What is social maladjustment?

Question

What is social maladjustment?

Answer 1

define??

Answer 2

on an individual level, its gotta do with poor social skills. for example, difficulty interacting with others, making friends or maintaining meaningful relationships.

on a broader (societal) level, this type of individuals will have problems understanding and abiding to societal norms. for example, avoiding taboo topics at certain occassion.

generally, social maladjustment appear as inappropriate and difficulty adhering to the "norms".

Answer 3

Someone who is at odds with society and doesn't fit it.  Might just as well be talking about me (lol).

Answer 4

Socially maladjusted students are often seen as predators with typical emotionally disturbed students viewed as prey; placing these students in the same classrooms is a nightmare for both the emotionally disturbed students and the staff.

Answer 5

Someone who has a regular pattern of violating societal norms with truancy, substance abuse, a perpetual struggle with authority, is easily frustrated, impulsive, and manipulative.  It doesn't have to be all of the above, but it generally includes most of them.  So basically, someone that not only refuses to conform to basic norms (which isn't a bad thing at all) but does it in away to be disruptive and not to be an individual.

So.....

Having pink hair, piercings, and listening to EMO rock = OK

Having pink hair, doing drugs, skipping school, disruptive, etc = NOT OK

Answer 6

Some people cannot adjust themselves with the society.  That state of mind is called maladjustment.

Ex:  Terrorists...