Neoliberalism

Social policy is based on the different ideologies of wellbeing and is a realistic way of thinking about social issues and problems in our society today. Ideologies are concepts and opinions on certain matters. It is a framework and the process of our thoughts. The way we think and act is set around ideology about what is logical and the way things must be. It is an umbrella of various concepts that categorizes theoretical positions based on their perspective and view of the world (Beddoe &…

Work is a core activity in every day life and is essential to individual identify and links individuals to each other and in society’s core (Kalleberg, 2009). Work also reveals a lot about social order, and the changes that cause all kinds of problems and issues for individuals as a whole (Kalleberg, 2009). Work has long been a central field in sociology, with classical sociologists such as Durkheim, Marx and Weber addressing work in their literatures (Kalleberg, 2009). One practice of work,…

For our Multicultural Curriculum Project, we will be working with the book, Rain of Gold. Over a three-week span we will be working with 9-12 grade high school students, ages raging from 14-18. The book titled, Rain of Gold, written by Victor Villaseñor, tells the story of two different families during the 1910 Mexican Revolution. The author references three generations and their migrations between Mexico and the United States. It represents a detailed account of life in Mexico and California…

Introduction: Adult education is defined by “the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)” (Tight, 2002, p. 63) as learning programmes that are designed for many different learning stages and requirements that men and women want to partcipate in throughout their life (Tight, 2002). These learning programmes can range from formal to non-formal “as well as education with a collective social purpose” (Tight, 2002, pp. 63-64). This essay will begin by explaining the purpose of…

Capitalism has become the dominant economic system after the fall of the Soviet Union and its communist government. This has led to capitalism becoming engrained into our society as something that should not be questioned. Time after time, capitalism is seen as the good guy, as something to fight for. The Cold War was not just against communism but it was also for capitalism. The Cold War can be seen as a pro-capitalist fight against the supposed evil of communism. Although the Soviet Union did…

Most parts of Latin America have been struggling to implement or enforce democracy for the past century. The most notable examples are Argentina and Chile. Many political scientists have argued that this is mostly due to internal factors such as the corporatist culture and lack of proper structural reforms, but they do not include external pressures from the international sphere to curb communist influence in Latin America. In this paper, I will argue that from the coup in Chile in 1973 to the…