Global Inequalities Issues

Global Inequalities Issues

Global Inequality is a significant determinant of human behavior opening doors of opportunity to some and closing them to others. It has two dimensions which are the inequalities which exist between countries and the inequalities within countries. Not everyone in the United States is rich and not everyone in a poor country is poor.

Statements of Enlightenment to this Assignment: Global Divide

Our Team Assignment is rooted in the readings we covered during lecture in class last night. Lecture summary, we covered how people in some parts of the world dedicated their lives to fighting starvation. This type of dedication is referred to as coping mechanisms; the text went into some detailed descriptions of what these people would do fight off hunger pangs, which consisted of strap flat stones to their stomachs, eating grasshoppers and dirt (p. 219). We learned that nations, families, and individual that participate in such activities are considered to be of the bottom billion (or the poverty stricken) of the global divide (pp. 218-219).

The global divide is rooted in global inequality (example, the difference between worldwide poverty and the rich, the systems that are in place that support the status quo of these differences). A lot of this we covered in our reading last week, but this weeks reading adds a lot to it also. So, we will start off with the following outline, it may lead to some detours, however will deal with them as they occur.

Team Assignment outline

Note: remember our issue is global inequality (because global divide and global inequality are basically one and the same). Pick the parts that you will complete, place your name at the end of it and post it as a reply.

1. Introduction and conclusion. Ed (I will take this one but I will be working on some of the other also).

2. Indentify the global inequalities issues, and indentify the specific, affected population groups, if applicable. 437 words.

3. Identify how global inequality has affected global social change, and explain any resistance to this social change.

4. Explain how various groups affected by global inequality have dealt with this issue. Also; explain which sociological theory of social change best applies to the social issue for future research, and explain why that theory is appropriate.