Joe Feagin's article starts in a most surprising way. Just given the title of president of the American Sociological Association, Mr. Feagin starts talking about the economy in this article, which seems off to me. As the article progresses, the audience learns just how entwined the economy, politics, and sociology are. The first matter discussed is globalization, and more specifically four main problems of globalization, which negatively affect the world.
The first issue Mr. Feagin points out is that even though the "common-people" watching the news hear that the economy is on the road to recovery and even soon it will be booming again, this is only true of the wealthiest of the world. According to Feagin's article (2001):.
In the United States alone "The top one-fifth of households now has nearly half the income; the bottom one-fifth has less than 4 percent. The top 1 percent of households holds more wealth than the bottom 95 percent, and the wealthy have doubled their share since 1970.".
The ocean that divides the worlds of the wealthy and the common worker continuously grows further apart everyday. Beside monetary status, this divide causes even deeper issues within the working class and the poor, in terms of Dr. Das Gupta's five basic living rights: food, shelter, healthcare, education, and job. .
The second issue Mr. Feagin touches on is of global capitalism being very profitable for the corporate executives, yet devastating the third world countries that are performing the services to produce the goods for the companies. These companies search for the country who has the cheapest raw materials and labor, then go into the country and ravish the land, destroying the natural beauty and depleting the lakes, rivers, ponds, and anything else they can steal for a next to nothing price tag. One example I have is from NOW with Bill Moyers. On the Sunday program entitled "Rich World Poor Women", there was a story about Senegal.
In Racist America, the author Joe Feagin essentially asserts that racism is present in every major part of life. ... Feagin's assertions in Racist America. ... European global domination as Feagin puts it was viewed by whites as "proof of white racial superiority". ... I agree with Feagin once again. ... I would agree again with Feagin. ...
Furthermore, in the Fortune 500 companies, "95 percent of the holders of top corporate positions are white men, yet they make up only 39 percent of the adult population" (Feagin, 256). ... The truth is that "for decades black unemployment has been about twice that of white unemployment" (Feagin, 258). ... This view suggests that white men have "indeed paid a price for some affirmative action programs" (Feagin, 28). Those who have had such an experience believe that they have not directly discriminated, so they "should not have to pay any price through programs such as affirmative action" (F...
In the most basic terms globalization is the homogenization of world culture, politics, and economics. ... Since it is near impossible to study globalization from a holistic perspective I will define each dimension individually in terms of the specific discipline. Economic globalization is probably the most popular and widely debated aspect of globalization. ... Is Cultural globalization a product of economic globalization or is economic globalization a product of cultural globalization? ... According to the article "Pokemania vs. dreaded global trade" (Arizona republic Nov, 28, 1999) It i...
Nothing goes right for Joe either. ... Joe didn't steal just to steal though. ... Joe was different from his family members. ... This means a lot to Joe and I think that if this would have happened a long time ago Joe would not have ended up in the Juvenile Centre. ... There are no happy endings in sight for "Joe the King" but we know that in the end Joe changed his family for the better. ...
According to Joe R. Feagin, author of the book, White Racism, "This account suggests that any African-American, regardless of economic status, can be the victim of discrimination in public accommodations" (81). ... New York writer Deroy Murdock in his provocative article, People in Mirror Are Less Racist Than They Appear. ... Feagin reports that "Psychological studies have found that some whites in interracial contexts avoid acting in what they feel to be blatantly racist ways" (195). ...
The two terms being searched for are 'supply' and 'demand'. ... The way that gasoline prices affects not only the United States economy, but the Global Economy as well is that the prices in Europe increase and decrease according to the way our [the United States] prices are, because both are based on global oil prices. ... In the Global Economy, since that tsunami hit Japan in 2011, all automobile sales have decreased and/or have been in jeopardy. ... Globally, Cyber Monday is that special day of the year for consumers who prefer to shop in their pajamas and online and...
Globalization' is a process said to affect several different aspects of the social world, mainly economics both global and local, global and local politics and global and local culture. ... Globalists believe Globalization is a real and evident process. They argue that examples of a significant shift in the geography of social relations can be seen in terms of economics, culture and politics. ... Globalists generally fall into two categories; Pessimists (whose views will be explored later) and Optimists, who suggest, in terms of cultural globalization, that the world is moving towards...
This paper will discuss the history of globalization, globalization will be defined and the effects had on the world's economy will be analyzed. ... These early waves of globalization provided some useful lessons. ... Dollar and Kraay (2001) identify the top the top developing countries in terms of increases in trade over the past 20 years and label them the "post 1980 globalizers". ... "Thus, the poor countries that have opened up to foreign trade and investment since 1980 have done well in terms of growth and educational attainment. ... In terms of managing and facilitating global integ...
In business situation No. 1 Joe operates a local gardening and tree trimming business. Joe also does some light landscaping work for a few of his commercial accounts. ... Occasionally, a client rents a piece of equipment from Joe's business. Clients sometimes take their time paying for Joe's services and, therefore, Joe is sometimes late paying his bills. ... According to what Joe's goals may be, we suggest that Joe changes his existing business as a sole proprietorship into a corporation. ...
