Essays on Inequalities

Karen and Arjun understand that political ecology studies the complex relationships that exist between political, economic and social factors which influence environmental issues and changes. Therefore, political ecology majorly politicizes environmental issues and phenomena to bring about the aspect of costing and its benefits and how these affect environmental changes distribution. This field as received numerous contributions from various scholars who believe that the accumulation of resources or wealth is generally influenced by the interplay of economic exchanges and their implication on the environment. According to Karen Bakker in “Golden Road to Riches” she believes that the economic geography ...

Abstract

This brief essay studied the uninsured and the health care disparities they face. Essential Affordable Care Act provisions and their effects were studied. Critical factors affecting the health care of the uninsured were identified; these included race, ethnicity, income, socioeconomic status, culture, language and income. Several research studies concluded that while access to health care has improved, the quality of this care has not improved for the uninsured. Although the number of uninsured has been reduced dramatically since 2010, insurance costs continue to increase significantly. Failure of states to expand Medicaid benefits has limited uninsured patients’ health care options. ...

Mother Teresa belongs to the most outstanding personalities of the twentieth century, and her attitude could serve as an example for people all over the world. This great woman once said: “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone. Person to person”. In this simple and short quote, every human being could see a direction for improvement – in different realms, by various means and using an enormous number of resources available nowadays. Indeed, it is an implicit and undeniable part of human nature to long for affiliation, social interaction and being a part of a group. However, in the ...

American Public University

Poverty is defined as lack of access to the resources necessary for survival due to low level of income earnings in a household. The different countries have different thresholds for defining the poverty. UNDP accepts people who earn less than 1 dollar a day as the poverty threshold and the Millennium Goals of the United Nations aim at reducing the number of people earning less than 1 dollar a day (UNDP, 2017). Recently, sustainable economic development is discussed among the academicians and the professionals. Fast economic growth has been the main aim of many emerging economies in the last ...

Critical Analysis

As Delgado and Stefancic point out, the critical race theory (CRT) as held by most pragmatists and civil rights activists helps in explaining the issue of racism that is so entrenched in the American society’s legal, social, political, and economic systems (23). According to them, race is not a biological but a social construct which means that it is embedded in people as they interact with people from different racial backgrounds. Critical race theory also helps in explaining some of the historical racial injustices such as discrimination that people of color have had to go through for a ...

Violence against men and women alike is certainly something to be concerned about in global security and welfare, but gender-based violence (GBV) is a prevalent issue for countries all around the world. Throughout human history, women have been at a social, economic and political disadvantage as most of those spaces are dominated by men. Most gender-based violence occurs against women by men, often an extension of the varying levels of social and political power men feel they can exert over women to maintain power. In the matrix of gender-based violence, women are more vulnerable to violence by men due ...

Introduction

Health policy can be defined as a plan or decision combined with actions to achieve specific healthcare goals by implementing key strategies within the society (WHO, 2016). As per the World Health Organization (WHO), an explicit health policy is known to be associated with several success factors such as development of a vision for the future and establishment of key targets for the short and long-term. Health policies enable organizations, institutes, societies, and groups to define outline, propose new goals, and inculcate different roles across various healthcare sectors (Záliš, et al. 2016). Healthcare policies are known to unite ...

Discuss economic, political, and social structures as determinates of health

Economical structures The economic environment plays a significant role in influencing health outcome of Americans. Primary economic factors that determine health outcome are income levels, education, and the economic status of the nation regarding Gross Domestic Product. Americans living below the poverty line have lower life expectancy because of poor access to health care and the lack of adequate knowledge on diseases. Moreover, the indication of the socioeconomic status of a community determines the mortality and morbidity of that particular population. For example, Hispanic Americans and African-Americans record lower mortality rates than whites in the U.S. because they are ...

Abstract

Despite the improvement of the living standards and the establishment of health care systems in the twentieth century, many investigations have highlighted continuous inequalities in industrialized regions. In most cases, some people from certain geographical regions are discriminated against while accessing health care services. The discrimination also takes the social class route, where people from high social classes can access better health care services than people from low classes do. Therefore, it is necessary to come up with health care systems that can help to bridge this gap. The creation of Southern Region Health System has shown concern to ...

