MACRO HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Macro Human Behavior

Environmental and Social Impacts in Macro Human Behavior

 

Diverseness has invariably been a component of the social realities of the United States. The Indigenous masses were separated into about two hundred discrete societies in about 200 distinct languages even before the Europeans came. While the variable of environment differ from person to person, under different environments and under different times, focus is held separately on them by entertaining the applicable dimensions of each that includes the psychological, biological and the spiritual dimensions (Hutchison 2011). Presently, ecological theory that deals with the relation between environments and their organisms, has become the prevalent theoretical approach throughout a number of behavioral science fields.

In 1980 government expenditures on social welfare programs (excluding education and pensions) were 29.4 percent of Gross Domestic Product (CDI') in West Germany, 29.4 percent of CDI' in Canada, 43.6 percent of GDP in Sweden, but only 22.5 percent of CDP in the United States (O'Higgins 1988). Western European countries are also more likely to have universal rather than means-tested programs and to have more redistributive taxes and transfer programs (Hicks 1999).

Comparisons of economic well-being across countries consistently show that poverty rates are higher in the United States than in most Western European countries. This research also shows that poor Americans are poorer than the poor in most Western European countries. For instance, compared to $46,040 in the United States (UNICEF,n.d.).It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny the costs of exercising American privilege by remaining ignorant about the rest of the world and the impact our actions have on other nations (Hutchison 2011).

Both Americans and Europeans worry about poverty in part because the poor suffer from important material deprivations such as inadequate housing, medical care, and food consumption (Robbins et al 2006). Deprivations such as ...