Social disorganization take place when an individual or member within a group do not fulfill his responsibilities. As discussed earlier each individual within a group have status and roles associated with it if he/she has failed to perform those responsibilities it will result in social disorganization. Social system is the interdependence of functional social institutions. If one institution fails to fulfill its obligations, it will disorganize the whole social system. For the smooth functioning of social system. It is necessary for each and every unit to fulfill their obligations and responsibilities. Any group, institution and social system cannot function smoothly until it’s all units function properly.
Family get disorganized when one of the parent leave the home. Or if parents get divorce, it will have impact on the other family members the rules and regulations will change, due to the disturbance children will not fulfill their responsibilities. It will change the entire structure of the family. If workers go on strike for any reason the production of the factory will suffer. Factory will be disorganized because it depends on the workers. Without workers factory cannot carry out its functions production will suffer and the profit margin of factory will decline. We can say that factory will disorganize. Any group or institution will be disorganized if its members and units do not work properly.
Social disorganization can occur due to, the new development in the social system. Introduction of new element in the social system can break the bond between old norms, relationships and units. Society is in ever changing state but the change is gradual. If the change is abrupt and members of the social group are not ready to adopt then, it might create disorganization. Conflict between the units and members can also result in disorganization. Hebert spencer define social system with analogy of living organism. Different social institutions of society are like organs of living organism if one organ stop functioning it will disrupt the function of body. Therefore if one part of social system stop working it will disorganize the social system.
Disorganization of social system create many social problems in society. Such as, poverty, crime, drug abuse, illiteracy, unemployment etc. all these problem are associated with one another. Like there is association between the different institutions of social system, same goes with social problems. If government fails to provide education it will increase illiteracy rate in the country. Which will lead to unemployment and unemployment may result in crimes and poverty. Educational institutes should provide quality education to the member of society. Government and economic institution should provide job opportunities for the educated people.
If each and every institution plays its role, social problems will diminish from society itself. The main cause of social problems are the disorganization of institutions which leads to the disorganization of social system. Disorganized social system create many social problems in the society. Which disrupt the peace and order of the society. Social problems hinder the progress of society. Those societies which are disorganized are not progressive and cannot compete with organized society in any endeavor.