This paper examines poverty as a prominent form of social injustice, labeling it a critical issue affecting people's ability to meet basic needs such as food, shelter, and clothing. It identifies historical, political, and social factors contributing to poverty and its negative societal impacts, including malnutrition, illiteracy, crime, and poor health outcomes. The document concludes by advocating for civic engagement and welfare systems as potential solutions to alleviate poverty and enhance community involvement.

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Date: Saturday, June 06, 2015POVERTY AS A SOCIAL
INJUSTICEINTRODUCTION
This paper is going to discuss what social injustice is and
take a critical look at poverty as an example of a social
injustice. From a sociological point of view, there are two kinds
of poverty. In this paper I will address relative poverty. The
poor in this paper are regarded as those who lack what is
needed by the average population so as to be able to live in a
decent manner because their income is rated as being lower than
the country’s’ median income
Social injustice is defined as the process of acting and
being unfair or unjust in your treatment to others. In this case,
when one acts in this manner, he infringes or violates the rights
of other people. Social injustice examples therefore include
situations like improper or unfair distribution of opportunities
and resources, oppressing people using any form, and denying
people the freedom to exercise rights, desires and ensuring that
they don’t realize their full potential. (Sarat)
Examples are when people are treated in inhumane ways
hence depriving them of basic needs as food, shelter and
clothing, work opportunity, political freedom, poverty in
specific groups or communities, high unemployment rates,
bullying and even hate crimePOVERTY AS A SOCIAL
INJUSTICE
Poverty is rated as being amongst the greatest
predicaments being faced in the world today. Poverty is defined
as the state where people are unable to meet the demands of
their basic needs such as food, shelter and clothing and is
categorized as being either absolute or relative.

2. Poverty is a very real predicament in our world today. This is
due to the fact that it affects the larger segment of the entire
population and that there are several cases of people being
homeless, many sleep on the streets, lack food and even
clothing. It is also manifested when they are work for longer
hours and for less money. (Haughton, Jonathan and
Shahidur)WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF THIS SOCIAL
INJUSTICE?
Poverty as a form of social injustice is caused by several
factors that are discussed below.
Historical issues are considered as having contributed to
poverty being rampant in many nations since many nations that
have high poverty levels or that are poor were former colonies
of modern rich nations. These nations exported slaves from the
poor countries and took away many resources from these
nations to their benefits. In this case, this colonialism helped
cultivate fertile conditions that would prevent the locals from
owning land, getting education, capital and many other
resources that would enable them support themselves
adequately.
Civil wars and political instability: The above issues are
directly attributed to creating poverty since. With the presence
of security, and stable country, a country will definitely be
successful since natural resources can be harnessed either
individually or collectively, education and talent will breed
fertile ground for the civilians to be able to work and reap fruits
of their hard work.
National debt has led to many countries to bear the debt load as
a result of debt from loans given to them by the wealthy nations
and international bodies like the world band. Countries are
therefore left to place their national priorities in paying off the
debts rather than improving the lives of its citizens
Social inequality and discrimination there are many cases of
discrimination such as gender discrimination that has resulted in
the marginalization of both women and children, thus rendering
them very poor. Inequality in income distribution is also a

3. factor that contributes to poverty. Natural disasters have been
attributed to causing poverty since most countries that are
vulnerable to natural disaster have high poverty levels hence
become a great obstacle to poverty eradication. Disasters
include floods, earthquakes and droughtWHAT ARE THE
EFFECTS OF THIS SOCIAL INJUSTICE?
This form of social injustices has so many negative effects
on the society because the persons living in abject poverty have
a very low living standard since the hardly afford access to
healthcare, education and food. (Glyn, Andrew and David)
Poverty takes a toll on poor children’s development. For
example, poverty causes malnutrition which would affect the
development of a child’s mental thinking and healthy
body. Poverty may also lead to political instability and lead to
increased risk of war, mass emigration of population and
terrorism.
Malnutrition is a significant effect of poverty since
children are the greatest casualty of this form of injustice. The
society being unable to get access to nutritious food
subsequently gets malnourished because they have a low
purchasing power. More to this, healthiest food stuff is also
expensive and they opt to go for cheap stuff that is also
insufficient to satisfy them.
Health is affected because people are unable to access
cheap and quality healthcare. Medicines are out of reach hence
people lack basic resources to maintain a good health living
environment. Because they are unable to feed properly, their
immunity is compromised and their bodies unable to fight
disease, hence reducing their life expectancy including the child
mortality rates
The education pattern in the society is affected by poverty
because a larger part of the population is unable to attend
schooling from an early age. Most families are totally unable to
buy the basic school supply and clothing and would rather spend
the gotten money on purchasing food. This result in a larger
section of the population being illiterate leading to where