Career development plan

I started building up my career four years ago with a BA in Health and Social Care and later proceeded to further pursue an MA in public health. I gained a great interest to study public health after completing my coursework in people, places and inequalities and Health Promotion. The coursework is concerned with the general well-being of the community and public health. During my career development, I have worked with different types and groups of people from different departments and agencies. I have also worked as a clinic support worker set up in an NHS setting. I intend ...

Definition of Community-Identification and History

Jersey City is in the Hudson County of New Jersey State and it part of the New York metropolitan. It is the largest and the capital the City of Hudson County, and the second largest city in New Jersey. The history of the city runs back to the 17th century when it was inhabited by the Lenape people, an East Asian community that migrated to the Unites States. Jersey City acts as a transit center for manufacturing companies in New York due to the availability of the waterfront, and the population is highly mixed as a result of a ...

Introduction

Organizations, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, need to plan strategically so as to fulfill their mandate, achieve their mission, and create public value. Furthermore, strategic planning helps the leaders and managers of these organizations to be effective strategists so that they can satisfy their constituents or stakeholders. According to Bryson (2011), managers and leaders of these entities must exercise discretion when executing their duties, develop effective strategies to help them navigate the changing and the charged environment and must have a coherent and justified backing for their decisions. Effectively, they can only achieve such through strategic planning. The essence of ...

Poverty and Gender

The article “Gender is just one of many inequalities that generate poverty and exclusion” by Claire Melamed represents the author’s vision of the global gender inequality problems and its impact on poverty occurrence around the world. When discussing the evidence of dividing and uniting people around the world, the author emphasizes the inequality issues consideration within the millennium development goals (MDG) maintaining. The global political, economy and social leaders’ plans aimed at finding solutions regarding poverty, shortage and social inequality overcoming. However, despite the post-2015 debates, gender inequality and its direct impact on poverty are apart from the ...

Article Review

In her 2014 article entitled “What are health disparities and health equity? We need to be clear” for the bi-monthly, peer-reviewed journal Public Health Reports, Dr. Paula Brackman discusses the need for the healthcare sector to come to agreement on the meaning of health disparity and health equity. According to Brackman, a clear definition for both phrases is necessary for a number of reasons. First, clear definitions will facilitate a better development of healthcare objectives and targets, prioritizing and allocating resources, and evaluating progress in achieving healthcare goals. More specifically, clear definition of health disparity will allow healthcare officials ...

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Introduction For many centuries women were deprived of their natural rights to control their life and even body and yet the struggle for equal rights is still continuing. At some point, feminism acquired a negative connotation that people today associate with the fanaticism and misandry. It is quite difficult to explain why the movement that released so many women from their invisible prisons is criticized by the modern society. A lot of women have fought to overcome discrimination, prejudice, and stereotyping of womanhood by changing the laws, altering the views of the society, and fighting back their oppressors. In ...

Emerson’s discussion of how medical practitioners and patients behave during a gynecological examination in Behavior in Private Places exemplifies Goffman’s analysis in his Presentation of Self in Everyday Life about man a social actor who choose his acts depending on the specific situation. In Goffman’s arguments, man is a social actor and by nature has the ability to decide on what prop, customs and roles he would play in specific situations. Further, it is one of his main goals as an actor to act rationally and modify his behavior to adapt to the settings in front ...

Is Federalism Necessary

Is Federalism Necessary

Introduction

Federalism is a form of government where a written constitution is able to divide political power between the federal government and the state government. Under federalism, both state and federal governments act and help citizens directly through law making and responsible officials. There have been several times the Supreme Court is asked to adjudicate the definition of Federalism, which Founding Fathers constructed. There is a clear impact of Federalism on American citizens that are both positive and negative in nature.

Responsive Government One of the biggest advantages of Federalism for American citizens has been the responsiveness ...

