interact with one another, which help to weaker strict rules of the caste system. The societies problems in India, which will be use to describe the case of the dream
theory in The God of Small Things are concerning with.
2.6.1 Social problems
The characterization of the social problem at least has the advantage of calling our attention to the important part played by interest groups small or large in defining a
discrepancy between standards and actually as sufficiently significant to constitute social problems. According to Manis 1976:25, social problems are those social
conditions identified by scientific inquiry and values as determinant to human well being. As exemplified in Manis’s definition, the social problems focus on threatening
or harmful conditioning the empirical world. From this perspective, the social problems exist independently of public awareness or social concern to this condition.
There are two elements of social problems as an aspect of society that people are concerned about and would like to change:
a. A social problem begins with an objective condition, some aspects of
society that can be measured or experienced. b.
A social problem is subjective concern as a significant number of people have about the condition.
There are different kinds of social problems to be distinguished in terms of the different groups involved in the social process of defining the phenomena as social
problems. They can be problems, which involve popular concern arising from mass experiences like caste system, racism, gender problem, etc, and problem, which
involve the interest of small humanitarian groups like divorce as family problem.
2.6.2 Discrimination treatment
In discrimination problem found in the novel, the author thinks most of them are related to gender problem. Manis 1976: 32 states further that gender identifies the
relation between women and man. Gender relation varies from place to place and over time, they often change in response to altering circumstances. In other hands
gender roles may defined as the kind of activities that society determines to be appropriate for individuals processing their kind of external genital. The society,
however tend to assign some classes of social roles to male individual and some classes of social roles to female. If we see Indian society, only male children are
cared because they are inheritance of a family. Men are more honored than women, and then I think social discrimination gradually deprives their identities.
2.6.3 Caste system
