Ableism | Academic Integrity |
Access to Education | Addiction |
Ageism | Air Quality |
Algorithmic Bias | Animal Rights |
Arms Control | Artificial Intelligence Ethics |
Autonomous Weapons | Bullying |
Censorship | Chemical Pollution |
Child Labor | Child Welfare |
Chronic Disease | Civic Engagement |
Civil Liberties | Civility |
Climate Change | Conservation |
Consumer Debt | Consumer Protection |
Corporate Accountability | Corruption |
Cost of Education | Cost of Living |
Crime | Criminal Justice Reform |
Cronyism & Corruption | Cybercrime & Cybersecurity |
Debt Bondage | Deepfakes |
Disability Rights | Disaster Resilience |
Economic Disruption | Education Access |
Education Reform | Energy Transition |
Environmental Destruction | Environmental Justice |
Epidemics & Pandemics | Excessive Force |
Extinctions | Fair Competition |
Fiscal Responsibility | Food Deserts |
Food Quality | Food Security |
Foreign Aid | Foreign Policy |
Fraud | Freedom of Speech |
Geopolitical Conflicts | Globalization & Trade |
Government Spending | Gun Violence |
Healthcare Disparities | Healthcare Quality |
High Interest Lending | Homelessness |
Housing Affordability | Human Rights |
Hunger | Immigration |
Indigenous Rights | Individual Sovereignty |
Inflation & Deflation | LGBT+ Rights |
Labor Market Disruption | Living Conditions |
Loss of Biodiversity | Malnutrition |
Mental Health | Military Policies |
Minimum Wage | Minority Rights |
Misinformation | Modern Slavery |
Monopolies | Natural Disasters |
Nuclear Power | Nuclear Weapons |
Obesity | Ocean Dumping |
Overfishing | Parental Rights |
Pesticides | Plastic Pollution |
Police Accountability | Political Accountability |
Political Instability | Political Polarization |
Pollution | Poverty |
Prisoners' Rights | Privacy & Surveillance |
Public Health | Public Safety |
Public Security | Public Space |
Quality of Life | Racial Justice |
Racism | Recessions & Depressions |
Reforestation | Refugees & Migrants |
Regressive Taxation | Reproductive Rights |
Rights & Freedoms | School Choice |
Scientific Ethics | Sexism |
Social Inequality | Social Media & Health |
Social Security & Pensions | Social Stability |
Substance Abuse | Sustainable Energy |
Tax Avoidance | Tax Burden |
Technological Change | Technology Ethics |
Technology Risks | Terrorism |
Tobacco & Nicotine | Toxic Waste |
Trust in Government | Unemployment |
Urban Development | Urban Heat Islands |
Voter Suppression | Wage Theft |
War & Conflict | Wealth Gap |
Women's Rights | Workers Rights |
Working Conditions | Workplace Safety |
Social Justice Issues
Issues of fairness to people. This includes many forms of discrimination and its effects on people and communities. The central theme of social justice is the fairness of society towards individuals and community including the fairness of systems and majority groups towards minority groups. For this reason, social justice issues often center around rights and freedoms and how these are balanced with common interests.
Community Issues
Community issues are problems impacting the lives of people and communities such as poverty, crime and living conditions. This can extend beyond issues of fairness into problems that can be difficult to solve even if you're trying to be fair. For example, issues of disaster resilience in an area prone to natural disasters that require changes to the way cities and communities are built.
Global Issues
Issues that cross borders or that may require international cooperation to solve. This can include issues of compassion and human rights that span borders such as problems of hunger and malnutrition.
Economic Issues
Problems and risks related to markets and finances. This includes economic problems such as recessions and excessive inflation or unemployment. Economic issues can also consider problems of fairness such as regressive taxation, corruption, consumer protection and issues surrounding poverty such as the minimum wage.
Political Issues
Problems, risks and opportunities related to government, political processes and public policy. In practice, the term political issue is also used to denote issues that are politically contentious or that have the power to capture votes.
Environmental Issues
Environmental destruction and issues related to nature. This includes environmental justice and the impact of environmental problems on communities.
Contemporary Issues
Issues that are relevant to modern life or that are new issues driven by technological, social and economic change. This can also include old issues that are increasingly contentious in modern times.
Overview
Social issues are problems and injustices that impact people and communities. These include problems directly related to living conditions, opportunity, rights, freedoms, human dignity and mutual respect.
Summary
Social issues are problems, risks and challenges that impact the lives of people within a society. This is a broad concept that can include community, economic and political issues. Social issues are also concerned with social justice and the fairness of society to minority groups.