Introduction

The general outcomes of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) labor market have remained lower despite the region recording a positive economic growth. The improvements in the MENA labor markets experienced in the last one decade are negligible. Many factors influence the success of labor markets in the world. Factors such as the rate of unemployment, occupational choice and sector allocation, participation rates in different economic activities, and wages are important indicators of the economic position and success of a labor market. However, the MENA labor market continues facing economic segmentations because of the poor wage structure and ...

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Inside West Virginia, within the state of Mt. Olive, the overcrowding of mentally ill patients is so great—even greater than those patients staying in the state psychiatric hospitals of Huntington and Westin. It has become the mental institution of Southern United States. The author of this article has experienced how it was to work within the psychiatric ward of the jails at Mt. Olive. This overcrowding, however, has affected the chances of seriously mentally ill patients of being cured from their illness, since the physical environment is very important when providing them with peace, quietness and solitude. It ...

Introduction

Access to quality, safe, and affordable healthcare is a priority of every person worldwide. Most countries in the world, especially, the United States of America (USA), have continued to put more efforts towards improving the delivery of care to ensure every citizen enjoys quality and safe health outcome. Health disparities act as one of the major issues affecting the delivery of health in the U.S. Health disparities affect different groups of people in the country, but it's more common among racial and ethnic minorities and underserved communities. The increasing documentation of disparities in healthcare calls for an urgent need ...

In America today there is a great deal of anger, strife and unrest. In fairness it is impossible in a diverse land to “please” everyone. The reality is that much of this social unrest stems from a number of reasons. Three of those reasons include income, race and gender as it exists in this modern era. While each can be discussed and addressed individually, they are, in fact, completely intertwined. Despite the ideal that America is based on the ideas of equality for all Americans is something of a myth in many towns, cities and states across the country. ...

The feminist movement has been a vibrant one for the past couple of decades, not only in the United States but all across the world. There have been politically powerful and culturally influential campaigns and movements regarding women’s liberation and consciousness. The feminist movement involved several projects in the government bureaucracies, different institutions, and professions. These movements have brought about major changes in the lives of many women and their professions. Despite the acceptance of women’s equality and prominent accomplishments, the feminist movement has yet to achieve its absolute goals of gender equality (Epstein 2001). The focus ...

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The film “Inequality for All” provides insight into the economic problems and challenges that Americans face and how they affect America as a democratic society. Nearly seventy percent of the nation’s economy relies on consumer spending. The purchasing power of the middle-class households in the U.S. is one of the factors that make Americas tick. Even when activities are booming in Wall Street, the middle-class wages remain the same. The economic inequality in the U.S. has become worse over the past 40 years. The trend is manifested by the skyrocketing salaries of CEOs while the average employee income ...

The Importance of Keeping Affirmative Action in the U.S.: The Struggle for Rights by the Chicano People The Importance of Keeping Affirmative Action in the U.S.: The Struggle for Rights by the Chicano People In a country like the US where racial and ethnic inequalities are a major social problem, affirmative action has become an important aspect of alleviating such differences and inequalities. Affirmative action programs are those policy actions that are meant at correcting past injustices that have been perpetrated against a group of people and any inequalities that exist between them and the native people in a ...

HPV vaccination among adolescent girls in the UK

Marlow, L., 2011. HPV vaccination among ethnic minorities in the UK: knowledge, acceptability and attitudes. British Journal of Cancer, 105:486-492. The research involves the study on the uptake of childhood vaccination from various ethnical minorities in the UK. The research method includes qualitative and quantitative peer-reviewed journals and articles published between January 2000 to March 2010 from scholarly resources. Purposive sampling was used in order to determine the ideal proportion of the ethnic participants in the study. Ethnicity related variables were included in the study with consideration of the geographical location, country of birth, language spoken and the years ...

