SOCIAL STRUCTURE THEORY

Social Structure Theory



Social Structure Theory

The video

The video I selected is related to the prostitution of immigrants. Human trafficking, also known as modern-day slavery or trafficking in persons, is a criminal act and a violation of basic human rights (e.g., right to freedom, right to dignity, right to equal protection of the law) that affects every country in the world. Human trafficking is one of the few crimes that have been pursued from a victim's perspective, with a focus on prevention of trafficking, protection of victims, and prosecution of traffickers (Cotterrell, 1997).

Trafficking in humans is a form of modern-day slavery. It is the transportation and exploitation of women, men, and children within or across countries for a variety of purposes. A human is trafficked by use of force, abduction, fraud, and coercion. Trafficking activities include recruiting individuals, transporting and transferring them from their home country or region to other transshipment points and to destination countries, receiving such trafficked persons, and keeping them in custody or housing them.

Social theories developed to explain the change in the society, and to describe the factors that needed to make the society better, and friendly for the entire individual living there. Society has all sorts of people who have different natures from each other. In the late twentieth century, the relationship between social theory and law has been marked by fundamental changes both in the outlook of social theory and in forms of current regulation. On the one hand, social theory has been subjected to wide-ranging challenges to its modern scientific pretensions. It has had to respond to skepticism about claims that social life can usefully be analyzed in terms of outmoded laws, or authoritatively interpreted and explained in terms of founding theoretical principles. On the other hand, the inexorable expansion of Western law's regulatory scope and detail appears, sociologically, as largely uncontrollable by social systems and relatively unguided by philosophical principles (Spitzer, 1983).

Primary subject

The primary subject is feminism. How females are forced to survive by selling their bodies along the immigration routes. The major content discusses the immigration problems.

Perhaps the most widespread lawful answer to prostitution is criminalization, the outlawing of prostitution. In numerous states, patronizing prostitutes is furthermore a crime, which may be as critical an infringement as prostitution or much less severe. The conveyed goals of criminalization encompass defending the family, defending people from unwanted solicitations, defending minors from exploitation, stopping infection, stopping the development of coordinated crime, defending prostitutes from misuse, and stopping indecency and public nuisances. In most locations, the criminal regulation furthermore prohibits undertakings, undertook by persons other than the prostitute or clientele that accelerate or encourage prostitution, for example pimping, pandering, and procuring. These infringements are generally advised felonies (Cotterrell, 1992).

Social issues

Two social issues are raised in this video. First is the prostitute market along the immigration route. Second is the problem faced by the immigrants, they face while crossing the dessert to reach another state. Feminism of immigration is raised in the ...