4. people are unable to attend schooling and attaining basic
education, hence with the lack of educations, they become
victims of poverty
Poverty on the economy: The number of people living in
poverty has a direct impact the rate of employment and hence it
affects the economy of the country. This leads to a weak
economic system since the lack of proper education because
people cannot get proper paying jobs. (Logan, John and Harvey)
Poverty impact on the society: poverty has led to many people
in the society to live in abject poverty since many live on the
streets. It subsequently leads to an increase in the crime rates.
This is because when a larger section of the society has no form
of income, they resort to different forms of crime to be able to
eke a living. (Simon and Thomas)IN WHAT WAYS CAN CIVIC
ENGAGEMENT WORK TO SOLVE THIS SOCIAL
INJUSTICE?
Civic engagement can help mitigate this social injustice
through different means. Proper welfare systems can be created
to bring the poor population closer and involve them in
activities in the society that can improve their livelihood and
subsequently have an actively involved civil society. The ways
in which they act can also help. There has to be a lot of
attention concentrated on the manner in ways that the political
structures and way in which the civic society engagement is.
(Gutmann, Amy and Sigal)
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Glyn, Andrew and Miliband David. Paying for inequality: The
economic cost of social injustice. Institute for Public Policy
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Gutmann, Amy and Ben‐Porath Sigal. Democratic education.
John Wiley & Sons, 1987.
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Simon and W Thomas. Democracy and social injustice: law,
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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Glyn, Andrew and Miliband David. Paying for inequality: The
economic cost of social injustice. Institute for Public Policy
Research, 1994.
The authors take a look at the overall effects of poverty from a
socio economic perspective. The authors use credible sources to
gather facts and elaborate on the short term and long term
effects of this form of social injustice
Gutmann, Amy and Ben‐Porath Sigal. Democratic education.
John Wiley & Sons, 1987.
The authors focus on how the importance of empowering the
society can help in mitigating poverty and eventually reduce the
impact of poverty. The authors focus their energies on why the
community needs to be actively involved in this entire process
so as to achieve the target
Haughton, Henry Jonathan and R Khandker Shahidur. Handbook
on poverty and inequality. World Bank Publications, 2009.
The authors in this book take an in-depth look at describing the
different methods of measuring, analyzing, monitoring poverty
through the use of a lot of explanatory information and diverse
examples that will help the reader clearly get the concept of
what poverty is and how it becomes an inequality in the society.
The information is made real through the use of modern
statistical methods and software
Logan, R John and L Molotch Harvey. Urban fortunes: The
political economy of place. . Univ of California Press, 2007.
The authors are Professors in American universities and they
analyze what are the impacts of poverty. The book looks at the
connection between the levels of poverty in the society and how
it subsequently impacts on the society and the eventual creation
of a weak economic system and education

6. Sarat, Austin, Austin. Speech and Silence in American Law. .
Cambridge University Press, 2010.
The author of this book is a professor at Amherst College in
Massachusetts, and lectures on political Science. In this book,
the author addresses issues relating what social injustice is and
what are its causes. The author tries to analyze the main issues
how the society faces the different forms of social injustices
and the overall effects of the same
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Describe the roles of the World Bank (WB), International
Monetary Fund (IMF), and World Trade Organization (WTO) in
the acceleration of globalization.
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Some people believe that the right of privacy should be
extended to the workplace. Others feel that, on the contrary,
that such an extension would constitute an unwarranted
incursion into the management's right to manage.
1. Please comment on this debate, using examples from the text
discussion of electronic monitoring, romance in the workplace,
employee drug testing, and employee honesty testing.
2. Are there particular circumstances under which it is, or is
not, appropriate for employers to monitor employee
behavior? Discuss two (2).