For the Discussion posting you did earlier this week, you identified 3 social is
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For the Discussion posting you did earlier this week, you identified 3 social issues and found 2 resources for each of those 3. Those collective social issues could have focused on: the economy, unemployment, government, healthcare, or immigration. If you chose something else, please make sure that it is a collective issue (like education), and not a personal one (like abortion). Write a report analyzing your 3 social issues and discuss the life cycle of each. The life cycle of social problems includes: definition legitimacy reemergence of demands rejection institution building Include facts and relevant information from each of your sources. Your report can be presented in a multimedia presentation form, or an outline form, as well as in a formal paper
Explanation / Answer
UNEMPLOYEMENT
In this essay I would like to consider the impact of unemployment on social issues and recommend solutions to this actual problem. To begin with it can be said that unemployment has significant impact on social issues. Obviously, majority of the population in the United States earn their living by working for somebody and a lot of families in our country depend on the salary. Everybody have to pay bills, credits and so on. In other words, most of our citizens depend on their work, because they have to earn money. First of all, unemployment rate indicates on state of the economy of the country and its effectiveness. As a fact, unemployment rate is very important indicator and has influence on currency rate. It can be said that if the country has high unemployment rate – the government carries a poor management. Consequently, the more people become unemployed – the more intensified social tensions in the society are. It should be noted that this indicator has enormous impact on social stability in our country and in the worse case can lead us to the revolution. Taking into account mentioned above I would like to say that unemployment has enormous impact on social issues, and this is the main reason why I have chosen this topic.
It should be noted that high level of unemployment leads to increased social tensions in the U.S., as well as to a range of social problems, among them are: the problem of poverty; the racial problem; the problem of crime; the problem of alcoholism; the housing problem. Further, I would like to review each of these problems in detail, according to Bijou Yang, David Lester (2010).
The problem of poverty in the U.S. Without any doubts, mass unemployment leads our citizens to poverty. As a fact, in the U.S. a person is considered poor when his officially annual income does not exceed the poverty line. It is determined on the base of the cost of goods and services, which are required to meet the most basic subsistence needs. Today, income of over a third of the poor citizens in the U.S. represents less than 50 percent of people who are under “poverty line”. Moreover, the majority of the poor of the U.S. population nowadays consists of women and children.
According to Esmé E. Deprez (2009), it can be said that the racial problem in the U.S. is one of the most pressing domestic social problems the country. Despite the proclamation of the equal rights of American citizens, the United States still remains a country of racial inequality and discrimination. Often, we have a situation, when a person can not get a job, because he is not “white”. As a fact, the persistence of discrimination in hiring and firing indicates irreducible gap between white and colored Americans. In my opinion, racial-ethnic groups are systematically discriminated in salary and education fields. Moreover, the broad masses of African-Americans have virtually no access to quality health care.
The next is the problem of crime in the U.S. In recent decades, crimes in the U.S. have more open, widespread and severe forms. It should be noted that unemployment leads to enhanced growth rates of crime and increasing involvement of youth in this sphere, the concentration of crime in cities and industrial centers. Also, the problem of crime in the U.S. has following outcome – increased number of drug addicts. Many experts consider that there is a direct relationship between the growth of drug addiction and crime.
It should be noted that the problem of alcoholism in the U.S. is closely related to the unemployment. As a result of firing, a person feels himself inferior and starts drinking too much alcohol. Consequently, the person loses his skills and it is becoming much harder to find appropriate job. As a rule, alcoholism in the U.S. – is a pressing social problem that affects essentially all aspects of American society – the socio-political, economic and moral. The prevalence of alcoholism among the diseases is the fourth after cardiovascular disease, cancer and mental illness.
According to James Jones (2008), describing the housing problem in the U.S., it should be noted that due to a number of historical, social and economic conditions America has one of the highest level of housing prices in the world. In other words, to buy a house, average U.S. citizen has to pay credit for thirty years. But, if he loses his job, he will not be able to cover a credit and keep house. As a result, in situation of high level of unemployment, more and more Americans have to sell their houses and move into apartments.
In this part of the essay I would like to recommend solutions for the social problems that are caused by unemployment. In order to limit them, there have to be implemented new ways and approaches to cut unemployment rates. I am convinced that unemployment issue is under the jurisdiction of the state and, in my opinion, competent management of this sphere will reduce the negative impact of all the above mentioned problems and also reduce social tension in society.
According to Brenda Sorensen (2010), leading economy experts consider that the main directions of state policy on employment and unemployment should be following:
Consequently, not all of the active policy measures are effective and can be criticized, because their impact on unemployment is difficult to determine. Problems that cause unemployment have to be taken into consideration and certain improvements will also be essential.
