Social Issues - Social Inequity & Poverty

Social Issues - Social Inequity & Poverty

The paper aims to emphasize on the two main social issues of today`s world i.e. Social Inequity & Poverty. Social inequality and poverty are social problems that affect most states today. Poverty exists in all societies, rich or poor, but social inequality is a phenomenon that occurs mostly in undeveloped countries.

Social Inequities

Social inequality is to treat others as unequal or in other words centralized power in the hands of a few. Social inequality is increasingly present in daily life of the larger cities. Social inequality is a form of violence because it violates human rights and impedes the performance of citizenship (Glyn & Miliband, 2009). The term inequality means social problems that lead to isolation and even discrimination against a particular group leading to a situation of lack of access to opportunities offered by society to its members. According to a sociologist, social exclusion is the highest point attainable in the course of marginalization. The Marginalization is a process in which the individual will progressively moving away from society through breaks and consecutive the same (Silver, 1994).

Social inequalities are broader concept than economic inequality. In the context of poverty and social exclusion, we first think about economic inequality as the unequal distribution of income. However, economic inequality can be seen as an uneven distribution of wealth, or as unequal opportunities to participate in various economic activities. Economic inequalities are only one aspect of the broader social inequalities understood (Kerbo, 2003). Social inequalities are the result of different social status of individuals and groups, their position in the distribution of power and prestige. The study of social exclusion is trying to determine which members of society are excluded from important social sphere, which is why and with what consequences. In contrast, the study of social inequality is trying to establish the existence of different social classes and strata and their inter-relationships. A more radical variant of the Solidarity Economy movement has touched this aspect. This becomes clear when proposing that the Solidarity Economy Network formed by self-managing enterprises must extend to the downstream and upstream forming chains of production and goods and services in order to become capable of forming a circuit parallel to formal economic or conventional (Anderson et. al., 2008).

The concept of social inequality is an umbrella that covers various types of inequality i.e. inequality of opportunity and ...