Theoretical literature strongly points to a role of social and other environmental factors in predicting academic outcomes (Shaffer & Kipp, 2010; Condron, 2009; Panofsky, 2003). According to Shaffer & Kipp (2010), while behaviourist learning theories consider the environment and child-specific circumstances are inconsequential learning, Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory consider linguistic, emotional, cognitive, and social development to be complementary processes that shape children’s growth and literacy. Vygotsky and Piaget’s theories emphasize the interaction between nurture and nature in learning and development. Piaget believed that children were moulded by their interaction with the environment, ...

USA Wages

The wage inequalities in the U.S. are occasioned by weak wage structures and policies (Gordon, 2016). The inequalities are partially attributable to overpaid C.E.O and managers and underpaid workers. Moreover, the share of the national income that is set aside to cater for wages has been decreasing gradually over the years (Gordon, 2016). Job insecurity and lower wages were common during the Great Depression; however, political responses to the depression and challenges brought about by the World War II led to improvements in the employees’ bargaining power. The rapid economic growth in the U.S. is attributed to an increase ...

Smoking is a learned habit that has existed in the society for long. This allows us to understand how the habit affects health and wellbeing both. Though the country may make millions of dollars selling tobacco, it spends several times more on treating diseases caused by the smoking habit. Explain why sociology is useful in helping us to challenge the dominance of biomedicine and understand health and health care as shaped by biopsychosocial factors. The society we belong treats scientific knowledge as proven and reliable information to improve once understanding about the world we live. Biomedical understanding of diseases ...

War and militarism have existed for centuries now as means of protection against external invasion or attack or to settle international scores and aggressions. However, war should always be used as a last resort as a means of solving differences among countries. Using the conflict and order theories, the role of ordinary citizens and governments in reducing militarism and wars can be analyzed. Based on the order and governments can work together to reduce the impacts and incidences of war by creating a society with minimal or no inequalities that are likely to create chaos and civil strife that ...

Factors at the macro level and micro level influences health care in the United States and other nations of the world. Doctrines and cultural beliefs shape people's perceptions and choices in health matters. Availability and access to resources are also another important positions to monitor.These factors exert influences that can either affect health care positively or negatively. This paper explores the contribution of health clinical providers and the dogmas held in the society in shaping the health care.

Clinical heath providers

In my opinion, the health clinical providers neither reproduce inequality in patient health nor the delivery of health care. However, The ...

Race and ethnicity are defining characteristics in modern society, and although progress has been made to reduce disparities and enforce equity among all groups, inequalities still exist. These inequalities are deeply rooted in American society and often mislabeled as racism, racial bigotry, or sexism. Because society seeks the ultimate equality, the second feminist movement has gone overboard in ensuring the equitable treatment of all groups. Fixing the problem of equality is not something that is possible by forcing all groups to be the same, when differences will always exist and arguably should exist. The feminist movement initiated as a ...

The timespan between the post-colonial era and the early 20th century was marked by a specific rise in the urban culture (‘city life’) in America and there were some uniquely identifying characteristics of this emergence of the city life. This essay aims at exploring the various identifying aspects of the American cities that separated them from the rest of the country and conditions that led to a widening social stratification between the lifestyles of the rich and the poor in these cities. In order to understand the various unique characteristics of the American urban life during the chosen era, ...

Introduction

Women deserve equal pay for the same amount of work done as their male counter parts. While the equal pay act has been the edict for an estimated 50 years, it is imperative that the law is updated to carter for the current issues in equal pay based on gender. Gender equality is a debate that has been for the longest time possible. The rights of women have been, for long, undermined and misrepresented (Hartmann, Hayes & Clark, 2014). Despite the struggle of women to be treated equally as their male counterparts, most of them are still being underpaid across ...

Egypt is a North African country with a high population of the Arabs. The main religion of the country is Islam though there are also Christians and other religious groups sparsely spread all over the country. Social inequality in Egypt is one of the worst in the region. As a bigger population of the country struggle to live below a dollar, the cities keep on rising with skyscrapers. The poor-rich gap keeps on widening. Apart from the evident distinct gap between the poor and the rich, gender inequality is on the rise. Women have gained a little recognition in ...

