Social Problems Require Civic Engagement
Success comes from civic engagements. Civic engagements make a difference to society and individuals who are in need throughout a social structure. Social problems require civic engagement because civic engagement reduces the impact of a social problem through the promotion of a better quality of life. Civic engagements promote a better quality of life from framed principles, plans, and actions that contain a solution and a targeted outcome. The impact of a social problem is the possible recycled anti-prosocial behavior, poor cognitive behavior, bad decision-making skills that lead to poverty, crime, abuse, violence, illiteracy, unemployment, and mental health issues. Social problem influences social, political, and economic growth and
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Society has the power to establish a higher overall quality functioning lifestyle in a system where human behavior does not get threatened. The art of civic engagements with good intention and purpose form a fixation that challenges the cultivated cycle of abuse. Therefore, we have a civic responsibility to address abuse because it improves the quality of life by individuals. Kelaher et al. (2014) brings to light how art cultivated human behavior in article “Evaluating Community Outcomes of Participation in Community Art: A Case for Civic Dialogue.” According to Kelaher et al. (2014), “the arts have a capacity to evoke intense reflection and to cause citizens to confront issues and concerns that might otherwise be avoided … The arts can create opportunities for individual and communal introspection that may impel a testing or rethinking of fundamental assumptions”(p. 134). Kelaher et al. (2014) suggest the stimulation is vital in overcoming community concerns such as social problems. However, the type of stimulation is the responsibility of society due to assistance in the development of human welfare. For example, bad stimulation can have a poor outcome that is recycled back into the community. Some civic responsibilities are prevention, assistance, and education through the means of strategic planning with fundamental principles for implementing action, which stimulate healthy outcomes based on
Society has the power to establish a higher overall quality functioning lifestyle in a system where human behavior does not get threatened. The art of civic engagements with good intention and purpose form a fixation that challenges the cultivated cycle of abuse. Therefore, we have a civic responsibility to address abuse because it improves the quality of life by individuals. Kelaher et al. (2014) brings to light how art cultivated human behavior in article “Evaluating Community Outcomes of Participation in Community Art: A Case for Civic Dialogue.” According to Kelaher et al. (2014), “the arts have a capacity to evoke intense reflection and to cause citizens to confront issues and concerns that might otherwise be avoided … The arts can create opportunities for individual and communal introspection that may impel a testing or rethinking of fundamental assumptions”(p. 134). Kelaher et al. (2014) suggest the stimulation is vital in overcoming community concerns such as social problems. However, the type of stimulation is the responsibility of society due to assistance in the development of human welfare. For example, bad stimulation can have a poor outcome that is recycled back into the community. Some civic responsibilities are prevention, assistance, and education through the means of strategic planning with fundamental principles for implementing action, which stimulate healthy outcomes based on