Social Problems with suggested Educational Implications

1. Cristina Flor S. Manimtim
MPA Student

2. Social Problem
• (also called a social issue or
social ill)
• Refers to an issue that
influences and is opposed by
a considerable number of
individuals within a society.

3. • Individual problems
• Social problems
Affects
large
population
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5. Juvenile
• Deals with children below 21
years old who violates laws or
who fail to do what the law
requires

6. Delinquent
• Is one who committed an
offense against an individual
and is punishable under our
criminal justice system.
• Theft, sexual assault,
murder

7. Juvenile Deliquency
• It is anti-social, a menace to the
people’s welfare, different from
what is normal action, and
which serve as outlet of an
instrinctive urge.
• Performed usually by teen-
agers

8. 3 Types of Delinquents
• 1. Environmental delinquents-
occasional lawbreaker
• 2. Emotional Maladjusted
Delinquents- chronic lawbreaker
• 3. Psychiatric Delinquents- serious
emotional disturbances in the
family.

9. Contributory causes
Industrialization and urbanization
frustration
Emotional deprivation
Gangs or “barkada” of the wrong kind
Broken homes
Rejection (if youth is rejected, he also rejects society
and turns anti-social

10. Educational Implications
Those
enrolled in
school
should be
made to feel
that they are
part of the
school
Give every
child a small
responsibility
or a small chore
to be
responsible for
Provide a
warm
healthy
school
climate
Develop
worthwhile
values
Have
children
distinguish
between
right and
wrong
Teacher
should accept
all children
and not have
favoritism
Identify
children who
need held
and provide
this help
Check what
has been
accomplished
with children
and follow-
up from time
to time

12. Drug Addiction:
- State of periodic/chronic
intoxication detrimental to the
individual & society
- produced by repeated intake of
habit-forming drugs
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13. • Precipitating Factors:
- Curiosity & natural tendency to
experiment with drugs
- Disturbed domestic environment:
broken home, lack of communication
between parents & children
- Escapism from tensions &
frustrations
- Adoption of western life styles
- Ignorance about ill effects of drugs
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14. Educational Implications
The school should take up drug education and
impress evil effects of drugs
There should be surveillance against dope
pushers by school authorities
The teacher should be on the look-out for drug
addicts and report this to the parents
A child who is dope addict should not be treated
like a criminal but a patient who needs treatment
(psychiatric treatment or rehabilitation)

16. Different kinds of sex
problems
• increased student pregnancy
• extra-marital relations
• Incest – sexual intercourse between people
related by blood or marriage
• Wife-swapping
• Homosexuality – sexual feeling for the same
sex
• Nymphomania – uncontrollable sexual desire
• Prostitution – sale of sex for money

17. Causes of sex problems:
Influence of media where extra marital relations
and live-in arrangements of movie folks are
publicized
Invention of contraceptives lessens inhibition
Poverty is the main cause of prostitution
Breaking down of family discipline

18. Educational Implications
1. Sex education 2. Parents should
serve as good
moral
3. Emotional
development should
be sublimated
through arts
4. Instead of having sex
as an outlet, this energy
may be channelled to
athletics

20. • Poverty is the
state or condition
of having no
money to buy
goods and to
provide services
to satisfy one’s
basic needs.

21. Some Causes of Poverty
in the Philippines
• Neocolonial
•Graft and corruption

22. • Population Explosion
• Typhoons, fires, earthquakes,
floods
• Unemployment
• Government and politics

23. Educational Implications
On the part of the government, develop the natural resources of the
country
Develop the habit of thrift and save for a rainy day; spend wisely
Continue learning an improving for this is a competitive world
Prepare for a life work while young so that one can have a livelihood
later; develop as many skill as possible

24. Prostitution & Sexually
Transmitted Diseases

25. Types of Prostitution
• a. Female
prostitute
• b. Male
Prostitute
• c. Child

26. • Poverty
• Changes in environment
• Breakdown of inter family relations
• Lack of affection
• Illegitimacy
• Easy access to health and wealth
• Low IQ
• Low morale
Causes of Prostitution

27. Educational Implications
Parents and children should have some forms of sex
education
Very poor parents should be helped to earn a livelihood
so they will not sell their children
There should be curfew for children so that they will
not be seen in the streets after 6:00pm
Death penalty

28. Mail- Order Brides

29. Mail order bride
• is a woman who lists herself in
catalogs (online or otherwise)
and is selected by a man for
marriage

30. Reasons:
• Mail-order brides usually come from
poor families and they think they will
have a better life abroad
• Some want to have a good-looking
children
• Some feel that their status will be
raised with people of the white race
• Some girls are lazy and do not want to
work.

31. Results:
• May be incomapatible. Since
contracting parties do not have enough
person to person contact, they do not
know each other well.
o Different culture, different adjustment and
therefore unhappy.
• Love does not bloom overnight.
Without love, marriage cannot be
happy and lasting.
• No one to turn to if she is abused and
maltreated by husband.

32. Educational Implications
Filipina should not
accept proposal thru
advertisement/online
The girl should not
travel to the groom’s
country without
marriage in Philippines
The girl should try to
get information about
the groom through the
help of the embassy of
the foreign national

33. Employment Abroad

34. Cause:
• The lack of jobs in the Philippines ,
has encouraged many to seek
greener pastures, even at the
sacrifice of being separated from
their families
Low salary in Philippines

35. Result
• Philippines suffers a brain drain.
o As our doctors go to the US, making our schools,
a training ground for other countries to benefit
from our best products
• The nurses go to the US and Middle East are
sometimes exploited by their employers.
• Teachers accept domestic jobs, which is far below
their profession.
• Laborers go the Middle East where often they do not
get the wage that was promised to them.
• Entertainers go to Japan and are sometimes forced
into prostitution by illegal recruiters.

36. Educational Implications
The government
should protect its
citizens by
supervision of
recruiting agencies
and examination of
working contracts
There should be an agency
that should screen the so-called
entertainers before giving
travelling papers.
Application for jobs
abroad should be
through legal
recruiters and
government agencies

38. Cause:
• The communists, who are getting help
from abroad, want to control the
country.
• The rising cost of living, lack of jobs,
and poverty.
• Ambition and desire for power.
• Lack of strong knowledgeable
leadership has led many to be
disappointed and to lose confidence in
the government.
• Lack of unity among Filipino people.

39. Effect:
• Many Filipinos want to leave the
Philippines and settle in other countries.
• Many political leaders have their own
private armies.
• Some people take the law into their own
hands.
• Some join the communists on the excuse
that they do not care where their rice
come from as long as they get it.
• Graft and corruption exist even among
people.

40. Educational Implications
Universal compulsory education, since this is the best
safeguard of a democracy
Less politics, less talk, and more action and
implementation of policies and laws
Better selection of leaders to guide the country
Less members in the law-making bodies which will be a
big saving on the part of the government
Since, poverty is the root of all evil. Priority should be
given to projects that will earn and that will provide
jobs for many people.

41. The end…..