How should Brazil tackle poverty and inequalities?
Essay - 6 pages - Economic politics
In an article written in French and titled "La lutte contre les inégalités au Brésil : une analyse critique de l'action du gouvernement de Lula" (2011), researcher Mylène Gaulard attempts to highlight the chronic inability of Brazilian public authorities to resolve the two most important...
Globalization and Inequalities: Towards a World Without Poverty: Theories, Institutions, SDG's Policies, Future Perspectives for a Better Society
Essay - 9 pages - International relations
When we talk about globalization, we mainly think about how it has been a driver and shaper of our current society. Despite having increased and revolutionized the economic exchanges, it has largely impacted our cultural and political processes by perturbing them. Globalization appeared and...
How education reproduces inequalities and social difference
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology
Inequalities in the society have historically been based on stratification and the creation of classes within the society. The struggle for achievement and the existence of the society based on the individual achievements has led to the differences between different classes in the society....
Effects of new labor's bill on tuition fee and income inequalities
Tutorials/exercises - 30 pages - Social sciences
New Labor's bill on tuition fees will ensure that students will face the prospect of leaving university with a debt of approximately £15000. Universities will be given leave to increase their tuition fees to around £3000 a year. The reforms which have been announced have been met with mixed...
Disgrace : Gender inequalities
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology
Historically in most societies that exist or have existed in the world equality between the genders is a mere ideal. Even in the present world societies still have a strong element of patriarchy within them. In J.M Coetzee's novel “Disgrace” Coetzee depicts a South African society in...
Inequalities in Modern Society
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Sociology
Why are modern societies characterized by social, political and economical inequalities? In other words, why do modern societies arrange people in hierarchies of inequality based on wealth, status, power, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age and physical and mental abilities?...
Impact of Monetary Policy on South African inequality
Case study - 5 pages - Economic politics
In 1994 the first democratic elections in South Africa brought about the promise of equal opportunity and overall improvement of living standards. However, 26 years later the high levels of South African inequality still remain. This level of inequality has been institutionalised in the economy...
Income Inequality evidence and Policy Representation- American Politics
Case study - 3 pages - Social sciences
There is incontrovertible evidence that the American income inequality has increased, while the social mobility has reduced. It is widely known that states with higher income inequality have lower social mobility, in cases of income-based definition of mobility. This implies that increasing...
Social inequality, democracy, capitalism
Case study - 6 pages - Social sciences
In Latin America, social inequality can lead to the strengthening of anti-democratic convictions and further develop the "apartheid" prevailing social. The intervention of the political in the definition and implementation of economic and social policies is becoming more necessary, and the State...
Examination of social inequality from a sociological perspective
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
The aim of this essay is to discuss the social inequality and other aspects of society from a sociological perspective. Inequalities in society have been the subject of numerous sociological studies. Various commentators from different ideological approaches have analyzed social...
Wealth inequality by Krugman
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
According to Krugman, wealth inequality is a social and political problem rather than an economic problem. Most of the corporations replace the top management personnel with people who are financial well-up even when they do not possess the required qualification. The qualification for promotion...
Labor market inequality in Canada
Thesis - 4 pages - Economy general
When Canada was conceived it was in the early stages of the industrial era, it was an economy that was still a manufacturing based society, it was based on an abundant work force and viable transportation infrastructure. As the nation grew though, it developed into a post-industrial society that...
Benefits of capitalism and inequality of social classes based on Carnegie's argument in "The Gospel of Wealth"
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
In 1848 Karl Marx wrote his Communist Manifesto in which he defined his creation of two social classes known as the bourgeoisie and the proletariats. These consisted of the wealthy and owners of factories, the bourgeoisie, and the rest of the public, who had no money, known as the proletariats....
Inequality vs poverty
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
For this discussion paper, I would like to focus mostly on Feldstein's argument of tackling poverty instead of inequality and why this is a dangerous perspective. To begin with, Feldstein's argument concerning the Pareto principle refers to the economic concept of Pareto superiority,...
The "Terms" of Racial Inequality in the United States
Thesis - 3 pages - Social sciences
“To engage in a serious discussion of race in America, we must begin not with the problems of black people but with the flaws of American society—flaws rooted in historical inequalities and longstanding cultural stereotypes.” (West, p. 6) In the America many people pretend...
