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SOC-220 Social Inequality Worksheet
Deneishia Jones
Grand Canyon University
SOC-220 Social Inequality Worksheet
Social inequality can be based on economic conditions, age, gender, race, and ethnicity. Social inequality has unfavorable effects on society and it also perpetuates human trafficking. Although the causes of human trafficking include many intricate factors. But then it is fueled by social inequality in most of the countries of the world. Due to social inequality, people face an adverse mental and financial condition. With a weaker mindset, and desire to earn, they become victims of human trafficking. On the other hand, human traffickers exploit the victims as they are aware of the circumstances of the victims. Discrimination can take multiple forms. Two of them are individual and institutional discrimination. Social inequality is influenced by both types in different ways. Through individual discrimination, the conduct of an individual member intends to have a negative and harmful impact on one or more members of a specific race, gender, age or ethnicity. In this way, social inequality prevails among individuals. Institutional discrimination targets specific individuals of a specific race, ethnicity, gender or age that can be easily labeled. Institutional discrimination is usually catered to by the governing bodies and social institutions like education, marriage, and religion. The practice of institutional discrimination promotes individual discrimination among people. Social inequality is being addressed at many platforms to create awareness about its harmful impacts. One of the solutions to tackle the issues of social inequality is to end the indirect social inequality at the governmental level. The government can promote social inequality directly as well as indirectly. Indirect social inequality arises when a policy, government action or legislation does not explicitly promote social inequality, yet its outcomes produce an environment which is prone to social inequality ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"zTzfAfpl","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Yi, 2015)","plainCitation":"(Yi, 2015)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":948,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/YgsdZK9k/items/XUM38N3C"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/YgsdZK9k/items/XUM38N3C"],"itemData":{"id":948,"type":"article-journal","container-title":"Governance","DOI":"10.1111/gove.12146","ISSN":"09521895","issue":"2","journalAbbreviation":"Governance","page":"257-259","source":"EBSCOhost","title":"The Quality of Government: Corruption, Social Trust, and Inequality in International Perspective","title-short":"The Quality of Government","volume":"28","author":[{"family":"Yi","given":"Chengzhi"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2015",4]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Yi, 2015). It is important to deal with the indirect sources of social inequality as well because, in the past, the approaches to tackle social inequality did not succeed in improving the condition of victims of discrimination. Institutional barriers hindered the tools to fight social inequality ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"KixSaW94","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Gonz\\uc0\\u225{}lez, 2018)","plainCitation":"(González, 2018)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":952,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/YgsdZK9k/items/V3URNDS9"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/YgsdZK9k/items/V3URNDS9"],"itemData":{"id":952,"type":"article-journal","abstract":"Colombia is one of the countries with the most anti-discrimination laws in Latin America. In this rare legislative cocktail, there are very specific laws, such as the anti-discrimination law that criminalises discrimination, as well as more general laws, such as the law on harassment at work, which includes a clause prohibiting harassment based on race. Despite these various regulatoiy tools, the justice system has not succeeded in altering the situation of victims of racial discrimination. This is due to institutional barriers that make the anti-discrimination tools ineffective. These obstacles range from companies and public officials' lack of capacity to process the complaints, to deficiencies in the design of legal mechanisms to address discrimination. This situation is clearly illustrated by the case of John Jak Becerra, who was a victim of racial discrimination in the workplace and who, despite his attempts to use ail the mechanisms available to him, was forced to bear the impacts of racial discrimination at work. This led the Colombian Constitutional Court to hand down a ruling ordering the companies and the Ministry of Labour to adopt corrective measures on racial harassment in the workplace.","container-title":"Sur: International Journal on Human Rights","ISSN":"18066445","issue":"28","journalAbbreviation":"Sur: International Journal on Human Rights","page":"57-63","source":"EBSCOhost","title":"The Challenge of Overcoming Institutional Barriers to End Racial Discrimination in the Workplace","volume":"15","author":[{"family":"González","given":"Maryluz Barragán"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2018",12]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (González, 2018).
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Yi, C. (2015). The Quality of Government: Corruption, Social Trust, and Inequality in International Perspective. Governance, 28(2), 257–259. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12146
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