Social problem

A social problem was a condition or behavior that negatively affected a large number of people and was widely recognized as an issue that needed to be addressed.

Howard Clark said to Jean-Luc Picard, "First contact was made by a Klingon expedition seventy years ago. Since then, the new technology has been available to the Ventaxians. They simply are not interested in it. Virtually no social problems to be found on this planet, In fact, I would have described their society as idyllic until--" (TNG: "Devil's Due")