Such already explains how the concept of globalization has facilitated the relocation of goods from their original center of production to other markets. Additionally, the production of fast foods as well as other food items relates to globalization in the form of migration of human labor, displacement of individuals from their original land of residence, and the concept of global circulation of the workforce. Such shifts resulting from the dynamics associated with production have to do with the nature in which large organizations and brands such as The Yum Brands can control the global markets of their agribusiness products. ...

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Introduction

High rates of unemployment are referred to one of the biggest economic concerns in the United States. The number of unemployed people increases substantially in the periods of economic downturn. As Stater and Wenger (2013) ascertain, “the national unemployment rates averaged 9.5 and 9.0 percent in 2010 and 2011” (p. 2). The unemployment rate serves as an indicator of “a community’s socioeconomic deprivation as well as its social disintegration or disorganization” (Singh & Siahpush, 2016, p. 9). This indicator is strongly associated with income inequality as well as levels of poverty across ...

A Broad Definition of Terms

When the term ‘gender studies’ is mentioned, most individuals reflect on women’s suffrage. However, there are myriad facets of societal impacts and feminist history that describe gender studies. As depicted by a number of researches, gender study was a term that was previously used to refer to women’s studies. However, researches conducted by various international universities proved that the term turned students off thus changed it to gender studies. The use of gender studies enabled most universities particularly those in the United Kingdom and Mexico to legitimize the study of feminism and gender. From this time, the ...

Introduction: Smoking is a learned habit that has existed in the society for long. This allows us to understand how the habit affects health and wellbeing both in the short term and in the long term. This injurious habit of smoking has taken a commonplace in our culture. Tobacco, the key ingredient in cigarettes, is the leading cause of avoidable illness in the world. A person who smokes 2 packs of cigarette per day, spends ~ 3-4 hours per day on smoking and inhales 1000mg of tar each day. The health care cost is several times higher for smokers when ...

Even in the 21st century, the problems of race, class, gender, and ethnicity did not disappear from the terrains of the U.S. The country holds tragic experiences in the history regarding the unequal dissemination of power that led to the catastrophic outcomes, including the slavery, economic downturns, and a failure to establish equal and sound social relationship in the community. While the liberalist principles prevail in the current political and social frameworks, there are a lot of inequalities existing in the American society, where the representatives of non-Caucasian ethnicity tend to be poorer, women still earn less than men ...

Foremost, to understand the relevance of the identified themes of politics and economics, there is a need to consider the traditions that the authors represent in their works and the how their characters realize the problem with assuming the norms are acceptable. In other words, the following segments of this paper present the turning points of the identified narratives as they highlight the socio-economic divisions through the experiences of the characters. In “The Lesson” racial groups play a significant role in determining the opportunities that the people access. While in “The Necklace,” the social class to which one is ...

“Poor single mother on welfare tell me how you did it?” rings the famous lyric of the late Rapper-Activist Tupac Amaru Shakur. The son of a former Black Panther, this ode to his mother provides a glimpse into the conundrum of surviving in the wake of being poor and black on public assistance. What Shakur unknowingly reveals is the image of welfare in a more empathetic and realistic way that illuminates instead of ignoring the lived realities of its recipients. While Shakur’s lyric is compassionate in it’s depiction, conservative lawmakers are less considerate in their elucidation of ...

Improving Health Inequities

Health inequities refer to the systematic differences in the status of a given population. The youth population of the age between 6 and 12 present in the Bronx, District 4, faces various health inequities. Majority of the teens of the mentioned age tend to engage in premature sex, which leads them to encounter health inequalities relating to pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and obtaining sexually transmitted infections. Other inequalities include the huge variation in mortality rates between the youths and the elderly individuals in the Bronx. Reduced life expectancy among the youths of the mentioned age is also a pressing health inequality. ...

Ibsen exposes the life experiences of his main female character Nora to show the way patriarchal societies deprive women their freedom by suppressing their views, treating them like children, and through repressive gender roles. Nora’s life and her relationship with her husband, Torvald, is a typical reflection of the importance of self-determination for women within the marriage institution. It is apparent that when a person’s freedom is limited either by choice or by chance, one is not able to establish a relationship based on equality with a partner or other people within the society. The author provides ...

