What are the needs? In simple and understandable language, this is an objective need of a person for something that is necessary for him to carry out full-fledged life activities. Social needs include the need to express oneself, to communicate with other people, to be needed by someone, to have friends and comrades. A lot of things can be listed. But first things first.
About the inner sensations
In general, this topic is a favorite among many psychologists and sociologists. She was devoted to a lot of work. Take, for example, such scientists as Henry Murray or Boris Dodonov. Based on their work, many interesting conclusions can be drawn.
For example, what concerns social needs is the need for autonomy, independence and freedom. It is human nature to desire to get rid of the framework, if he has one. And many feel it. Another question: are they recognized? By the way, this is often due to material and practical interest.
All people also have hedonism. They feel the need for serenity and comfort - material, physical and spiritual. But again, many deny it. Although at the subconscious level they understand that one cannot escape from the desire to get as many benefits from life as possible. But their denial can be understood. After all, when a person cannot achieve what he wants (in this case, serenity and comfort), he seeks excuses and convinces himself that he does not need it.
Another social need is the need for orderliness and organization. It is difficult for a person to maintain harmony in the soul when chaos reigns around. And many more people need hoarding. When a person has a savings of something, he feels a pleasant reliability and confidence. That is why many people like to collect collections or count percentages that have āaccumulatedā from investments.
Negative
The assertion that human life is continuous positive and joy would be a hoax. Our reality is replete with negativity. Which also applies to human needs, however.
Social needs include the need for aggression. Many will ask: but how? After all, it usually contributes to destruction! Yes, but scholars such as Freud, Jung, Hartmann, Chris, Lorenz, Morris and Ardry saw aggression as an inherent and inalienable property of each of us. Someone claimed that it was connected with the "death instinct." Others considered aggression a spontaneous aspiration, as in other vertebrates.
So what's the point? The fact that aggression contributes to self-satisfaction, the emergence of a sense of self-superiority and rightness.
Good
But it is not all that bad. Social needs include a personās need for disinterested acts. In the desire to put someoneās interests above others. Maybe someone will argue. But worth considering. After all, everyone had a sudden, spontaneous desire to help this man. Just. This is it. And all is natural. After all, after this, a person feels himself noble, compliant, caring and necessary.
Communication
All of the above, of course, in one way or another applies to people around a person. But communication is already the main topic. Which concerns the rest directly.
Social needs include the need for affiliation. That is, in creating a warm and trusting relationship with others. It is important for a person to share his feelings, emotions, thoughts and receive a response.
Also, everyone needs to be at least sometimes in the spotlight in order to impress and feel valuable. Here there is not even boasting or selfishness, but the desire to raise oneās authority in oneās own eyes.
Everyone still needs protection and support. No matter how much a person himself defends his interests, does not preserve his face, image, does not prove the correctness of his actions, he will become tired. His hands will drop. He will drown in it. And he needs the support of a loved one, as well as his fresh look and advice. Thanks to this, he will be able to avoid failures, convictions, shame or the obligation to reckon with others. And this, by the way, is also a need. Which affects the inner comfort of the individual.
Leadership
Social needs include the desire of a person to feel successful. A person is full when he realizes his own value and usefulness. If a person leads, keeps any process under control, dominates in one or another group of people, directs their behavior in a word, convinces of something, he feels knowledgeable and dominant.
From this follows the next need, which consists in the need to achieve goals, fulfill dreams and collect achievements. It was said above: a person is pleased to know that he has something accumulated. With achievements - the same thing. A simple example: a man earned himself an apartment, bought a car, a powerful phone, went on vacation to the sea, abroad. He lies on the beach, smiles and thinks: well done. He managed to achieve the desired. Perhaps he even got ahead of someone and did better. I bought a more expensive car or a better apartment. And he recognized his own significance, asserted himself. And this is very important for a person. Because all of the above is another reason to love yourself more. And self-esteem is not only the most important psychological characteristic, but also a need.
Activities
Social needs include the need for labor. After all, this is the only form of self-expression. And I mean not only work, but also in general everything, to the realization of which a person makes efforts.
A person, embodying his own merits and characteristics in work, gains public recognition. And it is affirmed due to this.
Labor is essentially a condition for maintaining a personās life. The activity of personality and distinguishes it from the animal world. Human activity requires physical and mental costs, applying which he realizes his consciousness.
The work is different. By the nature, efforts, intensity, sensations that he brings. Like the individuals themselves. But one thing is worth declaring with confidence: it is needed. A person can lie in front of the TV for a week, two, three, a month, six months. But then he gets tired of it. He will become tired of feeling like a worthless biological being outside this world. And he will want to do something.
Relaxation
Labor is important, but the need for rest is also related to social needs. Moreover, there are reasons for this both spiritual and physiological in nature.
So, the vital activity of the body is determined by the metabolism. And its intensity depends on the level of human activity. Hard work entails great nervous and energy costs. To restore resources and get rid of fatigue, you need to rest.
But! It is important to do it right. Passive rest is a dream. A person sleeps, wakes up, goes to work, returns, sleeps again. The consequence is routine, oppression, lack of desire to do something, since everything is the same. It is necessary to rest so that pastime brings emotions. Life is made for pleasure! A man must reward and delight himself. Then he will have a desire to carry out his activities, to achieve new heights and improve his social status.
The senses
All the previously listed needs should include romance, lyrical feelings, joy, sensual impressions and erotic relationships. This is necessary for a person both on an emotional and physiological level. Many scientists confirm this fact. Sigmund Freud, for example, said that there is only one sexual deviation. And this is the lack of sex.
Even in this category you can put the need for risk and overcoming danger. Based on this, a person develops an interest in the struggle and the manifestation of his strength, perseverance, fearlessness and skills. Many through this suppress their fears and compensate for failure, which is also important. After all, all of the above leads to pride in oneself.
And of course, a person needs a game. But this is precisely what the majority of our time lacks. People have become too serious. They forgot about carelessness, revelry, passion, fun, aimless behavior. And all this leads to the accumulation in the soul of gloom, oppression and sadness.
In the end
In conclusion, it is worth saying a few words about some important nuances that were not noted by separate attention. The desire to learn something new, to learn, to strive to be aware of some information, to share knowledge with others, to apply skills, to create, create, improvise, feel the benefits of the past day - all this and much more is directly related to social needs.
The need for food, shelter, quenching thirst, oxygen is natural. This is something that no one can live without. Therefore, needs were called natural. That's just social in nature are much more complex.
Well, the topic is not simple, but interesting. And as a conclusion, I would like to say: in no case should you limit yourself to any of the above. We have one life. And I would not want to regret anything at the end of it.