How do socioeconomic injustices affect our interactions with others? Socioeconomic issues affect our everyday world, and not in a positive way; status measured by income either shuts opportunities or gives low living conditions. The separation of these classes gives much to the few, and few to the most. The status of socio-economy brings about a lot of inequity, which challenges the interaction between people.
In the modern world, where technology and people thrive and there are minimal amounts of wars, there are still many types of socioeconomically related injustices. The most common type of socioeconomic problem would be the gap of wealth. According to World Centric, “Specifically, 1.2 billion (20%) of the world population now lives on less …show more content…
World Centric presents information that states that about ⅕ of the world’s population are in an impoverished state of life, due to these conditions people are dying from malnutrition or diseases; the gap grows wider each year and will keep growing. Another example of the wealth gap would be “Socially and economically, we have created great disparities of wealth. A minority of the world's population (17%) consume most of the world's resources (80%), leaving almost 5 billion people to live on the remaining 20%. As a result, billions of people are living without the very basic necessities of life - food, water, housing and sanitation” (World 3). A minority of the world’s population uses up the majority of the resources, while the majority uses the minority of resources; it's like a child eating more than an adult. Another instance comes from the American Psychological Association, “Socioeconomic status (SES) is often measured as a combination of education, income, and occupation. It is commonly conceptualized as the social standing or class of an individual or group. When viewed through a social class lens, privilege, power, and control are emphasized. Furthermore, an examination of SES as a gradient or continuous variable …show more content…
An example of this would be from the American Psychological Association, “Low socioeconomic status and its relating factors, such as low education, poverty, and poor health, affects our society as a whole. Inequities in wealth and quality of life are increasing globally. Despite these challenges, psychological and other social science professionals have the tools needed to study strategies that could relieve these disparities at both individual and societal levels. It varies in socioeconomic status, including disadvantages in the distribution of wealth, income, opportunities, education and access to resources, affects every person” (3). The association states that due to the disunion of socio-economical rankings, people of a lower social standing will end up with low education and poor health, and will succumb to poverty. In addition, these inequities don’t tend to affect only the people at the bottom but at the top as well, “Social and economic inequality increases the power and importance of social hierarchy, status, and class. As a result, a long list of problems more common further down the social ladder – in poorer neighborhoods for instance – are much more common in societies with larger income differences between rich and poor. Although the impact of inequality tends to be most severe lower down the social ladder, outcomes are worse even among the better
In the modern world, where technology and people thrive and there are minimal amounts of wars, there are still many types of socioeconomically related injustices. The most common type of socioeconomic problem would be the gap of wealth. According to World Centric, “Specifically, 1.2 billion (20%) of the world population now lives on less …show more content…
World Centric presents information that states that about ⅕ of the world’s population are in an impoverished state of life, due to these conditions people are dying from malnutrition or diseases; the gap grows wider each year and will keep growing. Another example of the wealth gap would be “Socially and economically, we have created great disparities of wealth. A minority of the world's population (17%) consume most of the world's resources (80%), leaving almost 5 billion people to live on the remaining 20%. As a result, billions of people are living without the very basic necessities of life - food, water, housing and sanitation” (World 3). A minority of the world’s population uses up the majority of the resources, while the majority uses the minority of resources; it's like a child eating more than an adult. Another instance comes from the American Psychological Association, “Socioeconomic status (SES) is often measured as a combination of education, income, and occupation. It is commonly conceptualized as the social standing or class of an individual or group. When viewed through a social class lens, privilege, power, and control are emphasized. Furthermore, an examination of SES as a gradient or continuous variable …show more content…
An example of this would be from the American Psychological Association, “Low socioeconomic status and its relating factors, such as low education, poverty, and poor health, affects our society as a whole. Inequities in wealth and quality of life are increasing globally. Despite these challenges, psychological and other social science professionals have the tools needed to study strategies that could relieve these disparities at both individual and societal levels. It varies in socioeconomic status, including disadvantages in the distribution of wealth, income, opportunities, education and access to resources, affects every person” (3). The association states that due to the disunion of socio-economical rankings, people of a lower social standing will end up with low education and poor health, and will succumb to poverty. In addition, these inequities don’t tend to affect only the people at the bottom but at the top as well, “Social and economic inequality increases the power and importance of social hierarchy, status, and class. As a result, a long list of problems more common further down the social ladder – in poorer neighborhoods for instance – are much more common in societies with larger income differences between rich and poor. Although the impact of inequality tends to be most severe lower down the social ladder, outcomes are worse even among the better