Inequality Case Studies Samples For Students

Abstract

Conditional cash transfer programs are considered as an effective approach to help countries reduce child mortality and improve maternal health.The purpose of this article was to evaluate the effectiveness of conditional cash transfer in the reduction of child mortality and also examine impact of the program on population health through a case study from Brazil, Bolsa Familia conditional cash transfer program. The article summarizes a significant positive correlation between the program implementation and decline in the infant mortality rate i.e. 9.3 percent decline in infant mortality rate and 24.3 percent decline in the post neonatal mortality rate.The articlefurther highlightsthe importance of ...

Vietnam is the country located in the Southeast Asia. It is one of the rising economy in the Southeast Asia. The economy of the Vietnam is one of the fastest growing economy of the world. There has been steady growth in the economy of the Vietnam since long time. Before the 1980s the economy of the Vietnam was highly centralized planned economy. It have shifted to the socialist oriented market economy after 1980s. The economy of the Vietnam is based on the agriculture. They use both directive and indirective planning.
The data presented on the table provides a clear ...

Part One

3. Sociology, social inequality and social structure
On sociology, I have learned about means through which human status can be improved in terms of social and economical development. The major components of sociology entail organizations in form of cultural practices, human activities, religious practices and policies governing these organizations. Sociology aims at developing effective and efficient techniques of improving social life through human activities. Sociology concepts have been formulated by various sociologists such as Max Weber. Sociologist aimed at defining sociology in terms of interactions, cultural practices and resource management.
On social inequality, there is uneven distribution ...

Introduction

Discrimination takes many forms in the society today. It involves a group’s interaction or reaction, restricting an individual or group from opportunities that are accessible to them, resulting in the exclusion of the entities or individual based on irrational or logical or decision making as for the individual persons profile is discriminated based on a logical or a bias reason. There have been many efforts around the world by organizations and governments to eliminate all forms of discrimination.

This essay focuses on sex discrimination at the work place, its challenges and possible solutions. Time has significantly changed towards gender equality in ...

While diversity and equality represent the goal in today’s multicultural society, racialized groups continue to be disadvantaged in the business environment. African-American employees need to work harder in order to keep their jobs and to advance in their careers, and they are more likely to be fired for unsubstantial reasons. African-American women are less likely to be promoted in the corporate world than any other group in the country, including White women. As Galabuzi (94) shows, as of 2000, racialized groups in Canada earned less than Whites, despite having similar studies and experience. Furthermore, racialized groups were more ...

Discrimination and prejudice are some of the major social challenges many people experience in the current generation. The employment industry is one of the social facets that is characterized by incidences of discrimination, inequality and incidences of bias judgment; despite the fact that many activists, employers and labor Unions have implemented initiatives geared towards the reduction of discrimination, little has been achieved. The article provides a detailed discussion of the incidences of unequal treatment directed towards many employees in Wal-Marts Stores one of the biggest employers in the world.

One of the tactics that have been employed in the ...

Inequity

Comparison often gives rise to inequity perception or feeling within employees. This is quite similar to the case at Plantir, where the management observed dissatisfaction and lack of motivation in the employees which eventually resulted in the retirement of Colin (production manager). Although, the company was able to gain its desired objectives (i.e. increase in the level of sales and the generation of cash) but the obsession to increase sales and profit to reduce cash pressures led to the dissatisfaction of several employees, even including the production manager. The sales team was awarded with lucrative bonuses and rewards, whereas ...

Charles Dickens lived during the Victorian era of Great Britain, which comprised Queen Victoria’s reign (from 1837 to 1901). While this period saw the birth of a great many innovations in social and economic prosperity for the British, there were also rampant problems for people living during the Victorian era. One of the most prevalent issues was poverty – there was a huge problem with wealth inequality in Victorian-era England. The Victorian era saw a dramatic population increase in England – the number of British citizens nearly doubled from beginning to the end of the era, and industrialization led to a great deal of ...

Charles Dickens lived during the Victorian era of Great Britain, which comprised Queen Victoria’s reign (from 1837 to 1901). While this period saw the birth of a great many innovations in social and economic prosperity for the British, there were also rampant problems for people living during the Victorian era. One of the most prevalent issues was poverty – there was a huge problem with wealth inequality in Victorian-era England. The Victorian era saw a dramatic population increase in England – the number of British citizens nearly doubled from beginning to the end of the era, and industrialization led to a great deal of ...

CLOSING CASE:

Teams Fuel Global Innovation at Whirlpool
Cross functional team at Whirlpool
Charles Jones came up with cross functional teams with his expertise and knowledge regarding the products that need maximum benefit at Whirlpool. He was actually hired to build a better and a global division that enhanced the cross functional teams, as such he was a Vice president of the company. there were reasons as such to select the cross functional team at Whirlpool because the design of the products matter and as such the new product development part has to be carried with some consequences that led to ...

