Understanding Individuals and Society Essay Plan

This document provides essay plans for two topics in the course 'Understanding Individuals and Society'. The first essay explores the impact of social media and digital technology on personal relationship quality, analyzing both positive and negative effects. The second essay examines the causes and consequences of child sexual abuse, drawing on psychological theories and evidence. These plans are designed to help students structure their essays and develop strong arguments.

Understanding Individuals
and Society

ESSAY 1: PLAN
Topic : Impact of using social media and digital technology on personal relationship quality
Paragraph 1 – Introducing about effects on personal relations quality while using social media
and digital technology. It involves the fact that use of social media and digital technology is
responsible beginning, maintaining and ending relationships (Furnham, 2015).
Paragraph 2 – Positive impacts
 It nurtures and expands relationships by improving communication & strengthening
connections of people through social networking sites.
 Digital technology remove gap between people, creating communities and make distance
relations more closer.
Paragraph 3 – Negative impacts
 It allows cyberbullying which is especially problematic for teenagers and it connects
dissatisfied, disgruntled and misguided people together that coordinate terrorist attacks
more possible (Sanford, 2017).
 People get addicted & distracted from their work and misuse of the same become really
dangerous for society.
Paragraph 4 – Concluding that social media and digital technology is helpful to make
relationships effective but it also impacts negatively on the same.
ESSAY 2: PLAN
Topic : Causes and consequences of child sexual abuse
Paragraph 1 – Introducing the causes and consequences of child sexual abuse drawing on
psychological theory & evidences.
Paragraph 2 – Causes & Consequences
 Child sexual abuse is kind of very secret crime and may be hide for a lifetime as they are
not much bold to share about the misshapen to anyone (Furth, 2017).
 Child sexual abuse will results into negative impacts on psychological & physical health,
relations with family and friends, faith, education and career.
Paragraph 3 – Psychological theories The Victim Precipitation Approach should be used to analyse condition of child through
signs, eye contact, gestures and words with proper evidence.

 Psychological Approach can be used to identify cause of child abuse by determining
personality profile of sex offenders and isolating motivations of abusers (Greene, 2017).
Paragraph 4 – Concluding that child sexual abuse impacts on their lives very drastically as it may
results into lifelong trauma which is not able to overcome.
REFERENCES
Books and journals

Furnham, A. (2015). Young People's Understanding of Society (Routledge Revivals). Routledge.
Sanford, N. (2017). Self and society: Social change and individual development. Routledge.
Furth, H. G. (2017). Young children’s understanding of society. In Issues in childhood social
development (pp. 228-256). Routledge.
Greene, R. R. (2017). Human Behavior Theory and Professional Social Work Practice. In Human
Behavior Theory and Social Work Practice (pp. 31-62). Routledge.