Social position reflects personal talents and abilities in a competitive economy. Unequal rewards boost economic production by encouraging people to work harder and try new ideas. Linking greater rewards to more important work is widely accepted. The social-conflict approach also looks the problem from a macro level of analysis. Stratification is a division of a society’s resources that benefits some people and harms others.
“Gentrification of DUMBO” Gentrification was introduced in the mid to late 1900’s and was illustrated as the conversion of socially marginal and working class areas of the central city to more affluent residential use by Dr. Judith N. DeSena in “What’s a Mother to Do” and “Gentrification, Schooling, and Social Inequality.” Gentrification is a process that began with the gentry who were middle class wealthy individuals or groups that came into the area and imposed change upon the lower working class area making it into a more affluent residential area. Large groups of people ranking closely to each other in wealth, power, and prestige, are all part of the same social class that came to existence because of the gentry. One idea to bear in mind is that social stratification, the structural inequality characterized by groups of people with different access to the rewards of society because of their relative position in the social hierarchy, coexists with different social classes. People are stratified according to their race, which are physical differences and ethnic differences that are learned and not inherited, and their ethnicity, which is identified on the basis of it common language, national heritage, and biological heritage. A Marxist idea known as the Social Conflict Theory, argues how groups within a society own different amount of resources, which is the defining the line between wealthy vs. poor, and also emphasizes how powerful groups use their power to exploit groups that hold less power.
In 1929, it merged with Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Company to form Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates. Later in 1955 this enterprise merged with the Hathaway Manufacturing company—a textile manufacturing outfit—founded by Horatio Hathaway, to form Berkshire Hathaway Inc. In 1962 Buffet began buying stock in Berkshire Hathaway after noticing an intriguing pattern in the price direction of its stock whenever the company closed a mill. In 1964, Seabury Stanton—president of Berkshire Hathaway at the time— made Buffet an offer to buy back all the shares he had obtained from the company. A small quarrel between these two people over the price of the stocks led Buffet to buy up most of the shares in the company and eventually fire Stanton.
LEADERSHIP AND MANGEMENT IN SOCIAL CARE Identify factors that influence policy drivers One factor is cost, businesses around the globe are looking and always will be looking for cost effective ways of doing things to get either the same out come or an improved outcome, one way health and social care has changed and will continue to change is because of cost implications, the economic (recession) has impacted on cost and one thing that this has had a impact on is the level of 1:1 support needed by service users, this is not to say they do not receive good quality care and support it means assessments are done by local social services who see where they can cut funding for the individual’s, this also has financial implications for staff as
As the geographic and cultural distances of immigration countries have increased over time, so has the ethnic composition of Germany. [ii] As such the public perception of immigrants has undergone a great deal of change over time. The history of immigration to Germany can be separated into four distinct phases. In the immediate Post-war years, immigration mainly consisted of ethnic German Refugees expelled from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. In the period from 1955 to 1973 the West German Government sought to address labour shortages via labour recruitment from within Europe using the ‘guest worker’ policy, the recruitment of labour from mainly Mediterranean countries on temporary contracts.
This will encourage development in those favoured rather than the others. This means that eventually there will be a group of highly developed cities and a group of the complete opposite. The concentration of low-income people and new immigrants in a city can also lead to urban decay because of poverty. The residents are looking for easy access to work. However, this carries with it social issues.
Two causes for this being the fact that land and housing costs are cheaper compared to cities, and higher property and business taxes have pushed businesses to the suburbs where taxes are typically low. Some argue that this could be positive for the growth of a local economy or the fact that it will do nothing but ruin the environment around us. Destruction of animal and plant life, the pollution it brings to the air, and the natural beauty of the wildlife being destroyed are just some of the reasons why so many citizens are opposed to this idea of "Urban Sprawl". Rural living areas on the other hand are not so much frowned upon. Houses are spread vastly apart leaving abundant room for gardens and fields.
The city centre councils have realised that there has been a decline in the city centre and urban decay has began, so the city centres have started to move back. An example of the decentralisation of retail is the movement of retail from the Birmingham city centre to the out of town retail centre that is the Merry Hill shopping centre. Shopping and retail has experienced changes in its characteristics in recent times, with the invention of the freezer this now allows people to do a weekly shop with will see them through the week whereas before freezers were common place in the home it meant that people had to go out every couple of days to the bakers, butcher and green grocers to get fresh food. There has also been a change in the shopping experience whereas before people would go to a town centre for a specific shop for a specific item, they will now go for the ‘experience’ of the shopping centre with people now going to eat, watch a film and got to cafes in the shopping centre. There has also been a movement of housing, traditionally the working class being near the industrious parts of the city centre and the high class people being near the centre so they can commute to work in the centre but they are as far away from the industry as possible due to all the
Critical Review of the Article The importance of economic growth should be considered in context of the impact of growth on environment. It is observed that economic growth tends to negatively impact the environment during its initial phase but growth leads to positive outcomes over the long-term. The focus of governments is to first improve the economic well being of their citizens and as the economic conditions improve the regulatory authorities direct their attention towards improvement of the environmental conditions. This article correctly suggests that the negative impact of growth on the environment is the result of inadequate and poor implementation of international law regarding the protection of environment (Troy 2011, pp. 1-6).
The welfare state may be considered as an ideological state apparatus which serves to secure the legitimacy of continued inequalities in capitalist societies. Discuss Most industrialised and industrialising countries in the world today are welfare states. These states play a central role in the provision of welfare through a system that offers services and benefits that meet people’s basic needs such as healthcare, education, housing and income. The role of a welfare state involves managing the risks faced by people over the course of their lives for example sickness, disability, job loss and even old age. The services provided by welfare states differ from country to country, some have highly developed systems than others (Giddens, 2009).