Brief Summary Of The Chapter On Helping

The chapter on ‘Helping’ is complex, because what is considered helping is subjective. There are many examples of individuals who prove to do the right thing in the situations they’re in, but is that helping? It’s definitely the right thing to do and better for society and those involved, but I feel like as humans we all need to have social responsibilities to do better for those around us and the planet we occupy and not justify it as helping, but understand it as a humanistic trait. Everyone participates in some degree of helping, whether it is assisting your elderly neighbor, helping a friend move, listening to someone who needs to be listened to, rescuing animals, et cetera. The textbook discusses how social scientists try to measure those likely to help, I see the measurement to be similar to measuring happiness, there’s an infinite amount of possibilities.

If I pulled the research, I’m sure it shows society’s overall happiness has declined significantly over the past 4 decades and one of the factors may be that we’re not helping each other as much as we should or as much as we once did. It’s no secret that we work longer hours and do so for less (income inequality over the past 40 years can be thanked). If we had more time, we could be more helpful. Also, we’re overwhelmed with people and organizations asking us for help. They want are time and MONEY, with so many on a global scale it is overwhelming and can cause one to be less enthusiastic about