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SOC-220: Social Inequality Worksheet Scoring Guide
Deneishia Jones
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SOC-220: Social Inequality Worksheet Scoring Guide
Human trafficking is derived and assisted by social inequality as unequal power leads to exploitation of the underprivileged. Increasing social inequality has made human trafficking a critical global problem. Socio-economic inequalities contribute towards the creation of a system where people with power can dominate and exploit those who have little to no power ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"VRl7JGnb","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(John R. Barner et al., 2014)","plainCitation":"(John R. Barner et al., 2014)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":941,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/YgsdZK9k/items/N5WKGV55"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/YgsdZK9k/items/N5WKGV55"],"itemData":{"id":941,"type":"article-journal","abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to discuss human trafficking within the broader framework of socio-economic inequality. The presence of socio-economic inequality in the world creates a system where those in power very easily dominate and take advantage of those people without power. One of the most serious contemporary effects of inequalities between and within nations is the phenomenon of global sex trade or human trafficking for the purposes of sex. Deriving from unequal power relations, human trafficking is a serious global crime that involves the exploitation of many, but mostly females and children. This paper provides an extensive discussion of inequality and its links with human trafficking as contemporary slavery. In conclusion, the paper provides a list of selected intra-national and multi-national service organizations that are adopting strategies for combating trafficking through the reduction of social and economic inequality. Implications for social welfare advocates and international collaborative efforts are highlighted.","container-title":"Societies","DOI":"10.3390/soc4020148","ISSN":"2075-4698","issue":"2","journalAbbreviation":"Societies","page":"148","source":"EBSCOhost","title":"Socio-Economic Inequality, Human Trafficking, and the Global Slave Trade","author":[{"literal":"John R. Barner"},{"literal":"David Okech"},{"literal":"Meghan A. Camp"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2014"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (John R. Barner et al., 2014). Other than socioeconomic factors, gender, age, and racial discrimination are also factors that perpetuate human trafficking. Socially discriminated people are oppressed and are becoming victims of human trafficking. Human trafficking in today's world can occur even without differentiating race, ethnicity, gender, age, or financial status but social inequality aids the criminal process as targeting already oppressed people is an easier way.
Individual discrimination induces social inequality among people to discriminate against people based on race, ethnicity, age, and gender ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"qgPpPhr7","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Pincus, 1996)","plainCitation":"(Pincus, 1996)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":946,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/YgsdZK9k/items/P6DGVRYR"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/YgsdZK9k/items/P6DGVRYR"],"itemData":{"id":946,"type":"article-journal","abstract":"Discrimination is a critical term in understanding problems associated with diversity. Historically, of course, discrimination has been a major cause of the lack of diversity in higher education and the [...]","container-title":"American Behavioral Scientist","ISSN":"0002-7642","issue":"2","journalAbbreviation":"American Behavioral Scientist","page":"186","source":"EBSCOhost","title":"Discrimination comes in many forms: individual, institutional, and structural","title-short":"Discrimination comes in many forms","author":[{"family":"Pincus","given":"Fred L."}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["1996"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Pincus, 1996). When people start to think that one of the social groups deserves has a lesser value, that one group faces the effects of social inequality. Institutional discrimination occurs when an institution or government directly or indirectly makes policies or customs which favor one social group over another or disregards a social group. People in institutions have the power to discriminate among social groups. This is the reason why institutional and individual discrimination are interlinked.
A practical solution to the problem of social inequality includes combining the efforts to illegalize trafficking and providing stable economic living conditions ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"xlIeqrJl","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Coy M, 2008)","plainCitation":"(Coy M, 2008)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":944,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/YgsdZK9k/items/IWQD8YHE"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/YgsdZK9k/items/IWQD8YHE"],"itemData":{"id":944,"type":"article-journal","container-title":"British Journal of Social Work","ISSN":"0045-3102","issue":"7","journalAbbreviation":"British Journal of Social Work","page":"1408-1424","source":"EBSCOhost","title":"Young women, local authority care and selling sex: findings from research","title-short":"Young women, local authority care and selling sex","volume":"38","author":[{"literal":"Coy M"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2008",10]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Coy M, 2008). Previously, approaches were made to halt human trafficking activities but the victims who were not provided means of sustainability were forced to be victims of human trafficking again.
In the past, many efforts were separately made which had little effect on the problem and the issue of human trafficking is ever-growing. It is now important to practice combined solutions which can be more effective.
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ADDIN ZOTERO_BIBL {"uncited":[],"omitted":[],"custom":[]} CSL_BIBLIOGRAPHY Coy M. (2008). Young women, local authority care and selling sex: Findings from research. British Journal of Social Work, 38(7), 1408–1424.
John R. Barner, David Okech, & Meghan A. Camp. (2014). Socio-Economic Inequality, Human Trafficking, and the Global Slave Trade. Societies, 2, 148. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc4020148
Pincus, F. L. (1996). Discrimination comes in many forms: Individual, institutional, and structural. American Behavioral Scientist, 2, 186.
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