1. depression: 

depression is not a social problem, but it can be caused by what we face a society. depression attacks us individually not as a society. we cannot convince the government to spend and take actions into addressing it, but awareness can be done. 

2. smash-and-grab: 

it is a social problem because the attackers are always out there to victimize people by grabbing and taking their personal belongings. one of the reasons why it is a social problems it is because lot of people are being negatively affected by this smash-and-grab. the cause of this social problem it can be unemployment because people are trying to get some sort of income. 

3. rape: 

 rape is a social problem because a lot of people  are getting affected by this social problem. many people have been raped and that messes up with their mental health for a very long time. even if someone in the society has never been raped it somehow becomes disturbing hearing that someone has been raped. The perpetrators do not even get sentenced or do not even get arrested. 

4. fast food: 

fast food is a social problem because people get to go through obesity and chronic diseases because. workers at the outlet get underpaid and their work pressure is too much. some religions think that it is very cruel to slaughter animals just to produce fast food. so fast food it is a social problem since lots of people are being negatively affected. 

5. HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS is a social problem because a number of people being infected keeps on increasing every year. some people get sick because of HIV/AIDS to a point that people become absent in the workplace, and the business becomes slow because someone need to cover that person's work.