Born into Brothels: features that impact the children
Numerous dimensions affect a child’s development. The psychological feature, which includes self-awareness, emotions, and cognitions affects the formation of the child’s personality, activity, communication pattern, and self-determination (Hutchison, 2012). If children live in difficult psychological conditions like in the movie, they can either start reflecting the outside world or vice versa to distinguish themselves from it and strive for developing their inner world (Briski & Kauffman, 2004).
In such situations, each new social contact will change the self-perception of the child contributing to its versatility. The result of psychological features can occur in conscious behavior because of the child’s self-representations (Parrish, 2014). Also, another aspect of personal development is the spiritual feature, which is based on the accumulated thoughts of the young person. The desire to cognize the meaning of life involves the quest for the internal integrity and constancy of the personality.
In the process of development, children are involved in various activities and constantly interact with the environment. The child is born in a concrete culture, and he or she gradually becomes a member of this cultural society (Hutchison, 2012). The culture can influence the child greatly and calls him or her to either reject or accept the cultural norms and postulates.
The fact of belonging to a particular cultural group, in which there are standards and its social and substantive features of lifestyle, acts as a source of personal development, and it influences the developmental potential of the individual and influences the child’s choice of different types of activities (Parrish, 2014). Based on the assimilation of socially evolved modes of behavior in a particular culture a child can accept or reject the postulates propounded by it. The formation of the child’s intellectual powers takes place as a result of the orientation process.
The physical environment (water, sun, landscapes, architecture, living conditions) plays a crucial role (Hutchison, 2012). The body of the child is constantly exposed to a variety of environmental effects (positive or negative ones). The conditions inevitably affect the physical and mental development of each child. As evidenced by the end of the movie, all the dimensions are interconnected, they overlap and correlate with the child’s evolution and define his or her strivings (Briski & Kauffman, 2004).
Philosophical approach to explain poverty in America
Oligarchy is the philosophical approach that reflects the gap and relation between great wealth and inequality in society. However, this worldview reverberates with the question of ideology, in the first place. The oligarchy is built on the foundation of the classical liberal ideology, the basis of which is the acceptability of the accumulation of wealth and inheritance (Krismer, 2012).
Also, throughout history, religion encouraged people to work hard and save money. The American people encourage like many other nations the pursuit of enrichment, and the success in this path is considered not only the financial but also spiritual attainment. The wealth in this sense shall be considered a sign of virtue. Moreover, the Puritan worldview suggests that even courted wealth, a person cannot spend time in an idle rapture of it and should continue to work hard, thus becoming even richer in all the meanings (Krismer, 2012).
In other words, wealth is not perceived as something empty and transitory, but the reverse, if a person lives worse than a neighbor does, it implies that he or she did not work that well. Poverty is a consequence of the oligarchy while a big number of the poor is stagnating when the ultra-rich are making higher profits. It happens because the rich secure their wealth from taxation this way placing the strain on the shoulders of the poorer citizens (Rowse, 2012).
The concept of social justice implies that the state should take the leading part in maintaining the balance (Barusch, 2015). It is to be achieved through the reallocation of wealth through taxes. Nevertheless, the rich do their best to keep their wealth safe; consequently, the existing gap is growing. Ultimately, all disputes are limited to pure ideology while the oligarchy is a natural product of certain economic, legal, and political settings.
References
Barusch, A. S. (2015). Foundations of social policy: Social justice in human perspective (5th ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson Brooks/Cole.
Briski, Z., & Kauffman, R. (2004). Born into brothels.
Hutchison, E. (2012). Essentials of human behavior. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Krismer, J. (2012). The new world oligarchy. New York, NY: CCB Publishing.
Parrish, M. (2014). Social work perspectives on human behavior. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.
Rowse, T. (2012). Rethinking social justice. Canberra, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.