Inequality, Social Respectability, Political Power and Environmental Devastation

Although healthy societies may require a degree of material inequality, higher levels of inequality have been linked to negative social consequences ranging from poorer health to lessened democracy. However, the greatest contemporary threat of excessive inequality might be its contribution to increased environmental degradation. Indeed, avoiding devastation of our habitat may be the greatest challenge ever faced by humanity. This article explores the manner in which inequality encourages consumption, by drawing upon Thorstein Veblen’s theory of consumer behavior, whereby in societies in which fluid social mobility is believed possible, inequality encourages households to seek social certification and social status through consumption. Rising inequality strengthens the intensity with which households struggle to maintain social respectability through increased consumption. The ideology, institutions, and behavior generated by this focus on consumption reduce the potential for people to achieve certification of value through more environmentally friendly domains such as work and community. This article also addresses the manner in which inequality impedes responses aimed at reducing environmental damage by augmenting the political power of those whose interests would be harmed by environmental measures. Indeed, the wealthy benefit threefold from pollution: Their disproportionate consumption is made less expensive, their assets yield higher profits, and they are better able to shield themselves from the negative consequences of environmental destruction.Conspicuous consumption, political power, ideology, work quality, community

Values, inequality and happiness

This paper examines the relationship between inequality and happiness through the lens of heterogeneous values, beliefs and inclinations. Drawing upon opinion data from the European Social Survey for twenty-three countries, we find that individual views on a wide range of themes can be effectively summarized by two orthogonal dimensions: moderation and inclusiveness. The former is defined as a tendency to take mild stands on issues rather than extreme ones; the latter is defined as the degree of support for a social model that grants equal rights to everyone who willingly subscribes to a shared set of rules, regardless of background and circumstances. These traits matter when it comes to how inequality affects subjective well-being; specifically, those who are either more moderate or more inclusive than their average compatriots prefer lower levels of inequality. In the case of moderation, inequality aversion can be read in terms of a desire for stability: people who are reluctant to take strong stands are especially wary of conflict, tension and unrest, which often go handin-hand with disparities. In the case of inclusiveness, the main element at play is likely to be distress accruing on a perception of unfairness.happiness, inequality, heterogeneity

The Sufficient Sense: The Value on the Concept of Income Based on Neuro-Psychological-Spiritual Methodology

The objective of the study is to formulate the concept of income based on the sufficient sense. The data collected are actually commercial bank employees’ experience before they resigned from the bank. Based on a spiritualist paradigm, the data are analysed in the framework of neuro-psycho-spiritual methodology by using taubat, zikir, doa, and tafakur (TZDT). The result exhibits that at the level of physical sphere, income is a material object outside of human body that perceived by neuro-system in the brain. The neuro-system stimulates the work of a certain hormone to emerge a certain sense. At a psychological level, the sense is felt as a happiness. But at a spiritual level, the sense is sufficient. It is a spiritual sense of gratefulness to God without complaining how big or small the income earned is

Loma Linda Nurse - Vol. 12, No. 01

Table of Contents 2 | A message from the dean 4 | Loma Linda NURSE news 11 | LLUSN mentoring program 12 | THE MAKINGS OF A LEADER: a visit with Marilyn Christian Smith Gearing 16 | LLUSN development news 19 | Alumni Association president\u27s letter 20 | Alumni homecoming 27 | The everyday hero feature 28 | Near and far 29 | In memoryhttps://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/loma-linda-nurse/1032/thumbnail.jp

Rural Missouri 1995 : challenges and issues.

Executive summary."Project of the University of Missouri--Columbia.""October 1985."Includes bibliographical references

The Independent, Vol. 8, No. 28, April 4, 1968

The Independent was a student run newspaper created in 1960 at Newark State College, now Kean University. The proceeding title was The Reflector. The editor of this issue was Arthur F. Kirk.https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/independent_1965-1969/1099/thumbnail.jp

The BG News November 10, 1988

The BGSU campus student newspaper November 10, 1988. Volume 71 - Issue 49https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5863/thumbnail.jp