Social Movements and Challenges Economic Inequality

HOW DO SOCIAL MOVEMENTS CHALLENGE
INEQUALITY?

Table of Contents
HOW DO SOCIAL MOVEMENTS CHALLENGE INEQUALITY? ..........................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Social movements and challenging inequality............................................................................3
Human rights challenging economic inequality..........................................................................3
New Feminism in Europe challenging inequality.......................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Social movement is a type of group action in which social changes were carry out. It can
be defined as organizational structure and tactics that may empower oppressed population to
resists more advantage and powerful elite group. The present study aims to evaluate how social
movements are responsible for inequality. The study consists two social movement and will try
to evaluate legal, political and sociological perspective. Inequality can be in many terms such as
in terms of education, income level, male and female, etc. the study will concentrate on
economic inequality and inequality between male and female in the country.
MAIN BODY
Social movements and challenging inequality
Social movement are purposeful activity in which organized group strive to work on a
common goal (Basu, 2018). There are many movements made for equality but somehow some
where it challenge inequality. Social movement are large, informal grouping of individuals who
come together against power holder around a common issue. Apart from the social movement,
there are many other factors that drive inequality such as; entrenched cultural narratives, unfair
rule and policies of the economy, persistent prejudice and discrimination. Inequalities will make
the cross cutting ambition of the sustainable development goals of Europe (Dovidio and et. al.,
2017). The legal instrument of the government are heavily, disproportionately influenced by the
movements that are becoming bias day by day. It mainly depends on the legal perspectives,
political perspectives, sociological perspective. There are many terms in which inequality can be
seen such as, workplace, pay system, public services, educations, etc. The European Social
Movement stated that inequality is raising and people are required to come together to fight
against inequality in Europe.
Human rights challenging economic inequality
Extreme in equality is one of the major issue in Europe with the gap between poor and
rich. It is a critical public policy issue (Escobar, Dagnino and Alvarez, 2018). The economic
inequality refers to treat people by their wealth status. Inequality is a threat to human rights that
is stated as a consequences or cause of human rights violation. This also leads towards social
right abuses. Spain has experience a sharp rise in economic inequality after the economic crises
of 2008 that became one of the most unequal in Europe.
Legal perspective