The African American Civil rights movement was a series of social and political protests whose aim was to bring to an end discrimination and racial segregation. Also, the social movement sought to secure the legal recognition and the protection of the African Americans by the federal government. The leadership of the Civil rights movement comprised of the African-Americans and selected Politicians. The labor union and religious groups were instrumental in financing and the organization of various activities of the social movement (Jamie 2).
According to the African-American movement was a grassroots outfit since most of the activities were organized ...

Background

Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Johannesburg, Netcare is one of the largest South Africa healthcare providers, operating through a wide chain of local hospitals and dental centers. Over the years of the operations the company grew in domestic market organically as well as through acquisition strategy, starting with the acquisition of Medicross, which allowed the organizations to an acquisition of 75 physical facilities, including medical and dental centers across South Africa.
Ricard Friedland, the head of the organization faces several challenges with regards to the future direction of the organization and potential strategies with regards to the organizational ...

The United States is regarded as the largest national economy of the world in its nominal terms, and in accordance with its purchasing power parity, it is the second largest (Henderson, 2014). The GDP of the country in the year 2015 was 17,947.0 billion dollars (Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2016). Whereas China is regarded as second largest economy of the world in terms of nominal GDP, and the largest economy of the world in terms of purchasing power parity (Lei & Yao, 2008) . Further, according to Tse (2010), China is the fastest growing economy in the world. The industries ...

Abstract

The essay looks at the social problem of racism in society. Racial and ethnic minorities are seen a poorer quality of health care as compared to the White non-minorities. Although the sources of these disparities are complex, they are rooted in historic inequities. Racism in health care industry involves many participants and at different levels, such as the healthcare systems, healthcare professionals, and the patients. Stereotyping, biases and uncertainty contribute to disparities in the treatments provided. Minorities experience a range of barriers when accessing health care. The purpose of the essay is to study the social problem and what ...

Management

The Problem Discussed in the Article
The problem, that is discussed in the research paper “Leadership styles of men and women in the Arab world” by the specialist Zahi Yaseen is quite actual till our days. The author chose the United Arab Emirates for the investigation. Men were traditionally dominated in the majority of issues in Arab countries. In this case, the place of women and their rights in society were limited. The woman’s struggle for equal rights for women and men took place in the most of the Arab countries for a long time. It impacts on ...

Poverty in its numerous forms has progressively attracted the attention in Brazil during the last decade. The government has made commitments extremely to reduce the misery from which many poor citizens suffer in their lives. The attention is an encouraging step, but the actual progress is yet painfully slow, even though the measures to increase the livelihoods of the poor are inexpensive. Poverty and inequality have walked hand in hand in Brazil for years since the country has been the most unequal country. Nevertheless, economic liberalization is the only way the country can implement to save its civilians. The ...

Introduction

A woman in Palestine has a major role in her society, which is being part of the formation of the family. The formation of the family has different units, nuclear, transitional, or hamula or the extended family. Hamula or the extended family is the most common family formation in the Palestinian community. The tradition and teachings of the Quran have significant influences for the rights of women in Palestine. Hanan Riyan Bakri, a counselor of Women’s Social and Legal Center based in East Jerusalem traveled throughout the Occupied Territories to lecture Palestinian women about their rights . Generally, parents who are ...

Equality, fairness and justice form the hallmark of a democratic society. Indeed, the creation of equal rights in the Bill of rights was a bold step towards the achievement of the goals of the founders of the nation, who wanted citizens to enjoy the hard won freedom and liberty. However, it could be argued that the Six Amendment was written under the veil of ignorance. This is because a majority of the independent states still allowed slavery and women were not allowed to vote, let alone lead. Women were seen as domestic managers and inferior to men. The level of injustice, inequality ...

Why the U.S. Has the Highest Incarceration Rate in the Western World

ABSTRACT

Since over 70% of the U.S. prison population is black or Hispanic, even though these groups are only 25% of the population, racial disparities in arrests, convictions and sentencing are really the main reason that this country has a higher incarceration rate than any other advanced Western democracy. Indeed, it has more people incarcerated than all other Western nations combined, and for much longer sentences. Overwhelmingly, these offenders have been convicted on drug charges, and even though minorities use narcotics at the same rate as whites, they are ...

The articles are about modern day economists giving alternative ways of measuring the Gross Domestic Product of a country other than by the monetary value of final goods and services in the country. They argue that Gross Domestic product does not take into account adverse economic growth effects like pollution in its accounting. In addition, it does not take into account the informal economy like leisure time and life quality in its accounting of the GDP. Through time, economists have suggested other ways to measure a nation’s economic health by mainly focusing on well-being measures. China and the U.S have ...

Abstract

Cultural sensitivity is an issue that is central to health and ethnicity, and also to creating programs for disease prevention and health promotions for varying ethnic and racial populations. The rationale, under which programs for promoting health are build, is based on three basic observations; the varying patterns in the predictors of the behaviors of health, different groups show; the differences in the rates of disease prevalence as indicated by various ethnic and racial groups; and the patterns exhibited by the same groups in the prevalence of risk factors imposed by their behaviors. The differences between the prevalence rates ...