Humanities 1: Analyzing Societal Unrest at the Turn of the Century

This report, titled "Sources of Growing Unrest at the Turn of the Century," analyzes the complex factors contributing to societal issues in the early 21st century. It identifies key sources of unrest, including increasing crime rates, global warming, and population growth. The report explores how these factors interact, leading to social violations such as indiscipline, disrespect for authority, and open social injustice. It examines the impact of global warming and the rise in population on human needs and behaviors. The report also discusses the role of sovereignty, international agreements, and their influence on employment and taxation policies, which further exacerbate social unrest. The author references specific literature to support the analysis of these complex issues.

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Sources of Growing Unrest at the Turn of the Century
The sources of societal ills plaguing the modern era at the turn of the 21st Century can
barely be categorized due to their uncountable nature, as concerned with their assertion. The
most prominent among these social unrests entail increasing crime rates, unchecked global
warming, child abuse, cultism, lack of respect for authority, unemployment, high levels of
indiscipline and juvenile delinquency, rapid injustice, open discrimination, and excessive
ambition. Studies categorize these social ills into two main categories – norm and social
violations. These violations are mainly propagated by rapid population increase, and lack of
sovereignty in civil administration (USIP, 2009).
The world has, very rapidly, arrived in an unchartered territory commonly referred to as
the Anthropocene climate regime. However, this is mostly due to the increase in human
population which has quadruples, thereby resulting in a significant rise in energy consumption.
In fact, at the turn of the century, the issue of global warming and fossil fuel greenhouse gases
prompted increasing concern for climate-related problems. Further still, the rise in population has
hastened psychic and material anguish among specific types of people. The large population
requires not just shelter, employment, security, food, respect, and opportunities for self-
realization, but also proper sustenance, and esteem. Often, when these needs are not catered for,
people become hostile towards the norms in the society in the form of indiscipline, disrespect to
authority, selfish ambition, delinquency, and open social injustice (Reale, 2018).
Much talk on social unrest also relates to the lack of absolute sovereignty. In reality,
nations often allows for the breach of sovereignty to their advantage. For example, as of 2001,
several international agreements have been passed along the lines of international trade, human
rights, transport and communication. However, there are some, such as the European Union,

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which openly restricts sovereignty to an extent. This has led to several accounts of crimes against
humanity in the form of mass murder, slavery, rape, open affliction, and acts of disappearance,
open misinterpreted as systematic remedies towards certain acts in the civil society. These social
violations have also altered specific policies to influence matters of employment, including
taxation policies, and amendments in workforce compensation, thus causing a hike in levels of
unrest as seen in increasing crime rates (USIP, 2009).

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References
Reale, E. (2018). A review of literature on evaluating the scientific, social and political impact of
social sciences and humanities research . Research Evaluation, 298–308.
USIP. (2009). Confronting Crimes Aginst Humanity. Washington, DC: United States Institute of
Peace.