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ACTIVITY 6

27 May 2021, 14:14 Publicly Viewable

Modernization theory holds that increase in technology will increase wealth throughout the globe, and that low income nations hence societies develop through a series of evolutionary stages and this stages are based on different degrees and patterns of social differentiation and reintegration of structural  and cultural components.

Dependency theory holds that some nations gained wealth at the expense of other nations especially through colonization thus dependency theory is the nation that resources flow from a periphery of poor and underdeveloped states to a core of wealthy states enriching the latter at the expense of the former.

ACTIVITY 5

27 May 2021, 14:06 Publicly Viewable

1.Improvement in education and health

-Due to the changes in structure of the wconomy there is an increase and progress towards education and health infrastructure . Education and health play a potential role in the development of a country and the key to human capital accumulation and development process.

2.Measuring development

-Economists and policy analysts have seen development as equivalent to economic growth however it also required growth of output as well as a structural social and cultural change thus they use several methods to track economic growth

3.Growth domestic product

-Is the total quantity of goods and services on mometary terms produced in a economy in a given period of time .It measures the domestic levels of production in a country the monetary value of all goods and services produced within a nations geographic borders over a specified period of time

4.Gross national product

-it measures the level of production of all the citizens or corporation of anyonefrom a particular country working or producing in any country.

activity 3

28 Mar 2021, 15:14 Publicly Viewable

Benefit of poverty for individual and the community:

-the government must provide free education to people whose parents are not working.

-the government must provide social grants 

-provide free access to health care and government must provide free houses

-government must provide meals for children in school

-people who are unemployed must also be given the 350 by the government so that they can be shortage of theft

-government must also provide skills and knowledge to individual in order for the to get some jobs and their lives would be better.

activity2

28 Mar 2021, 15:08 Publicly Viewable

1.functionalist perspectives

-this theorical approach it argues that every part of the society such as the community they play a role in the society. It also assume that society is ordely and stable and it aslo state that having social problems can also help to solve other social problems.

 

2. conflict theory

-The approach argues that social problems can develop as a result of inequality faced by other people. Social problems also arise from various kind of social conflict . Hence the conflict theory was indicated by karl marx thus the hypothesis that society is in kind of state of never ending.

activity 1

28 Mar 2021, 14:26 Publicly Viewable

1. Depression 

-it is a social problem because it affect so many people in our daily lives ,also affect the society because they do not have knowledge on how to overcome depression. We can look into the year of 2020 whereby they mentioned about the disease covid19 most people were depressed and some of them lost  their jobs but it did not affect them only but also affected their loved onces.

2.Smash and Grabs

-it is a social problem because it is whereby people steal something from other people it can be either their houses or their shops, and it also values of our society at risk. When people smash and grabs the are those who get injured at the end.

3.Rape

-rape it is also a social problem ,people force themself into others sexually without their permission and this affect the victim through their life time.

4.Fast food

-fast food they do not cause any harm to people but can also affect thier health and can cause obesity and they also consume lot of fast food and they put their lives at risk.

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HIV/AIDS

-It is a social problem, beacause this illness affect not one person but it affect many lives and it also prevent people from living because people who are affected by this illness they have to drink pills for the rest of their lives .It causes depression and some tend to commit sucide.

LATE APPLICATION

24 Mar 2021, 14:14 Publicly Viewable

GOOD DAY IM A STUDENT WHO REGISTRED LATE AND I HAVE NOTICED THAT I MISSED LOT OF WORK