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Introduction The phrase "the rich get richer while the poor get poorer" has become a worldwide anthem at many political and economic forums. While these facts are actually true very few or practically no one goes forward to act in a manner seen to strike a balance if anything many individuals are individualistic and greedy. Elite economists from IMF recently released a study on the causes and consequences of rising income inequalities. It is believed as a result of income inequality there could arise a myriad of complex problems, most of which touch and significantly impact upon the economic ...

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“Social determinants of health”

Where a person resides, gets the education, and works these conditions mutually impact the health of that person in determining health risks and outcomes. Such conditions are considered as social determinants of health (SDOH) (Social Determinants of Health | CDC, 2016). It is evident that a high education and rich background provide more awareness and opportunities of better nutrition and lifestyle, thus, these are considered as a predictor of better health. Force Field and Well-Being Paradigms of Health model by Blum emphasized on three main components mental, physical ...

A trade deficit arises when a country’s imports exceed its exports. There are different schools of thoughts when it comes to establishing a link between rising deficits and unemployment. When a country’s exports are consistently less than its imports, this implies that there is a reduced demand for the goods and services it produces, since its nationals, as well as the rest of the world, are buying products manufactured in other countries. If allowed to continue in the long-term, a persistent deficit will lead to job loss locally, because decreased consumption of products and services means that ...

Assess The View That The Main Function Of The Education System Is To Reproduce And Legitimise Social Inequality

Marxist theories of education rely upon the notion that the education system systematically reproduces the social and cultural values that lead to the privileging of one social class over another. For Marxists, social inequality is the core of capitalism. As Anyon (2011, p. 7) suggests, capitalism is “an economic system based on private ownership of the means of production.” Moreover, capitalism cannot function unless these social inequalities exist. According to Marxism, the education system perpetuates these inequalities by creating a set of standards which do not have a neutral ideological formation. Regardless of geographic location and emphasis on cultural, ...

Nurses often play a very critical role in the implementation of healthcare policies; this is because nurses are well conscious and have a better understanding of healthcare systems and delivery mechanisms. Healthcare policy process becomes more efficient and also effective when all relevant stakeholders are involved in its formulation and implementation. The current U.S healthcare system is undergoing a lot of reforms in trying to conform to the new laws, regulations and policies put in place by various government agencies. The goals of these reforms are reducing healthcare costs, enhancing accessibility and improving the quality of care (Benton, 2012). ...

Introduction

This paper is to deal with one of main issue of post-WW2 world, namely the phenomenon of civil war. The analysis of this paper is devoted to such questions as the reasons for certain civil wars as well as concrete instances of such internal conflicts. Also, the paper is to discuss the major theoretical contributions and controversies related to the civil war research program: firstly, civil wars are defined conceptually, and then, operationally. Second, major theories relating to the issue of causes of civil wars and their results will be discussed, along with future directions and policy implications. The ...

The education system has socialized students in many ways. School systems have rules and regulations that the students have to follow. Students have to adhere to the rules and regulations so that they get to be part of the school system. The order view applies to the way students are forced into the system. They are groomed to live together such that their habits and characters conform to the agreed norms. In addition to the knowledge, education systems teach people how they can live together in the society as brothers and sisters. Through the programs, education enforces social inequalities ...

Katznelson is one of those leading writers who have proved themselves in providing much knowledge to the readers about social and political history. A professional in political science and history, he is best known for his influential research upon United States and covered topics such as social knowledge, liberal state, inequality, and institutions. His work always brings exceptional aspects that have been most important in the history of America. He has highlighted various features that have been a part of American history and has unfolded the inequalities that were evidenced in the 20th century. A collection of his books ...

