Agendas For The Twenty-First Century, By Joe R. Feagin Summary

In the article titled Social Justice and Sociology: Agendas for the Twenty- First Century, the author Joe R Feagin discusses the downside of a capitalistic world. In this article he explains four ways in which capitalism is hurting us on the global scale and in the end Feagin gives us an agenda on how we could possible make changes for our societies system of capitalism by bringing social justice back to the center of focus. Feagin’s first point is about the amount of social injustice in regards to income. According to Feagin, “the pro-capitalist policies of many national government and international organizations have fostered a substantial transfer of wealth from the world’s poor and working classes to the world’s rich and affluent social classes”. In the United States, the rate at which there is an unequal distribution of wealth and income inequality is at all …show more content…
They work for their own economic interests as they “develop” their markets. As they work to further their wealth accumulation it consequentially “destroys and discards regions, countries, people, cultures and natural environments”. In the middle working class the labor in the production relations create divisions by occupation, also market value and authority creates interests for jobs. Capitalist relations are commodified, capital, technology and labor are seen as objects instead and commodified labor is alienated. The market definition makes labor a cultural object which means products tend to replace human value. Expanding capitalism not only increases inequality but also job restructuring, unsafe working conditions, low wages, underemployment or unemployment, loss of land and forced migration. In reality if the working class is in bad conditions that are not stable for a working environment it will lead to less economic growth and productivity but will keep wages