Elders as a human resource to a solve a social problem

            Resources include persons, organizations or equipments used to improve the life quality.  Elders have the experience and wisdom that other societies can benefit from.  Rather than neglecting them and making them depend on others, the engagement of elders can help in the survival and flourish. They can be the people that provide unity with tradition and join the conflicting agencies for special causes.  The elders are the most growing group and the underutilized resource. Humanity covers the problems that the elders can address.  In the use of the market economies where tasks must have monetary values, the contributions of the elderly to the society are not valued.  Re-involvement of the elderly into the society can save humanity from involuntarily adjusting into a technology driven society.  This makes the futurists predict an economy of robots that does work for each other.  Investing a little and involving the elderly in the communities can raise the health and fitness of the elderly and improve the existence of the community (Crone, 2011).  

            People experience social problems individually.  For instance, people are poor and unemployed.  We have heard of these persons and it is hard to take their problems as their own and blame their hardships.  Sociology has a different approach on this; it stresses that personal problems root from problems coming from the society itself.  On an elderly person approaches the use of social imaginations to understand the current social problems.  They stress the unemployment issue.  An elder person argues that unemployment can be due to the laziness or lack of good manners. This means that employment can be as a personal problem.  When people are not working, it becomes a community issue because the structure of the opportunities has failed.  The elders consider the economic and the political issues on solving a problem like this in the society (Crone, 2011). 

            Eating disorders is another social problem that the elderly explains.  They consider the eating habits as individual problems that basis from deficiency and lack of confidence. This explanation is clear though it does not aid us in accepting why people have individual difficulties that cause consumption conditions.  For instance in America, women have the highest eating disorders. This gender difference allows the elderly solve social problems on answering the questions on what it means by being a woman in the American community and what makes the eating disorders common (Crone, 2011). 

            Describing the disorders, the elderly looks at the beauty conditions for women and focusing on their slender body.  They continue to explain that if the cultural condition does not occur, less American females would suffer from the eating illnesses than on the current situation. However, because it now exists and even if every woman with a consumption condition cures, others would still develop the habit unless this cultural standard is changed.  They explain showing that eating disorders are public issues and not personal problems. In addition, they argue that Americans think that communal difficulties such as scarcity and joblessness root from individual faults of those experiencing the problems but not from physical problems in the society.  They claim that people should think of communal difficulties as individual rather than community matters and this will help solve the problems (Crone, 2011). 

            To help acknowledge the sufferer beliefs, the elderly considers why the poor children in urban areas learn little in schools.  They say that the parents of the children do not care about the education of the children and thus fail to teach them good learning habits and discourage them in taking schooling seriously.  This answer applies to some parents but does not engage an important reason that is the shape of the American countryside schools, which they say, are overcrowded and have poor learning equipments. In order to advance the schooling in urban areas, the elderly decides for school improvement and not only doing the parent promotion (Kreuter, De Rosa, Howze, & Baldwin, 2004).  

            This solution shows that blaming the victim gives answers to the social problems that are dissimilar from those proven by a physical method of the blame scheme.  If the subject suffers the liability, people can devote their incomplete money to cover the particular failures of people who struggle from poverty and other problems.  If we rather put fault on the scheme, we can therefore emphasize our consideration on specific social problems that cause these hardships (Kreuter, De Rosa, Howze, & Baldwin, 2004). 

            The sociological approach of these problems suggests that the final approach needs to help us compact successfully with the social problems that people face daily.   In response to this, the elderly argues that a strong society that demonstrates a strong social connection and rules to effective socialization need to protect social order from engaging. Without a strong society as warned, social orders diminish and violence and other signs of social disorders arise.  They continue to claim that socialization helps people understand the societal rules and the need to oblige as people end up approving on the important values.  As a result, social integration helps us socialize and integrate us into the society improving our lives (Andersen& Taylor, 2008). 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference

Andersen, M. L., & Taylor, H. F. (2008). Sociology: Understanding a diverse society. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.        

Crone, J. A. (2011). How can we solve our social problems?. Los Angeles: Pine Forge Press.

Kreuter, M. W., De Rosa, C., Howze, E. H., & Baldwin, G. T. (2004). Understanding wicked problems: a key to advancing environmental health promotion. Health education & behavior, 31(4), 441-454.