Although China is known to be the home of the world's ancient and most continuous culture, it has experienced many institutional changes since the Communist regime came into power in 1949. In China, foundation of hierarchy and family, social set up was based on relational norms that were expounded by Confucius and Tang Dynasty's legal codes. Such an institutionalized relational kind of logic has shaped the society whereby the order is based on the social obligation to the authorities and family as opposed to the protection of individuals. The country’s history has been marked by two intertwined social ...

Introduction

Labor constitutes a fundamental factor of production, and it is one of the determinants of services and commodity prices. It entails human efforts used in the creation of goods and services, and its rewards are salaries or wages. Unemployment is one of the major economic problems facing many countries, especially developing ones. Attaining full employment level is the objective of most governments since it is an essential driver to achieving economic growth and development. In most developing countries, labor markets are poorly developed, and wages are determined by market forces of demand and supply. As such, labor is poorly ...

“The Lesson” is the short story written by Toni Cade Bambara and its main topic is the social and economic inequality. This inequality can be seen in the position of the children and their families in the society. Miss Moore is also teaching them about social and economic inequality in her private lessons which happen during summer. The children symbolize the innocence and the young who are supposed to be educated about the world and about all of the injustice. The world functions in such a way that there are the privileged and the under-privileged groups of people. In “ ...

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Financial literacy is influenced by various elements among different races. Select structural reasons cause these inequities that cause economic disparities. Oppression, discrimination and inequality play a critical role in how various races are financially literate. Blacks, Spanish and whites do not have the equal distribution of literacy in finance. The factors are significantly influenced by several social-economic variables in the outcomes (Ciment, 2006). These variables include; education access, income levels, empowerment of individuals and prevailing social-cultural perspectives. These factors are under the structural elements discussed above, and as addressed by community invention project. The community intervention project in this ...

The Role of Advertising in Perpetuating Gender Inequalities

The social structures have always been producing social inequalities. In modern society, this trend still exists. Despite the fact that stereotyped thinking is the basis of human thinking, they (stereotypes) should be constantly revised, as they are constantly losing their relevance. However, most people use stereotypes and think accordingly without taking into account that some things are no longer relevant. Such thinking, in fact, leads to a perception of social inequality as a normal thing. Most of the social inequality is noticed in gender issues. Given that the government and the country`s culture usually dictates many of the ...

It would be incorrect to say that women have not made huge progress in the workplace. In fact, they have achieved a lot in a relatively small period of time. It is true, however that the struggle has been real, and women have been deemed unsuitable for the job since a long time. The gender gap between the male and the female in a preeminently patriarchal society has made women the weaker and frailer subject in society, whereas men are the stronger, focused and goal-oriented living beings amongst humanity. This attitude against women has prevented even the most brilliant ...

Introduction

The role of sociology in the society cannot be ignored. One can easily make use of social theories to reflect on the environment they live in. The conflict theory stipulates the existence of class structures in a society. Simply put, there exist social inequalities. This paper gives a reflection of this social theory in relation to the lifestyle of a given community.

The segment that gives the best reflection of my neighborhood is the ‘New Empty Nests’. As the term implies, people and families classified under this segment do not appreciate staying at home, hence the reason their families ...

Introduction

Over the decades, the United States of America has been an egalitarian human society that has dedicated its resources to the eradication of women inequality and racism (Katz & Moore, 2004). Besides, it has formulated numerous legislations to push for equality for women, emancipation of slaves, and civil rights movements that aimed to promote equal treatments of the American Society (Katz & Moore, 2004). Despite these tremendous steps, racism and gender discrimination in the workplace still continues to be prevalent. In particular, women and minority groups like African-American have been the main target of this discrimination. The discrimination takes various forms ...

The Idea of Commons and Communing

Introduction Ideally, communization is the core pillar of both societal and national coherence. It promotes common interests and sense of mutual ownership of property among members of society. People’s culture is an essential ingredient of communization as it represents people’s ways of life and their attitudes toward life. Culture is crucial in comparing behavioral relationships and characters that constitute a society. Also, belonging to a particular cultural group is a warrant of systematic protection to individual’s existence in a community. Communization entails the cultural transformation in the sense that it brings everything in a community under ...