This document discusses social, personal, and family disorganization. Social disorganization occurs when there is a breakdown of social systems, institutions, and relationships due to a lack of consensus, individualism over community interests, or changes in social equilibrium. It can be caused by psychological, cultural, biological, physical, social, and value-related factors. Personal disorganization refers to a breakdown in institutional and group control leading to an unbalanced and one-sided individual. It happens in stages and can be caused by biological, environmental, and social crises factors. Family disorganization involves tensions, non-harmonious functioning, and broken intimate relationships between family members due to personal, social, cultural factors like disparities, poverty, occupational

1. SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION
Presented by: Gunjan Kandpal
Lecturer

2. MEANING
 Social disorganization means breaking or
dismantling or dispersing of the social
system, social institutions and social
relationships.
 It increases when there is no general
agreement and individuals define the
important interests of the society in purely
individualistic terms.
 When there is a change in the equilibrium of
forces or a breakdown of the social structure.

3. CAUSES OF SOCIAL
DISORGANIZATION
 Psychological factors include the social processes like
imitation, conflict, compitition, accommodation.
 Cultural factors: maladjustment in the existing
institutions, cultural lag, cultural conflict.
 Biological factors : include population explosion, inter-
racial marriages, inter caste marriages.
 physical factors include storms, earthquake, sea
currents, tsunami etc.
 Social Problems include unemployment., corruption.
 Degeneration of values includes wars, criminality
suicides etc
 Others causes includes confusion of roles, lack of
proper planning etc

4. PERSONAL DISORGANIZATION
 Personal disorganization refers to
breakdown in institutional control and
group consensus.
 A disorganized person is one who is
unbalanced, uncoordinated and one
sided.

5. STAGES OF PERSONAL
DISORGANIZATION
 First Stage: In the first stage there is a
problem and the individual attempts to find
a solution. But if the individual fails to find
a solution, he loses his stability.
 Second Stage: If there is no satisfactory
solution , the individual will enter the
second stage of disorganization. Here the
individual remails permanently unadjusted.
 Third Stage: This stage lead to insanity or
suicide.

6. CAUSES OF PERSONAL
DISORGANIZATION
 Biological factors: These include difficulties
arising out of funtional disorder e.g physical
illness, injury, mental deficiencies.
 Environment factors: This includes
situations like economic distress,
confussion.
 Insecurity of status and role: when there is
lack of recognized and accepted status this
further results in disorganization.
 Social Crises: It include loss of property ,
death of bread winner etc.

7. FAMILY DISORGANIZATION
 Family disorganization include any type of
non- harmonios functioning within the
family.
 Family disorganization thus comprises not
only the tentions between husband and
wife but also between the siblings and
parents and children and husband and wife.
 When the intimate relationships between
the family members breaks down.

8. PERSONAL CAUSES
 Disparities in temperament,
attitudes, habits, social status etc
which often make the marriage
unpleasant.
 Clashing tempraments.
 Philosophy of life
 Personal Behaviour Patterns
 Psychopathic personalities

9. Social and cultural factors
 Sheer poverty
 Business Reverses
 Economic independence of the wife
 Occupational tensions
 Difference in cultural background
 Disparity in age
 Ill- health
 Parent child relationship
 Interference of in-laws