The needs of people is a complex topic that sociologists have been researching for quite some time. And this is really interesting, because our desires are often the root cause of various acts. By studying this issue, it is possible to identify causal relationships in human behavior.
There are many ways to classify needs. Even a school course in social science today involves the study of the Maslow Pyramid. It allows you to clearly structure all the needs of people.
The meaning of this scheme is to divide all human desires into spiritual, biological and social. All of them are characterized in a certain way. The pyramid is schematically depicted in the shape of a triangle, divided into three parts. It is based on the biological needs of people. These include, first and foremost, the need to satisfy feelings of hunger and thirst. In addition, the biological need of a person is the need for clothes and a roof over his head, the desire for procreation, and so on.
Only by satisfying the needs listed above, a person thinks about social. Only one who is full, shod, dressed and has the ability to sleep in his own house will strive to communicate with other people. The social needs of people is the need for public recognition, for success in social activities.
Interestingly, for some individuals, communication with others is much more important than primary needs. This, however, is rare.
At the highest, third level are spiritual needs. This means that, roughly speaking, after eating his lunch and chatting with a friend on the phone, the individual begins to feel that he wants to create, engage in self-development, and enlighten. These are the highest human needs, which are manifested only in certain conditions; for this, “soil” is needed.
But exceptions are possible here. After all, history knows many examples when artists for the last money bought canvas and paints instead of buying bread.
There are other ways to categorize human needs. For example, they can be spiritual and material. First of all, each of us needs hearty food and warm clothes. However, along with this, we want the dish to look beautiful and the clothes to match our aesthetic taste. Thus, material needs can be both natural and cultural.
At the same time, two large groups of needs - spiritual and material - are also very closely related. For example, to write music, you must have musical instruments, paper, pens.
Needs can be classified in several other ways. For example, they can be:
- Individualized. In other words, this is what is required at a certain moment by a particular individual. For example, now someone is dreaming about eating strawberries or going to bed for 2 hours.
- Group. The goal is sometimes important for several people at once. For example, in one of the houses the heating was turned off. All residents will be interested in the administration repairing the heat supply system.
- Important for the whole society. This, for example, is pure water. The problem of pollution of the world is incredibly relevant today. For this reason, everyone is interested today in making the water fit for consumption.
As you can see, human needs can be very different.
