1. Africa and Aids
Many people now feel that science can"t solve all of the social problems that our world currently faces. ... Also, during this time period, many of the social problems that come as a result of technological advancements began to appear. ... Science has also begun to be more geared towards improving social problems. As a result of the AIDS epidemic, a massive amount of AIDS research has been performed to help improve the lives of people who contract AIDS. ... As a result of the backlash against science in the past couple of years, the scientific community has become more socially- conscious...
The Zulu culture has practiced polygamy for decades and it has become a symbol of the male's social status as well as wealth. ... In a polygamous relationship one husband shares a sexual relationship with multiple wives, which leads to an increased risk of contracting HIV. ... If a man is married to several women you can see how the probability of contracting a harmful virus is likely. ... Polygamy is an important part of the social culture found in South Africa. ...
Some motives that these people can have are corresponding to current economic situation, political situation, and social situations. ... When this form of migration is legally contracted it if referred to as wage labor migration. ... Secondly, displaced persons are people who are forced to move based on social situations occurring around them. ... They are people who move into a social situation, either voluntarily or involuntarily. ... Many people are also critical because research shows how modernization often brings environmental ruin, increases social inequality, destroys indigenous cultur...
"[B]ody piercing [is a] common form of body art that has become more socially acceptable and increasingly popular in the U.S. over the past several years."... If you are pierced with an unsterilized needle, you can contract HIV, Hepatitis, or other blood-transmitted diseases. ...
As migrants flowed within the British empire, Asians who arrived in Kenya were given greater access to social, educational and capitalist opportunities by the colonials, as a result of higher 'racial' status (also Bennell 1982, p131). ... Even in some instances when the British expressed a desire to provide better social programs for education, as in Tanganyika, there were various obstacles to their success. There was some apathy to participating in these programs, due to their perception as 'European' social processes, as well as conflict between the different schools of t...
Of the functions they did perform, maintaining trading contracts with other Southeast Asian countries was probably most important. The social lives of citizens were still dependant on the strict caste system, which regulated everyday life of the people of India. ... This growth of trade resulted in thriving African cities, such as Timbuktu, and helped develop new social and political patterns in a wide stretch of Africa below the Sahara. ...
AIDS affects the political, economic, and social structure of African society. ... "Lack of social cohesion, conflict, and underdevelopment have undermined the development of a strong civil society and the vibrant, independent and committed judiciary needs to uphold civil law." ... According to the Diane Richardson, author of Women and AIDS, in poorer areas one needle may be used to inject dozens of people increasing the risk of contracting HIV. ... It is preventing African nations from maintaining political stability and from making economic and social progress. ...
This became essential to the colonists because the whites could concentrate more on the social businesses, such as trading and politics, while the African slaves would tend fields. ... As the colony grew profitable due to the seven year of hard labour that servants have done, the contracts of the servants were concluded and the settlers were reluctant to lose their labourers. ...
This might be happening because when an aid worker is put in a position where there is isolation (one aid worker in a whole village) and when that worker feels superior to the villagers, the different status and social culture may enable sex scandals to happen. ... While sexual abuse has a negative affect on the children of Africa by spreading fear, it can also lead to the workers contracting the AIDS virus (Moszynski, 2002). ...
Except for a few social deviants, neither Africans nor Europeans would enslave members of their own societies, but in the early modern period, Africans had a somewhat narrower conception of who was eligible for enslavement than had Europeans. ... The slave trade was thus a product of differing constructions of social identity and the ocean-going technology that brought Atlantic societies into sudden contact with each other. ... Because Amerindians died in large numbers, and insufficient numbers of Europeans were prepared to cross the Atlantic, the form that this demand took was shaped by con...
THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY Brief economic history During the 1960s the South African economy expanded at an annual average rate of 5,5 percent and experienced average inflation of 2,4 percent. This compared with annual growth of 5,0 percent in industrialised Organisation for Economic Corporation and Development (OECD) countries and inflation of 2,9 percent. Dollar per capita income grew 73 percent during the decade. The 1970s were turbulent years internationally and the domestic economy grew by only 3,2 per cent per annum (versus 3,4 percent in OECD countries). Relative economic performan...
