How can i define social evils?

Question

How can i define social evils?

Answer 1

in a word?   Bad.

Lol, sorry.

A social evil is anything harmful to a society or its citizens, as alcoholism, organized crime, etc.

Answer 2

In the smallest unit, social evil exists when a person's behavior causes harm to another. One should be responsible for one's own existence, while respecting the boundary of others. In this way, if he doesn't harm anyone, he is free to do whatever he wants.

Answer 3

This question is too broad..it assumes that we all have the same standards..what some call social evil someone else may call useful or generally good ...

example..... busing  I would call that originating from evil  however some say it's a great thing .

Answer 4

I don't know if it's the same thing you're looking for, but in philosophy class we call it moral evils and it's anything a person does to cause suffering (pain, sadness, etc) to someone else.

Answer 5

Easy. Get a camcorder, go out in traffic, then in public, at a mall, anywhere, and just press Record.  Do it in a few places, spend about 10 minutes in each,

that will give you all the definition you need. :-)

Answer 6

Social evils are things outside of appropraitely accepted social behaviors.  

For example, in a sociology class we were studying this and a teacher showed pictures of different cultures & their clothing, their body piercings, their lip plates, a stick through the nose,etc.  and asked the class what we saw.  A lot of people looked and said that those were examples of social evils. I disagreed.  I told the instructor that they were pictures of different cultures and not "social evils" for that culture.  

These pictures would be considered social evils for our culture because it is not "socially acceptable" to pierce your lip and have a plate in it so that it extends out 3 to 5 inches.  It is not "socially acceptable" to have these things done to your body.  

The same as a socially evil person is someone who does not do appropriate social behavior such as a serial rapist, a person who views or films child p**n, a bank robber, etc.  Those are all considered social evils in American society.  - The question remains is are you talking about social evils in general or are you talking about specific social evils your average person does during the day? (i.e. cutting someone off in traffic, flipping someone off in traffic, hanging up the phone on someone, yelling at your child at the top of your lungs in public) - those all are also considered social evils as well.