Structural unemployment

would be a set of government policies which enable new buyers to the property market (subsidised/cheaper loans) These policies provided under the Keynesian welfare state exist to create and promote equal opportunity and fairness. By recognising structural inequality, it can be achieved by properly distributing wealth through means of taxing those who earn a higher income or large businesses at a higher tax rate compared to those who are disadvantaged. But it has to be a balanced and fair system…

overcrowding and structural deficiencies (CBC, 2011; MacTavish et.al, 2012; Canadian Press, 2016). The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) defined access of proper housing is the third most important basic human needs. "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness,…

What is social identity theory? The title is the question that everyone asks. So, to answer that question, the meaning of the theory is an “interactionist social psychological theory of the role of self-conception and associated cognitive processes and social beliefs in group processes and intergroup relations” (Hogg, 2016). In basic definition, it means how someone identifies themselves in a group setting or a particular group and not in another. Knowing the meaning to the theory is just half…

Carrie Dvorsak Max Maloney Principles of Sociology November 29, 2017 The Analysis of Social Life: The Three Sociological Perspectives Social phenomena has been analyzed from different perspectives throughout history. Over the course of this time, sociologist have been able to make everything from concrete explanations to broad sweeping generalizations of a single, minute event, to the grand scheme of social life and what it all entails. These perspectives are, to be simply put, a way to view,…

Emile Durkheim is taken as one of the main fathers of Sociology as we know it nowadays. His main contribution was the definition of social facts and their function. He took social facts as something that controlled us in some way within society. Another important concept is Anomie. Anomie represents a situation where standards and rules in society are not clearly anchored. At past, the suicide was taken as a desperate act of an individual, it was only an individual matter. But Durkheim looked…

A systems theory can be described as a sociological theory that looks at how groups of individuals interact as, and within a system. It is a group of different individuals working together to make something work. Individuals work together, influence each other, and make their system the system that works perfectly and allows each individual to work in harmony. Megan, Tom, and Edward are all detrimental to the systems that they are apart of, and without them their systems can fall apart, and…

Mohan Rakesh was very socially aware, his characters show how aware he was of society and the way that people think and act in a particular situation. Four plays of Mohan Rakesh are being analyzed from the point of view of Social Consciousness, leading to the whole idea of Morality that really drives society. How the ‘boundaries’ of Morality keep the characters caught up in situations and states from where there is No Exit. Some characters are not even given a choice to leave, while some are,…

Sociologists have developed three main perspectives to decipher the social world. Each perspective evaluates the society, social patterns, and behaviors through a different lens. These traditional paradigms include structural-functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. The structural-functional theory focuses on the interdependent role of each part that works collectively to stabilize the complex machine of society. The conflict theory considers the inevitable competition of…

What exactly is a social imaginary? A social imaginary can be defined as the interpretive understanding of the world, what a good life looks like, and how we can attain it. A Social imaginary encompasses the creative and meaningful dimensions of the real world, the dimensions through which people in our society create their ways of living and the rules by which they live on earth. Growing up in an African American household, my parents taught me that life is tough and I would have to work two…

Sociology is known to be the study of society itself, the relationship between people and the community; this is used to understand how our actions shape everything around us. They investigates social causes or issues such as the effects of a community on a person, gender identity, as well as race. To do so they may design research projects, collect data through observation or surveys, and collaborate with sociologist all around the world to seek help to test their theories out. To look at the…