MARXIST: The fact that the countries most affected by the Ebola virus are among the poorest and most disadvantaged in the world should come to no surprise to any of you.
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM: In this context, how do you view social interactions?
MARXIST: The same countries that have gained their independency de jure in fact remain constrained by new forms of colonization under the guise of a free liberal economy (Daddow, 2013). But we aren’t really speaking of countries. We are speaking of an economic structure, which, due to its hierarchical nature, perpetuates socioeconomic inequalities and stifles the periphery class’s agency (Rupert, 2010).
In actuality, the same class-based powers that benefited from colonialism now author and
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It is in this context that, among the poor nations stricken with Ebola, the majority of those who contracted and die of the disease are women.
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST: In the world that exists as you know it, who stands to gain from reality the way you see it?
MARXIST: Agents are historical social products. Neoliberalism in particular, speaks of the world as if it was predetermined world of “preconstituted social actors.” In doing so it jettisons the possibility of alternative potential worlds. (Rupert, 2010).
To answer your question: it is incontrovertibly the elite class owns the means of production and assumes entitlement to power. The society we live in perpetuates the existing set of implicit social agreements and ordering of the world (Rupert, 2010). Under capitalism, elites have perpetuated their predominance of power while leaving most people vulnerable and economically insecure—all because it serves its own benefit (Hymer, 2006)
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST: In regards to Ebola—
MARXIST [INTERRUPTING]: —Thus, in the current economic system that not only consents to but hinges on gross economic and thereby socio-political inequality, the proletariat are left unable to meet their basic needs and are as a result more susceptible to contracting Ebola (Hymer, 2006).
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST:
Economic freedom is a highly valued principle in American society. Economic freedom gives people the ability to choose for themselves how to spend their money, what occupation they want, and even gives them the ability to leave a job at any time. This economic goal also gives businesses the ability to choose what to produce, where to produce, how to produce, and who to hire. People value the ability to choose how to spend their money. However, as the article “Health Burden Moves to the Middle” by Anna Louie Sussman explains, with Obamacare people are being forced to spend more money on healthcare, and people no longer have as much freedom to decide how and when to spend their money. Today, people are being forced to spend their money on healthcare and then have less money to spend on other necessities and
Unlike HIV or other global viruses, Ebola is until this day geographically restrained, facilitating the deduction that the responsible originated from West Africa or returned from areas confirmed as danger zones. The list of suspects is indeed rather short: it amounts to Western Africans travelling to America and U.S. citizen contaminated in the same region. The latter category is, as cases in the western world indicate, consisted virtually exclusively of humanitarian helpers and health personal having been in contact with Ebola patients. Albeit these categories are subject to broad generalizations, they are the fruit of the apparent human condition to investigate, regardless of the rationality behind the reasoning. Seale baptised these generalisations “health imagined communities” (Seale, 2007, p. 92). Lupton emphasized on the experience that constructed risk communities don’t differ from real risk communities as much in their consequences as they do in their
What was usually a disease contained in regions of sub-Saharan Africa became a global worry. Although the outbreak started in Guinea, it quickly spread to two neighboring countries. From these three countries, cases were then transmitted to the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom. No vaccine was available to stop the spread of Ebola. This deadly disease went from being a problem in only a small region of the world to being seen in three noncontiguous countries, which could have sowed the seeds of a pandemic had the cases not been contained. As a global community, we gain from our interactions with all citizens, but we must also be aware that we can also suffer from diseases that we think of as only affecting the “others.” If we do not help those “others,” we may become part of
In both Ebola Outbreak by Dabbous and A mask on the Face of Death by Seltzer they discuss the social and political problems contributing to the spread of Ebola and HIV/AIDS. These Epidemics continue to spread thought out the world to millions of people. The main areas that these diseases began to spread began in very poverty stricken countries. Not only did poverty play a role in the spread but both Dabbous and Seltzer pointed out the lack of education in the area which leads people to easily be manipulated by stories about the diseases. The cultural practices in these areas contribute majorly to the spread of the Ebola and the AIDS virus. These viruses continue to spread to other parts of the world and is hard to contain to a specific location.
The ruling of the privileged has been around since the conception of organized society. “The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.” This is a quote from social scientist Fredrich Engels that shows the outlook of most people towards a privileged ruling; this system was deemed unfair to the majority, which led to monarchies, the main representative of minority ruling, losing their power. Although we believe the true power in modern democratic societies’ rests on the majority, it truly rests with the powerful elite.
