Social Problems Paper: Inequality

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Inequality is a global complication that creates many public obstacles to relieve the destruction of despair and violence. Conflict can ensue as a result of people feeling disadvantaged to others through culture, area of residence, wealth, (Giesen & Nobre, 2010) and the need to experience social mobility to a higher class of prosperity. (Tepperman & Curtis, 2011, p. 33). This can relate to Karl Marx’s proposed Conflict Theory as the working class, known as the proletariat, constantly strive to work extremely hard, in hope for the opportunity to become the owners of production, the bourgeoisie (Tepperman & Curtis, 2011, p. 31). However, these hardworking individuals do not realize that the bourgeoisie are part of a class displaying conspicuous consumption as they proclaim their success through materialistic gain known as symbols, (Bagwell & Bernheim, 1996) not fundamentals of life (Ahmed, 2011). This growing concern of consumption is not substantial and will contribute to global destruction. As a society, participation is crucial as individuals learn to utilize fundamentals of life through local community living, thus ensuring international destruction will not occur (ibid). This paper examines a global collapse as a result of human initiation of harmful issues to the globe, creating the end of modern society. In the first section of the paper, the focus is on the consumption of oil, financial breakdown, and the deterioration of nature. The trailing portion examines the threat of terrorism, nourishment insufficiency, and concluding comments. An analysis of international emergencies including diminishing oil provisions through consumption, economic torment, ecological catastrophe, increasing terrorism, and food scarcity, using probl... ... middle of paper ... ...Retrieved October 24, 2013, from www.streethealth.ca Owen, N. A., Inderwildi, O. R., & King, D. A. (2010, March 12). The Status of Conventional World Oil Reserves—Hype or Cause For Concern? (L. A. Greening, & M. Jefferson, Eds.) Energy Policy, 38(8), 4743-4749. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2010.02.026 Tahereh, A. H. (2009). Global Food Crisis - Food versus Fuels. Competition Forum, 7(2), 419-426. Retrieved November 9, 2013, from : http://search.proquest.com.uproxy.library.dc-uoit.ca/docview/214853857?accountid=14694 Tepperman, L., & Curtis, J. (2011). In Social Problems A Canadian Perspective (3rd ed.). Don Mills, Ontario, Canada: Oxford University Press. Retrieved November 6, 2013 Wright, M. (2008). Technology & Terrorism. Forensic Examiner, 17(4), 13-20. Retrieved November 8, 2013, from http://search.proquest.com.uproxy.library.dc-uoit.ca/docview/207639023?accountid=14694

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