How Are Social Issues Different From Economic Issues?
January 16th, 2010 by admin | Filed under social.I have to answer this for class. However, I’m not sure what the right answer is. What I’ve come up with so far is that economic issues such as men and women receiving equal pay, are affected by social issues, such as society’s view that a woman’s work is less important. Any ideas?
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You might want to tackle this in the way that you suggest, which is that the two sets of issues are highly interrelated. If this is for a sociology class, the teacher will probably have his/her own opinion about what constitutes an economic or social issue. I’m guessing that you have been presented with a rather narrow definition of the concerns of economists. Economists are interested in just about any topic that sociologist are. Take divorce, clearly there is a social component, but the economics of divorce is interesting too. Perhaps you could present your teacher with several examples of situations where you think the social side dominates, or the economic side dominates, and some where they are so intertwined as to be hard to pull apart.
There are a lot of social issues which have no relation to economics at all, both at national levels of society, and at family levels. Social issues are more of the abstract type (which you can’t show physically) but most of the economic issues are of the concrete type (which you can show physically).
For example relegious fundamentalism. Religious fundamentalists don’t quote any economic concerns. Their only point is the kind of belief in God.
Simlarly at the level of a family, there could be a social issue due to economics involved, like living standards, who should work, etc. But sexual issues are not related to economics in the family. Similarly bringing up children with cultural values.
Explore also the other way, social issues determined by economical situations. Economy and society arestriclty intertwined, when one moves the other moves too accordingly.
The difference between social and economical issues is only matter of perspective but actually they are the two sides of the same coin.