Problem
Limited community responsibility of adults
Nature:
It is the responsibility of adults to set standards and establish community values. When outmoded societal structures continue functioning, the adult population, whose responsibility it is to bear the burden of such structures, find their traditional values collapse. They lose their vision of the relationship between concrete local tasks and wider responsibilities, focusing on parochial and nationalistic concerns and with a diminished view of community responsibility; this leaves them no way of maintaining deep-seated common values. Broader Problems:
Unshared mutual responsibilityUnderdeveloped community leadershipDisengagement of citizens from community activities Narrower Problems:
Inadequate adult guidanceStatic and superficial adult values Related Problems:
Parochial national interestsParalysis of elders faced with the futureDenial by old people of the significance of the pastDisorientation of youth in a culturally turbulent environment Aggravates:
Loss of cultural heritageSocial disaffection of the youngSocial disaffection of the young Strategies:
Cultivating skills in community responsibilityLimiting community responsibility of adults Subject(s):
Society → Adults??Society → Communities??
Innovative change → Appropriateness??
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
14.03.1997 – 00:00 CET