Joe Feagin's Article In Terms Of Globalization

In the 1950's the country had one of the model systems of education and healthcare systems for third world countries. Recently, they borrowed money from the World Bank to get on its feet, the World Bank then decided to step in and "help" Senegal. Now, the countries state is almost irreparable. Most hospitals and schools have closed, fishing rights have been signed over to other countries for money, fresh water is now a utility which is paid for, and women are pulled out of work to care for the sick and elderly.
             The third globalization issue is the concern, or lack there of, for the environment. Again, companies that go into these countries use up as much natural recourse as possible before moving on to the next country. Great problems have been linked to this such as quality and availability of water, disease, deforestation, pollution, depletion of the ozone layer, and coastal flooding.
             The last issue Mr. Feagin writes about those issues of social inequality and injustice. Mr. Feagin notes .
             " I only have space to note briefly such major societal realities as racial and ethnic oppression, patriarchy, homophobia, bureaucratic authoritarianism, violence against children, and discrimination against the aged and the disabled" (Feagin 2001). .
             The article goes on to state that throughout the 1900's sociologists have been fighting divided between the "elitist" ones that want a more "detached" form of sociology generally geared towards grants and funding for capitalistic backed research versus the mainly women and minority sociologists that want to study the real problems of society. While Robert Park and Ernest Burgess were writing papers on how sociology was an applied science, founders of sociology such as Jane Addams and W.E.B. Dubois were tackling issues of public policy and discrimination. .
             I would like to take a minute and acknowledge a few of the founding or groundbreaking sociologists, which surprisingly enough (to some), they are mainly women.