Social Evil

Human nature is evil with motives behind everything, the lacking of care for others, and the taking advantage of others.

Communities play an essential role in the development of the self and learning about the stranger. Through communities, individuals are able to socialize and gain a greater understanding of each other. A community can be defined in many different ways based on every individual’s experience with it. Developing a strong community takes time. Some people, like Jeannette Walls, do not have the opportunity to develop strong communities throughout their childhood.

A community is a place where people around supposed to be able to live and thrive together. When one thinks of a community, the image that most likely is visualized is one of a place where each person lives harmoniously with all the other members of that community. While this may be the typical image of a community, it is not the realistic view. In reality communities can share both good and bad aspects. In Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf, and Todd Swanstrom make the argument that the place a person lives ultimately matters over all else; the place which a person lives effects the choices that that he/she makes and determines his/her ability to obtain a

My belief has always been that the very idea of social justice is evil. Justice is one of the greatest ideals ever to exist. It is the idea that what goes around, comes around, in a more technical term. It means that if you act just, in behavior and treatment, you will be treated accordingly, and that if you are a criminal, you will be prosecuted for your wrong-doing. Once you add a precursor to a concept inherently good, you run the risk of perverting the ideal. Correctness itself, the idea that there is falsehood, a difference between right and wrong, correct and incorrect, is a fantastic thing. It means that there is a difference between fact and opinion. Once you add political to it, it perverts it, making it as much an attempt at virtue

Personal behaviors are largely shaped by social pressures—this statement holds more as fact than as theory. Evidently, communities pose as a positive. Why else would they exist if they were not believed to be advantageous? Communities stand as collective forces much stronger than individual forces and additionally, communities exist as oases of social comfort helping one another express emotions and gain acceptance. These positive aspects are blatantly obvious, and there really is no need to further investigate these pros within communities. Instead, there should lie more concern around the proponents of communities that are not obvious: their deleterious effects on the individual. As great as they are, communities also strip away individuality

Councils helping making it easier for new people to adapted in to new local areas opening communities’ centres we can learn and be more productive in our daily lives

In communities, there are several factors that must be considered. Is there a need for change? Where is

Social injustice is any issue when unfair practices are being carried out in society. Social injustice effects many groups today, especially minorities. Societal isms are the prejudicial attitudes directed against groups that society identifies as “lesser”-less capable, less productive, and less normal.

What do you think about your neighbours? How do you feel about your schools? What do you think about your community? Community has always been a big part of our lives and it has been here since the day we were born. We might even live on the same street, but we grow up in different households and this results in many different views on communities. The many definitions of our community may include our home, our heritage, and even our religion.

According to the introduction of Better Together, Robert Putnam states in his book, Bowling Alone, that “over the last three decades involvement in civic associations…time spent with family and friends and neighbors, philanthropic giving, even simple trust in other people” (Putnam 4) fell at a rapid pace. He specifically asserts that these rates of social capital lowered “by 25 to 50 percent” (4) throughout those decades, which means that almost everybody in our society has been spreading apart from each other rather than working together to solve the growing issues of the world, and this phenomenon might continue unless we establish more social capital. Communities are also vulnerable to this occurrence, not only because they could collapse under poor leadership and distrust, but also because they could distance themselves from other communities. After all, Putnam claims in Better

The practicum project conducted for CONR 643P_B included an internship for 7 Cups of Tea (7COT), an online support service for individuals in need of social, mental and emotional support. Services were provided through the process of active and reflective listening in an anonymous computer-mediated setting. On the 7 Cups of Tea website, active listening provides a podium for providing support, fashioning a community and instituting a network of constituents dedicated to destigmatizing mental health and providing unbiased support to anyone in need.

2017). Although not the same concept as having familial support it is seen that those who have better relationships within their neighborhood have less depressive symptoms. “In addition to the physical aspect of one’s neighborhood, feelings of neighborhood belonging, and social cohesion is also associated with good mental health” (Stahl et al. 2017; 1065). It can be argued that community involvement and being mildly integrated with society led to a better quality of life for older adults with

Since at least 1982, the internet has provided a new venue for support group (John Schappi, 2012). Discussing online self-help support groups as the precursor to e-therapy, Martha Ainsworth notes that "the enduring success of these groups has firmly established the potential of computer-mediated communication to enable discussion of sensitive personal issues. For example Email, Usenet and internet bulletin boards have become popular methods of communication for peer-to-peer self-help groups and facilitated support groups. Support groups have long offered companionship and information for people coping with diseases or disabilities, and online situational oriented groups have expanded to offer support for people facing various life circumstances, especially those involving personal and cultural relationships (Van Brunt, 2008).

These Ecological concepts demographics, competition, segregation and integration can help social workers analyze a community in terms of its fairness and support to all of its members. One of the strengths gathered from this perspective is that it allows for the issues to be identified and it implements change as needed. The Human Ecology perspective can help frame subsequent questions like how to change the situation. It has concern for the individuals within the community but its main focus is on the environment. With the focus on the environment it will be better to determine why people behave the way they do. One of the concepts of this perspective is also one of tis strengths and that is when integration occurs. Members will come together and function as a whole. However, this theory does have its weaknesses. For one when the demographics mentioned are becoming unlivable members will compete and segregate themselves. This causes the community to always be in chaos. Viewing communities from a Human Ecology perspective it provides a useful assessment mechanism for understanding why people act as they do within the context of the larger community macro system.

In previous community development research, Bhattacharyya (2004) finds that locality has been used as a proxy for community development. He argues that it is becoming analytically irrelevant