Class and inequality in Australia
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology
If Horne described Australian society by its “climate so professedly egalitarian” and its “Fair go, mate”, McGregor points out that “it is impossible to live in Australia without coming to realize that the different social classes […] experience crucial differences...
Racism Among People of Color in Australia
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Social sciences
Australian racism traces contemporary and historical society attitudes, non-compliance to political matters, and government negligence of citizens' rights. Contemporary Australia results from indigenous people and numerous immigration waves from Ireland and the United Kingdom. Racism forms...
Gender inequality in the workplace: One of America's many workplace challenges
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
What does the number 60,743 mean to you? Most people wouldn't be able to place this number off the top of their head. According to the author of The Face of Discrimination, by Vincent J. Roscigno, that is the number of cases of sex and racial discrimination cases of employment. (15). These are...
The connections between the education system and social inequality in contemporary Ireland.
Essay - 3 pages - Social sciences
The issue we are presented with here is a complex one at the best of times. It brings us back to the dilemma of “which came first - the chicken or the egg?” because while it is widely accepted that the Irish education system may lead to social inequality, I maintain that this view is a...
Sustainable Development Goals and Green Growth
Presentation - 37 pages - Ecology & environment
This PowerPoint is about sustainable development goals. It shows an understanding on what sustainable development means and how to take into account our current situation and move towards a green growth. We will see how limited it will be due to inequalities around the world. We will...
Law and racial inequality
Thesis - 4 pages - Civil law
Since the early 20th century, minorities have been striving for equality in the United States. Much progress has since been made in the form of anti-discrimination laws and desegregation, but while many advances have been made in the civil rights movement, inequality has not been escaped....
Social movements and human agency, cultural representations, comparative racial inequality and intersectionality
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
In the article by Naber (2008) ‘Look Mohammed the terrorist is coming' she describes the way the Arabs, Muslims and Middle Eastern citizens in Diaspora are looked at in America where everyone is chastised and seen as a suspect terrorist. For example, after September 11th attack, President...
Country risk: macro-financial economic model and crises
Worksheets - 8 pages - Economy general
Finance is widely viewed as a driver of growth, through various channels, but growth is also a driver of finance. Ross Levine, author of many studies of the subject, strongly supports that financial development is key in the overall development of a country.
Country Risk : Social and Political Dynamics
Worksheets - 3 pages - Political science
Despite their effects on growth and macroeconomic equilibria, social and political crises have been introduced only recently into country risk analysis. Recent crises (Syria, Arab springs, Sahel civil war) put forward those issues and highlighted the gaps in current methods. The analysis of...
What is race?
Essay - 3 pages - Social sciences
Through the many works done by different scholars in the field of racism, various scholars have come up with many ways to define what race is. Malik (1996) defines race as a group of people who have a difference in biological traits and society finds them to be socially significant. Race is a...
Consequentialism and social inequality
Thesis - 5 pages - Social sciences
Everybody in society strives to some degree to be good people. However, being a good person does not always come easily. What is a good person anyway? When one begins to think about what needs to be done to be considered a good person, questions begin to arise. The realm of moral philosophy...
The similarities and differences in the development of labour movements in different parts of Canada
Dissertation - 5 pages - Micro-economy, job-unemployment
The labour history of Canada can be traced back several years to 1812 when Halifax formed a union for the tailors. Just four years later, the formation of labour unions was deterred by the Nova Scotian Union which passed the Anti-union Act. Such has been the trend in the Canadian labour movement....
Walter Rodney and the dependency theory of inequality
Thesis - 2 pages - Social sciences
Africa is a continent rich in natural resources. Copper, gold, diamonds, platinum, rubber, and aluminum are just some examples of what the land has to offer. In the nineteenth century, powerful and industrial Europe desired these raw materials in large quantities. The means of acquiring these...
The status quo of discrimination - Willing workers in unwilling circumstances
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology
The idea of equality has been the dream of the hopeful but the reality is only a glimpse of the ideal. Since the Holocaust in World War II, there has been an international recognition for equality as outlined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, the idea of equality has eluded...
Disability and inequality: Doctor-assisted suicide
Thesis - 2 pages - Social sciences
The turn of the 21st century has brought about a relatively new legal issue: Do individuals have a legal right to determine how and when they die? Questions regarding the ethics, legality issues and the morality of physician-assisted-death (PAD) and euthanasia brought these questions into the...
