What are Social Problems

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--- Social Problems ---

Social problems are situations or activities that can momentarily disrupt or permanently damage a society and it's people.
They are also said to be undesirable conditions or behavioural patterns in the society that needs to be addressed.

For an issue to qualify as a social problem, it must have injurious consequences on the society, affecting the society as a whole and often needs collective effort to solve them.

--- Social Problems in my Community ---

Below is a list of the top 10 social problems plugging my community, we still have much more but this are the top ten from my own perspective.

_{• High Unemployment Rate creates idle minds.
• Poverty has been the root of many vices.
• Corruption push people extra miles for wealth.
• Cultism has become the order of the day.
• Advance fees fraud has become an identity.
• Area boys syndrome feeds the unemployed.
• Terrorism is used for communication.
• Drug Abuse becomes ready for stress.
• Domestic Violence in two out of every three homes.
• HIV/AIDS is sweeping across the landscape of our society.}

Each problem being created or made worst by another problem all being interested in one way or another.

--- Causes of select 5 ---

Corruption
Defined as dishonest or fraudulent conduct engaged by those in authority, often involves abuse of entrusted power, misappropriation, bribery and some other forms.
When funds intended for community development is routed into someones privet pocket, founds that could have created infrastructure, firms, factories where people could get gainful employment. Unemployment leads to poverty.
Causes:
• Greed
• Impunity,

Poverty
Lacking what it takes to have the minimum standard of living. Which involves the inability to provide basic necessities like food, clothing and shelter. Corruption flourish when leaders have poor subjects. With very little or no formal education or skill, they can easily be used as thugs for a little fee. Others will resort to robbery or fraudulent activities locally known as 419.
Causes:
• Corruption
• Unemployment
• Financial illiteracy
• Poor basic infrastructures,
• Inequality
• Social injustice

Advance fees fraud
Schemes, scams and counterfeiting becomes the main source of income for many who channel their intelligence towards making profit from unsuspecting poor and desperate members of the community and beyond, resulting in a bad reputation for everyone, like the Hushpuppi incident.
Causes:
• Poverty
• Unemployment
• Desperation
• Greediness

Area boys syndrome
With out skill and any formal education, some young men roam the streets, too proud to beg they engage a subtle form of rubbery locally called "obtaining" they corner someone they feel should have money and ask for alms, if the money is given generously they are likely to take it but if the person is not ready to give, it turns into a rubbery.
Causes:
• Poverty
• Unemployment
• laziness

Cultism
Belonging to a cult is gradually becoming a norm, they bully and terrorise the community, offering to protect it's members which has lead to more followers, some just join because they want to belong.
Causes:
• Dysfunctional homes
• illiteracy
• Insecurity
• Bad association

--- HIV/AIDS ---

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The spread of HIV/AIDS as a social problem deserves a category of it's own, it has risen and qualify to be described as a pandemic. HIV which stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a disease condition that attacks and destroys the immune system of a person, reducing the persons ability to fight off diseases/unfriendly bacteria or virus.

If this condition is not properly treated, it progresses to a worst stage known as AIDS which stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. At this stage of the disease, the immune system is totally deficient making the person vulnerable to all infectious disease such that even minor infections can have terrible impacts on the person.

Most sufferers get HIV through sexual activities others got infected due to sharing of infected needles, syringes, or other body piercing materials. This is so because the disease is spread through contact with body fluids from an infected person.

Practice that puts us at risk
• Transfusion of infected blood.
• Transplant of an infected organ.
• Circumcision with unsterilized blades.
• A Blood treaty/pact with an infected party.
• Getting a tattoo with an unsterilized machine.

To protect oneself from becoming infected, sexual abstinence comes as the first option, fidelity is recommended for married persons. For sexually active persons who are not married, avoiding unprotected sexual activities.
Avoid the above mentioned Practice that could puts us at risk.

--- Social problem affecting: ---

Individual

• HIV and AIDS as consequences of promiscuity will have great effect on the individual both physical and psychological effects leading many to consider suicide.

• Becoming addicted to a drug holds the person under the influence of the drug and the addiction is hard to break.

Family

• Dysfunctional homes made up of members working against one another but still living in the same house with lots of disputes.

• Divorce leading to plenty of single parent families, with children growing in the care of single mothers and not having a balance form of discipline from both parents.

Society

• Fraudulent activities has affected Nigerians as a community, giving a bad reputation that follows every Nigerian everywhere they go. As Nigerian, we are pre-judged as guilty untill proven innocent.

• Corruption has created a community of unemployed people who think they must act smart to survive Poverty leading to dishonest behaviour and conflicts.

--- Examination Malpractice: ---

examination malpractice is yet another social problem involving examinations. It involves any illegal or dishonest activities that goes against the rules of an examination often aimed at cheating.

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Some Forms of examination malpractice

Giraffing:
Stretching to look into another student's work to copy what they wrote.

Inscription
In Nigeria it is called microchip or brain support, it involves writing something on any body part, on a small pieces of paper, the table or the walls and referring to it during the examination.

Impersonation:
This form of **Forms of examination malpractice in Nigeria is often referred to as "machine". The machine here is that person who impersonates an exam candidate and sits in for an examination for the impersonated candidate.

Exam leakage:
In this case, someone in the examination body is paid to give out the the examination question ahead of time.

Others involves being paid to adjust the score after the examination. Some candidate will pay to get their script and continue the examination at a latter time, while some will go for special centers where there is no invigilation.

--- Conclusion: ---

Social problems are often hard to address, the whole community will have to work together to start solving it and the problem is inter linked with other problems