Contemporary Social Issues Faced by Elderly People

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Contemporary Social
issues

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
PROJECT PLAN.............................................................................................................................6
REFERNCES:..................................................................................................................................7
Books and Journals:................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Sociology is the study that is related to the human mind and society. It is very important
for every individual that they should understand the concept of sociology (Scasta, Hennig and
Beck, 2018). It is the study in which a person or group of person can understand the relationship
of human behaviour and society. There are many issues that occur in society such as elderly,
surveillance, etc. in the society that should be resolved by understanding them. In this essay it
covers the issues that faced by elder people in the modern world.
MAIN BODY
Sociology is the study of society and human behaviour. Whereas sociological
perspectives is the methodology is the application of humanistic and scientific approaches which
assist in understanding of human behaviour. It is necessary for a good society that they should
understand the human mind. There are many sociological perspectives are present in order to
understand the behaviour and nature of society and human. Sociological perspectives are
Interactionalism, Marxism, Collectivism, and Functionalism. These are important which assist in
better understanding of social issues (Moody and Sasser, 2020). Human are the part of society
and that's why it is important that they should understand the concept of sociological
methodology. Sociological methodology is very helpful in understanding that society is a
product that is temporary which can be changed by people if they are change because society
makes by people. It is analysed that it assists in making better lifestyle of every person that live
in the society. But one thing is that it is not easy to understand the behaviour of human beings
because every person has different kind of nature and perception. It is not easy to change their
perception.
In the society, there are number is issues are running out of them one important issues
that affect the society quality is elderly. That means the problem of ageing. It is analysed that
there are number of problems that faced by elder people in the society that should be solve so
that quality of society can be make better. It can be more understand with the help of using one
sociological perspectives i.e. conflict theory (Bone and et. al., 2017). According to conflict
theory, it is analysed that elder people face many problems in the society such as financial
insecurity, ageing population, etc. As per this theory, it stated that elder people are get more
struggle as compared to younger ones because of many issues such as they are not able to