Great Depression

Examples of Great Depression in the following topics:

• The Significance of Social Inequality

  • Just 25 Americans have a combined income almost as great as the combined income of 2 billion of the world's poor.
  • After the Great Depression, this proportion fell as New Deal policies helped distribute income more evenly.

• African Americans as a Political Force

  • The African American trend of voting for Democrats can be traced back to the 1930s during the Great Depression, when Franklin D.

• Social Security Legislation

  • Bear in mind that the passage of the Social Security Act occurred in the heart of the Great Depression, which was the most serious economic downturn ever experienced in the United States.
  • The stock market crash of 1929 sparked the depression and destroyed the value of most Americans' retirement savings.
  • The Social Security Act itself was an attempt to limit what were seen as the dangers of modern American life in the Depression era, including old age, unemployment, and poverty, especially for widows and fatherless children .

• Prisons

  • It was 5.5 times greater than the sharp peak that occurred during the Great Depression at 137 per 100,000 in 1939.

• Income Distribution

  • Economist Paul Krugman and journalist Timothy Noah have referred to this trend as the "Great Divergence."
  • The Great Divergence differs in some ways from the pre-Depression era inequality observed in the early 1900s (the last period of great inequality).
  • Explain the development of income distribution in the US since the 1970's and what is meant by the "Great Divergence"

• Capitalism

  • By the end of the 19th century, economic depressions and boom and bust business cycles had become a recurring problem.
  • In particular, the Long Depression of the 1870s and 1880s and the Great Depression of the 1930s affected almost the entire capitalist world, and generated discussion about capitalism's long-term survival prospects.
  • During the 1930s, Marxist commentators often posited the possibility of capitalism's decline or demise, often in contrast to the ability of the Soviet Union to avoid suffering the effects of the global depression.
  • It is somewhat less known that it leads to the almost complete destruction of economic freedom. " Ravi Batra argues that excessive income and wealth inequalities are a fundamental cause of financial crisis and economic depression, which will lead to the collapse of capitalism and the emergence of a new social order.

• Religion and Social Support

  • A 1993 study by Kosmin & Lachman indicated that people without a religious affiliation appeared to be at greater risk for depressive symptoms than individuals affiliated with a religion.
  • An analysis of over 200 studies contends that high religiousness predicts a lower risk of depression, a lower risk of drug abuse, fewer suicide attempts.
  • These same studies revealed a positive correlation between religious involvement and lower levels of hypertension, depression, and clinical delinquency.
  • In these studies, religious involvement was associated with less depression, fewer suicidal thoughts, and less drug alcohol abuse.

• Social Isolation

  • Extended social isolation can contribute tolate life depression, which is a major depressive episode occurring for the first time in an individual over sixty years of age.

• Social Correlates of Religion

  • For instance, of 498 studies published in peer-reviewed journals, a large majority showed a positive correlation between religious commitment and higher levels of perceived well-being and self-esteem and lower levels of hypertension, depression and clinical delinquency.
  • An analysis of over 200 social studies contends that "high religiousness predicts a lower risk of depression and drug abuse and fewer suicide attempts, and more reports of satisfaction with sex life and a sense of well-being. " A review of 498 studies published in peer-reviewed journals concluded that a large majority of them showed a positive correlation between religious commitment and higher levels of perceived well-being and self-esteem and lower levels of hypertension, depression, and clinical delinquency.
  • Finally, a recent systematic review of 850 research papers concluded that "the majority of well-conducted studies found that higher levels of religious involvement are positively associated with indicators of psychological well-being (life satisfaction, happiness, positive affect and higher morale) and less with depression, suicidal thoughts and behavior, and drug/alcohol use/abuse. "

• Freud

  • The most common problems treatable with psychoanalysis include: phobias, conversions, compulsions, obsessions, anxiety, attacks, depressions, sexual dysfunctions, a wide variety of relationship problems (such as dating and marital strife), and a wide variety of character problems (painful shyness, meanness, obnoxiousness, workaholism, hyperseductiveness, hyperemotionality, hyperfastidiousness).
  • The most common problems treatable with psychoanalysis include phobias, conversions, compulsions, obsessions, anxiety, attacks, depressions, sexual dysfunctions, a wide variety of relationship problems (such as dating and marital strife), and a wide variety of character problems (painful shyness, meanness, obnoxiousness, workaholism, hyperseductiveness, hyperemotionality, hyperfastidiousness).
  • Conflicts between conscious view of reality and unconscious (repressed) material can result in mental disturbances, such as neurosis, neurotic traits, anxiety, depression etc.