In my opinion, authorities should take urgent measures to solve unemployment problem. First of all, in each administrative center in every state should be organized public works for the citizens, who lost their permanent income. It can be said that this activity should include the organization of roads repair and construction and other infrastructure projects. However, these projects are capital-intensive and local budgets may not have enough funds for their realization. Although, I believe that public works can also include work on the cleaning of streets, landscaping, maintenance of public transport, etc. Secondly, employment service should provide the unemployed with funds to start their own business. As a rule many of the unemployed mind their own business, but do not have enough money for a start up. Of course, before providing the loan, employment service must ensure that the borrower’s business plan is competitive and meets the general requirements. Thirdly, I think that local authorities should also create retraining courses for people who lose their jobs. But, before this step, the government should create a list of priority vacancies for the country and help people to retrain and find job. I strongly believe that all these measures are in demand and will help to reduce social tensions in the society and contribute to general economic recovery.
To sum it up, it should be noted that currently, in the U.S. unemployment rate is around 7 per cent (17 million people are unemployed). Increased inflow into the labor market of the economically active population, structural changes in the American economy, the evolution of qualifying, the occupational structure of the U.S. labor market, the accelerated introduction of robotics and automation, the intensive militarization of the U.S. economy – this is not a complete list of the major reasons, why unemployment in a large scale came to exist, along with a significant expansion of employment.
It is essential to take into consideration all the problems connected with unemployment such as: the problem of poverty; the racial problem; the problem of crime; the problem of alcoholism; the housing problem. In my opinion, authorities should take following steps to reduce social tensions: in each administrative center in every state should be organized public works for the citizens, who lost their permanent income; employment service should provide the unemployed with funds to start their own business; local authorities should also create retraining courses for people who lose their jobs. Of course, all these measures are not fundamentally new, but as you know, everything new – is well forgotten old.
GOVERNEMENT
The Government of India (GoI) is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of 29 states and seven union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic. It is located in New Delhi, the capital of India.
The full name of India is the Republic of India. The names of India have a long and complex history which stem all the way back to the Greek and Roman times. It is thought that the word Hindustan comes from the Sanskrit word Sindhu, which means "the sea".This evolved in the word Hindu and Hindustan. India comes from the Indus river and the Greeks and Romans wrote about it as India. This became widespread in their writing and then commonly used to refer to the area between the Indus and the Ganges. As time went on, the British favored using India on their maps and this became more commonplace than Hindustan.
Affecting the Westminster systemfor governing the state, the union government is mainl ory composed of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, in which all powers are vested by the Constitution in Parliament, the Prime Minister and the Supreme Court. The President of India is the Head of State and the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces while the elected Prime Minister acts as the chief executive (of the executive branch) and is responsible for running the union government. There is a bicameral Parliament with the Lok Sabha as a lower house and the Rajya Sabha as an upper house. The judicial branch systematically contains an apex Supreme Court, 24 high courts, and several district courts, all inferior to the Supreme Court.
The basic civil and criminal laws governing the citizens of India are set down in major parliamentary legislation, such as the Civil Procedure Code, the Indian Penal Code, and the Criminal Procedure Code.Similar to the union government, individual state governments each consist of executive, legislative and judicial branches. The legal system as applicable to the union and individual state governments is based on the English Common and Statutory Law.The full name of the country is the Republic of India. India and Bharat are equally official short names for the Republic of India in the Constitution,[8] and both names appears on legal banknotes, in treaties and in legal cases. The Union Government, Central Government or Government of India (Bharat Sarkar) are often used in an official and unofficial capacity to refer to the Government of India.[citation needed] Because the seat of government is in New Delhi, "New Delhi" is commonly used as a synonym for the Central Government.
Issues
Several ministers are accused of corruption and nearly a quarter of the 543 elected members of parliament had been charged with crimes, including murder, in 2009.[30] Many of the biggest scandals since 2010 have involved high level government officials, including Cabinet Ministers and Chief Ministers, such as the 2G spectrum scam (1.7 lakh crore(US$26 billion)), the 2010 Commonwealth Games scam (70,000 crore (US$11 billion)), the Adarsh Housing Society scam, the Coal Mining Scam (1.86 lakh crore(US$29 billion)), the Mining Scandal in Karnataka and the Cash for Vote scam.
HEALTH-CARE
The Health Care-Social Issues Program is designed to enhance student competence in analyzing the complex social and ethical ramifications of health care issues. Students gain an understanding of how economic, cultural, technological, social, and psychological processes affect modern health care.
The curriculum complements natural science, humanities, and social science majors and enriches student participation in the health care professions.
the experience of a unique occupational group of World Trade Center (WTC) workers: immigrant workers. This group is comprised largely of men, laborers, who are first-generation immigrants. The majority of these workers are from Latin America (predominantly from Ecuador and Colombia) or from Eastern Europe (predominantly from Poland). Our data shows that the disease profile observed in these workers was what we have previously reported for WTC working population as a whole. Recent reports have begun to document the disproportionate burden of occupational hazards, injuries, and illnesses experienced by immigrant workers in the United States. The WTC experience of immigrants exemplified this burden but, additionally, highlighted that this burden is exacerbated by limitations in access to appropriate health care, disability and compensation benefits, and vocational rehabilitation services. A clinical program that was designed to address the complex medical and psychosocial needs of these workers in a comprehensive manner was successfully established. Full justice for these workers depends on larger societal changes.