“Social Problems” is
considered as sub-discipline of Sociology. Sociology is a very vast field, encompassing
such sub-disciplines as the sociology of family, sociology of crime and
delinquency, sociology of education, sociology of environment, etc.
Drug abuse, alcoholism,
ageing, population explosion, corruption, AIDS, inequality, child abuse,
terrorism, pollution, poverty, environmental degradation, unemployment and
crime against women are not individual problems but affect the society at
large. An individual problem is one which affects one individual or one group. 
Its
resolution lies within the immediate milieu of the individual/group. Against this,
a societal issue is one which affects the society as a whole, or the larger
part of society.
The sociologist’s job is to understand the complexity of these
problems and their relatedness to social structure, to study the operation of
varied patterns of interrelationships in the society and how people are
affected by them, and observe how social systems need to be reorganized and
restructured in dealing with them. 
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