There are many communities with a capitalist and free economy throughout the world; The United States is a perfect example of a capitalist and almost free economy with a small to hefty amount of government regulation dependent upon the industry and occupations involved. The amount of money in a specific economy varies as the gross domestic product is controlled by an income stream of different variations. Take New Cannan, CT which has a median income of $235,000 per year and Greenwich, CT which has a median income of $195,000 per year per household. These incomes are much higher than the $49,000 per year average income in the United States; housing costs also differ between different areas in Greenwich, CT the median house price is $1,200,000
Care of people with Ebola is difficult and varied due to the highly infectious and often fatal nature of the disease. For instance, care can occur through traditional healers, the home, primary health care facilities and hospitals (Manguvo, A & Mafuvadze, B 2015, p. 2). Where a individual seeks care depends on the level of trust in the healthcare system, accessibility and abundance of healthcare facilities, financial and economic stance and cultural beliefs (WHO 2016). There was considerable difference in the ability of health care services to deal with infectious diseases due to scarcity in supplies and training. When the Ebola epidemic began in 2014 Sierra Leone 's government health care system was built on rigid foundations. There were scant resources, limited infrastructure, poor training on infection prevention and control and a severe shortage of health care workers with a ratio of 1.9 workers for every 10,000 people. (Michaels-Strasser et al. 2015, p. 61). The lack of IPC training lead to ‘health care workers being 100 times more likely than the general population to contract Ebola’ (Ratnayake et al. 2016, p. 2). When healthcare workers became infected colleges became frightened further reducing community trust in the healthcare system.
1. This article discusses the people that live in Sierra Leone that were affected by the Ebola outbreak.
Social constructivism states that phenomena must be understood as complex wholes and researchers must understand reality through the perspectives of the participants in a study. Social constructivism advocates hypotheses that are created to achieve meaning through multiple realities formed by diverse human perceptions in a social world. Social constructivism is commonly employed in ethnographies and other types of social research.
Jeffery Reid Instructor: Mrs. McCree Course: Comm 2200 Sec # 2200-048 Date: 10/26/2014 Speech title: Ebola: The New Plague Specific Purpose: My purpose for this speech is to inform my audience about Ebola in West Africa and show parallelism between the reception of aid and treatment between underdeveloped and developed countries. Central Idea Statement: My Central ideas will focus on the history of the disease, what exactly the disease is, and the affects the illness has had on West Africa vs. developed countries like The United States. Introduction I. Attention: The Ebola virus is an epidemic that is a global threat to not only our health but to life, as we know it, which in turn, if left unchecked could eventually become a plague on humanity.
Elites are people who get more of society’s valuables, such as wealth and respect (Wasserman, pg. 4). Power is “the ability to influence another’s behavior” (Wasserman, pg. 3). It can be through rewards, coercion, or persuasion. Legitimate power is power that is “accepted as right” (Wasserman, pg. 4) or chose by using an agreed upon procedure (Wasserman, pg. 5), or authority deserving obedience (Wasserman, pg. 5). Elites gain authority and authority gains power. People feel they should follow authority. This power and authority control politics. If elites are expected to get the most and are the ones who gain authority, etc., then the problem of economic inequality will affect the U.S. by lowering the number of people with legitimate power.
The bourgeoisie are the dominant class that appear to not work and simply live lavishly on Elysium – which
The magnitude of the Ebola virus outbreak of 2014-2015 was unforeseen and unplanned, leading to lasting social, political and economic implications. “The Ebola virus rose from an isolated case and, within 18 months, various countries in West Africa including Sierra Leone, Liveria and Guinea recorded 11, 147 deaths from the virus, including 507 deaths of healthcare workers” (Grinnell, Dixon, Patton, Fitter, Bilivogui, Johnson, Dotson, Diallo, Rodier & Raguhunathan, 2015). Foreign and domestic nurses made up the majority of the healthcare professionals who risked their lives to help contain and treat the Ebola epidemic (“Protect Nurses on Frontline Says ICN”, 2015). Specifically, reports from the International Council of Nurses (ICN) indicate
To understand the effects of free-market capitalism upon modern-day slavery and human trafficking it is necessary to understand what free-market capitalism is. According to dictionary.com, free-market capitalism is defined as “an economic system” that the cost of objects and wages are simply “determined by unrestricted competition between business” without any interference from the government. To comprehend the effects of free-market capitalism on one’s economy, Dr. Davis-Pacheco presented an example of free-market capitalism in Module 4-Lecture 205. For example, one invents a magical potion that will cure laziness. One starts selling this product and it turns out that a company six stores down from one starts selling the product also. Ideally,
‘Every form of society has been on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes…The modern labourer instead of rising with the process of industry, he becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth. Here it becomes evident that thy bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society…Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie, and it’s existence is no longer compatible with society…’ (Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party 1847)