Economic Abuse

Examples of Economic Abuse in the following topics:

• Child Abuse

• Family Violence

  • In this definition, domestic violence takes many forms, including physical aggression or assault, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, controlling or domineering behaviour, intimidation, stalking, passive/covert abuse, and economic deprivation.
  • Economic abuse is a form of abuse when one intimate partner has control over the other partner's access to economic resources.
  • Economic abuse may involve preventing a spouse from resource acquisition, limiting the amount of resources to use by the victim, or by exploiting economic resources of the victim.
  • Due to economic abuse and isolation, victims usually have very little money of their own and few people on whom they can rely when seeking help.
  • Discuss the various types of domestic violence, such as physical or economic, as well as the effects on all people involved

• Elder Abuse

• The Older Years

  • Abuse of the elderly is a serious problem in the U.S.
  • Abuse refers to psychological/emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and caregiver neglect or financial exploitation, while self-neglect refers to behaviors that threaten the person's own health and safety.

• Spousal Abuse

• Economic Sociology

  • Economic sociology is the study of the social causes and social effects of various economic phenomena.
  • Economic sociology is the study of the social causes and social effects of various economic phenomena.
  • Influential figures in modern economic sociology include Fred L.
  • In some cases, contemporary economic sociology borrows mathematical tools and economic theories such as utility maximization and game theory.
  • Examine the two periods of economic sociology - classical and contemporary - and the difference between economic sociology and socioeconomics

• Differential Treatment by Age or Ageism

  • Abuse refers to psychological/emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, caregiver neglect or financial exploitation while self-neglect refers to behaviors that threaten the person's own health and safety.

• Informal economy

  • An informal economy is economic activity that is neither taxed nor monitored by a government and is contrasted with the formal economy as described above.
  • Although the informal economy is often associated with developing countries, all economic systems contain an informal economy in some proportion.
  • Informal economic activity is a dynamic process which includes many aspects of economic and social theory including exchange, regulation, and enforcement.
  • Examples of informal economic activity include: the sale and distribution of illegal drugs and unreported payments for house cleaning or baby sitting.

• Multinational Corporations

  • Multinational corporations play an important role in the world economy through the process of economic globalization; in other words, the increasing economic interdependence of national economies across the world through a rapid increase in cross-border movement of goods, services, technology and capital.
  • Proponents of economic globalization argue that the economic benefits are widely shared between different parts of society, discounting critics who point to rising inequality between the rich and poor within nations who have joined the global market.
  • Not all observers of economic globalization have a positive evaluation.
  • Finally, economic globalization may result in unequal economic relations of dependency between developing and developed countries.
  • They may feel that without these forms of economic connection, their country cannot survive.

• Mexico's Economy

  • Mexico's rapid economic changes have led to huge gains in GDP, but have caused social problems such as stratification and inequality.
  • The years from 1930-1970, during which Mexico instituted its new protectionist economic policy, have been dubbed by economic historians as the "Mexican Miracle," a period of economic growth and capital accumulation.
  • Thus, Mexico became one of the most open countries in the world to trade, and the economic base shifted accordingly to exports and imports .
  • Mexico's economic development has been substantial.
  • Consequently, infrastructure, social development, education, and economic growth have lagged behind in southern states.