Sociology can be understood as the study of social change, life, and the social consequences and causes of human behavior. It tries to investigate the structure of persons, organizations as well as societies, and how people interact in these contexts. Sociology mainly assesses the structure by probing the dynamics of the constituent components of society (Go, 2017). Furthermore, it tries to study the social status, changes, and movements, and the social disorders inform of deviance, crime, and revolutions. Social life awesomely controls human’s behavior since the human tends to lack the intrinsic instinct that helps in the guide of animal’s behavior (Go, 2017). Therefore, human relies on social organizations and institutions to inform their actions and decisions.
The concept of global inequality might be a contemporary issue, but the disparity between cross-cultures and distant people has a long history, for it was an experience before it becomes an object of statistics and quantification. In most cases, global inequality involves the centralization of resources in certain groups of nations that directly affects persons living within the less powerful countries of the world (Go, 2017). Sociology critically focuses on the reproduction and creation of inequality. The major arrears of social inequality include access to better healthcare, education, quality, and affordable housing, freedom of speech and assembly, and voting right, among many others.
As stated by the famous quote by Haruki Murakami, “the World is an inherently unfair place,” this has seen the rise of equality fighters who are trying to voice the rights of the oppressed. For instance, the 2020 maternal deaths ‘human right crisis’ advocate, who is also the co-founder and the executive director of the “Black Mamas Matters Alliance” (Alliance, 2018). The organization’s vision is to envision a world where Black women have the respect, right, and resources to prosper before, during, and in the post-pregnancy periods. Black Mamas Matters Alliance tries to address the tragedy of the rising maternal mortality in the United States and the widening disparity gap between blacks and white women.
She is 37 years of age and holds a Master of Public Health (MPH), with over 14 years of public health experience. She has served in different positions in projects focusing mainly on cooperating health equality strategies into maternal health initiatives and reproductive, enhancing strategic planning, as well as community-based workforce advancement and data collections. She is passionate and committed to works that mainly seek to achieve self-determination of black women’s rights and leadership following her profession and descent background. She is an American immigrant born of African descent parents, living in Georgia State.
She has become famous in the contemporary American world due to her campaign on changing the narrative and the existing negative stereotypes of black motherhood in the United States. Statistics have it that the U.S records the highest maternal mortality rate in the global north countries (Alliance, 2018). Funnily enough, it is the African American women bearing the disproportionate share of deaths. African American women are more than three times likely to die during pregnancy than their white counterparts, regardless of their social status. She strongly refutes this notion, as she believes that the major course of black women’s die during pregnancy is the racial inequality practices. The African Americans are never listened to whenever they complain of pain whenever they attended health care centers, thus risking their health (Alliance, 2018). Additionally, she has also been developing training and programs, research projects, quality improvement initiatives, and black female advocacy plans to help promote holistic maternity service provision within the State.
In conclusion, the advocator is strongly fighting for the equality of black African American women. She is championing equality in health care services given to the pregnant American women populations regardless of their race. As a health expert, she is using her knowledge to conduct an effective awareness campaign that aims at refuting the notion of only black African American women who dies during pregnancy. And she is called Angela Doyinsola Aina an African American Immigrant.
References
Alliance, Black Mamas Matter. (2018). Setting the standard for holistic care of and for black women.Atlanta, GA: Black Mamas Matter Alliance.[Google Scholar].
Go, J. (2017). Decolonizing sociology: Epistemic inequality and sociological thought. Social Problems, 64(2), 194-199.