Essays on Social Exclusion

(the author’s name) (the institutional affiliation) Although the countries worldwide have been dealing with poverty issues for several decades this problem is still urgent. Even the international commitment to the problem has not lead to substantial progress in reducing poverty levels. As regards the United States, the recent statistics in poverty rate reveals 14.8% of the poor population amounting to 46.7 million (Bray & Schommer-Aikins, 2016, p. 579). Poverty is associated with individuals’ inability to sustain basic amenities which include decent access to adequate resources: food, clean water, housing, clothing, health services, and safety. Such deficiencies restrict human freedom ...

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 ...

Social Exclusion

Social exclusion is referred to the public refusal of individual member if their lifestyle does not meet the regular societal attitudes or if they fail to maintain normal social interaction without necessary material resources and education. Social exclusion is a concept that is used in many parts of the world for the labeling of modern forms of social deprivation and a decline in the margins of society. Social exclusion means non-acceptance of an individual or group of people from the social environment. This may be based on race, ethnicity, language, culture, religion, sex, age, social class, disability, and economic ...

It is traditionally thought that the primary function of law is to regulate people’s behavior and, thus, to establish order within a community. Law and fear of punishment are supposed to prevent people from criminal activity. Therefore, law and law enforcement are essential components of any civil society. At the same time, morality can also perform the function of regulating people’s behavior. Besides, very often morality is named a predecessor to law since many laws were made on the basis of certain moral principles which the society thought necessary to follow. And even though morality does not ...

Indisputably, mental illnesses are almost in every society and can affect any person irrespective of age, gender, or income group. These diseases have profound impacts on social, economic, and cultural life, and are highly prevalent throughout the world (Vanderplasschen et al., 2013). According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness statistics, the population of adults in Americans with mental illness approximates to 61.5 million in any given year (Reserved, 2016). Mental illness disrupts the normal feelings and thinking, resulting in reduced individual capacity to cope with normal life. Some of the fatal mental illnesses are post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), ...

Nowadays homelessness has become a complicated global issue. It is often viewed as an extreme form of social exclusion, largely due to common stereotypes. Since problems of homeless people are rarely discussed in the media, society does not realize the harsh reality these people live in. Several months ago, I was walking down the street when I noticed a man scavenging through the trash for something to eat. I have paid attention to his cloths that were from famous brand H&M. Being involved in the homeless community for a certain period of time, people eventually learns basic rules of ...

Homelessness is one of the very serious problems because it is constantly replenished the ranks of the homeless people today: they are troubled teens, graduates of boarding schools; migrant workers; veterans, people survived the crisis. The authors believe that homelessness leads to stress, mental disorders and substance abuse, especially alcohol, although this may be due to homelessness. Social exclusion is a strong negative factor, weighting personal and behavioral disorders in the homeless, especially for adverse childhood experiences. Studies devoted to homeless show the interest of the researchers to the resolution of the problem of homelessness and about possibility for ...

Introduction

According to the case study, the need to belong is a theory that stats that social alienation (especially by peers) has detrimental effects. The theory supports the fact that peers who are eliminated from their societal groups have psychological impairments. According to the article societal exclusion predicts impaired self-regulation: a 2 year longitudinal panel study including the transition from preschool to school, social seclusion leads to lack of ability to regulate oneself. There was need to conduct this study because children were suffering due to lack of societal groups affiliations. Social rejection hurts and no kid would want to ...

Introduction

Child development involves continuous changes psychologically, biologically and emotionally from the time of infancy up to the end of adolescence. Growth and development are always used interchangeably, but it is important to note the difference in that growth involves the physical changes in child’s body shape, size, height, weight, arms, and legs length whereas development encompasses a continuous progression in complex knowledge. A child’s growth and development are always divided into four periods; infancy, preschool years, middle childhood years and adolescence. The study in this article is about the need to belong theory which gives the relationship ...

In this experiment, the independent variable was the social explicit exclusion (which arises as a result of actions of other people) and social implicit exclusion (which arises as a result of an individual`s inability to participate in a common activity with other people). Activity in anterior cingulate cortex (which is associated with the experience of pain distress) and activity in the right ventral prefrontal cortex (which helps to decrease distress) were two dependent variables. ACC is a neural “conflict monitor” which becomes active when something is wrong with an individual when an automatic response is in conflict with ...

Introduction

The contemporary issue of obesity is worldwide causing not just health, but also economic and social problems. It is becoming ever more concerning issue, since the trend of the obesity rate in the recent past has increased. There has been various researches made so far that examined the issue, but the majority was focused on the health effect that can greatly impact individual and future quality of life or economic issues where every year, more is spend in trying to diminish the rates, but they are focusing on curative not so much in the preventive. The obesity can be ...

While diversity and equality represent the goal in today’s multicultural society, racialized groups continue to be disadvantaged in the business environment. African-American employees need to work harder in order to keep their jobs and to advance in their careers, and they are more likely to be fired for unsubstantial reasons. African-American women are less likely to be promoted in the corporate world than any other group in the country, including White women. As Galabuzi (94) shows, as of 2000, racialized groups in Canada earned less than Whites, despite having similar studies and experience. Furthermore, racialized groups were more ...

Canadian society is understood to widely represent things like equality, freedom, and acceptance, but this is not the case for pay equality. Canadian law prohibits the discrimination in employment of persons based on their race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Although employers are unable to discriminate against women in the hiring process there is still a large wage gap between women and their male counterparts. Gender pay inequality has been widely discussed in various news outlets as a large problem in Canada, which has yet be properly addressed. It has been found that women earn less than men due to ...