Social Problem and It's Theories
CORRUPTION
Evolutionary theory: One of the social problems that Philippines has been facing today is corruption. It’s been a major problem of the country since years ago. Corruption is as old as human history. But when was the concept of corruption started? In my opinion, corruption has started when people have organized themselves into groups, and that groups were headed by leaders and those leaders became powerful and began to abuse the authority they have. We, people chose leaders that became corrupted. Government officials became greedy as they started to take what supposed for their countrymen. And corruption has been continuing nowadays. As a citizen who grew up in a corrupt country, I believe that we tolerate a certain amount of corruption from leaders as long as there isn’t too much. As people continues to tolerate it, people stop seeing the point of cooperating to stand that matter. And the corruption remains. It is natural for every state that there is a corrupt official, but then also natural for us to take such actions like strikes or rallies which I believe that are very ineffective. That’s why corruption still continues.
Structural Functionalism: People do find their job, get paid, and reduced their salary because of taxes. And suddenly some of the taxes go to the pocket of some officials. Some people don’t complain, they just continue their lives. Even a person works hard in a certain place and not given proper benefits from the government because of corruption, he will not complain. He will just continue to work for his survival. He will not go to Mendiola to Malacanang for a revolution. For he believed that corruption is usual, he will mind himself rather that to die from a strike. In any cases corruption has a little positive side, citizens became aware to it. Because they knew that corruption causes poverty. Due to awareness, people now became practical and economical. When economical people and corrupt officials collide, society became
Evolutionary theory: One of the social problems that Philippines has been facing today is corruption. It’s been a major problem of the country since years ago. Corruption is as old as human history. But when was the concept of corruption started? In my opinion, corruption has started when people have organized themselves into groups, and that groups were headed by leaders and those leaders became powerful and began to abuse the authority they have. We, people chose leaders that became corrupted. Government officials became greedy as they started to take what supposed for their countrymen. And corruption has been continuing nowadays. As a citizen who grew up in a corrupt country, I believe that we tolerate a certain amount of corruption from leaders as long as there isn’t too much. As people continues to tolerate it, people stop seeing the point of cooperating to stand that matter. And the corruption remains. It is natural for every state that there is a corrupt official, but then also natural for us to take such actions like strikes or rallies which I believe that are very ineffective. That’s why corruption still continues.
Structural Functionalism: People do find their job, get paid, and reduced their salary because of taxes. And suddenly some of the taxes go to the pocket of some officials. Some people don’t complain, they just continue their lives. Even a person works hard in a certain place and not given proper benefits from the government because of corruption, he will not complain. He will just continue to work for his survival. He will not go to Mendiola to Malacanang for a revolution. For he believed that corruption is usual, he will mind himself rather that to die from a strike. In any cases corruption has a little positive side, citizens became aware to it. Because they knew that corruption causes poverty. Due to awareness, people now became practical and economical. When economical people and corrupt officials collide, society became