Poverty. What is your hypothesis?
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Writing Assignment (Part 1): Identifying the Hypothesis Due in Week 3 and worth 50 points
Consider a social issue in which you are interested. It could be human freedom, sexuality, deviance, crime, social mobility, poverty, education, aging, or another similar issue. Select a specific hypothesis that you will evaluate against the available evidence from your library / Internet research.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
· Apply the sociological perspective to a variety of socioeconomic and political problems.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in sociology.
· Write clearly and concisely about sociology using proper writing mechanics.
One of the most social problems all over the world is poverty. Poverty problems are extensive and complex. Poverty has grown to be accepted and understood as a natural appearance in society. Poverty plays a role as being very common in many countries like Philippines. The causes of poverty can be inherited from the family, or it can be from choosing the wrong decision (Mentors International » The Poverty Problem. (n.d.). I think some of the reasons why many people today are facing numerous struggles that include poverty are lack of education, too many population, and government corruption (Causes of Poverty — Global Issues. (n.d.). People who don’t have a good education can’t find a better job to support their family needs (Mentors International » The Poverty Problem. (n.d.). No matter how hard they work, the money is not enough because the expenses are higher than their wages (Causes of Poverty — Global Issues. (n.d.). Having too many children can cause poverty because the more people addition to the family, the more people they have to feed. People in Politics who keep spending government funds for their own sake are causing poverty as well. Poverty is the state for the majority of the world’s people and nation. Several issues of poverty are hunger, illness, crimes, human trafficking, etc.
An example of a poor country is Philippines. The population of the Philippines is estimated at 100,096,496 as of July 1, 2014. Philippines's population is equivalent to 1.38% of the total world population. The Philippines ranks number 12 in the list of countries by population (Google. (n.d.). Many people that I know from Philippines chose to leave their kids and family to work overseas because the values of the money overseas are bigger than the Philippine money. Most of the people in the Philippines who do not have a good education end up working abroad as the domestic helper all over the world. They do not have enough money to send their children to school because the money that they were making is not sufficient to feed their kids. School is not an option to those families who do not have a good income (Mentors International » The Poverty Problem. (n.d.). Some people end up selling themselves for money. For me, the word poverty is another term for poor or unavailable to provide necessary things for my family. A lot of people are starving and homeless in the Philippines that’s why many women in the Philippines are willing to do anything just to feed their kids and family. Most of them end up working as a domestic helper in other countries; like Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Qatar, Hong Kong, Singapore or even in the own country itself.
Sociology is the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society. Sociology is important because it looks at the structure of society and how its components and institutions fit together (Why is Sociology important? | Sociology@Warwick Blog. (n.d.). It helps us to understand how institutions can contribute to socializing individuals in society, and this, as a result, provides a good insight into why we have different cultures.
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