Teacher's Note: The Verdict

Note:
The final marks for continuous assessment only will consider the final entry of the blog.
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MOTION:
Coercive strategy as to facilitate social change [opposition]


ANALYSES:

• Understanding = 27 / 50
• Firmness of Stand = 12 / 20
• Example (s) use = 5 / 10
• Conclusion = 10 / 20

VERDICT:
Motion REJECTED

~~~OPPOSITION: Coercive strategy as to facilitate social change~~~

Persuasion and Education is the best strategy to facilitate social change rather than coercive strategy

• Coercive is not the way to facilitate social change. Change cannot be facilitated through coercive but change can be facilitated through persuasion and education. Moreover, social change cannot be performed by using coercive strategy because nowadays it is not suitable anymore for our society. They will change if they want. If the Change Agents use coercive power to make their followers change, the duration of social change will be short as compared to persuasion and education strategy.

• Moreover, the Change Targets Groups will not fully changed and the changes will not stay long if the Change Agents use the coercive strategy. Thus, the best strategy to facilitate social change is by using the persuasion and education strategy.

• By using the persuasion strategy, the Change Target Groups will slowly change willingly as they really want to change, as the effort made by the Change Agents. In the persuasion strategy, the Change Agents will try to persuade the Change Target Groups by using the soft skills based on their experiences and knowledge. It will take time but the result of change is outstanding.

• By using education strategy, if we want to facilitate social change we must have good education level. When we have strong knowledge and skills, we can easily make the Change Target Group to believe and follow what we said. It is important to educate them rather than to force them. Nowadays, Change Target Group would rather to choose to be educated and persuaded rather than be forced.

• Hence, we can conclude that the coercive is not the strategy to facilitate social change. The best way to facilitate social change is by using persuasion strategy and education strategy.
  
  

MACROECONOMIC INSTABILITY

Refer to a situation in which key economic relationships are not in balance. Examples include when domestic demand is higher than output or the government spends more than it earns in revenue. This leads to high inflation, growing trade and budget deficits and a rapidly expanding money supply. Macroeconomic instability is the result of ineffective government policies and changes in the international economy and has a devastating effect on economic development. For example, a loose fiscal policy can increase demand for goods and services, increasing the pressure on domestic prices and on the country’s external balance of payments.
In addition, to low growth rates, macroeconomic instability places a heavy burden on the poor. For example, inflation is a regressive and arbitrary tax which disproportionately affects poor people. This is because the poor tend to hold most of their financial assets in cash and because they are less able than the wealthy to protect their incomes and assets from inflation.

Teacher's Note

For example, poor people who live in rural area are having a problem of lack of infrastructure that lead to under development. In term of transmission and communication of knowledge and information, they received insufficient amount of knowledge and information as compared to people in town area. In terms of water and sanitation, there are certain rural areas that still have not received the clean water and using water from river and well. As well as they have no proper system of drainage. elements in social development.

How would you prepare the entire infrastructure without having firm grips on your economy? Does sanitation system come free without any dimes and nickels to spend?

Sorry – still don’t see the relationship you tried to explain


Status: Re-do and submit by or before 5pm today

Economic Obstacles

Lack of well functioning infrastructures

· Includes physical structures, or network necessary for economic activities.

· Because of majority of poor in developing countries live in rural areas, the lake of infrastructure is a key contributor to the perpetuation of poverty and economic under development. For example, water and sanitation, energy for cooking, heat and light, employment generating commercial activities and the transmission and communication of knowledge and information.

· For example, poor people who live in rural area are having a problem of lack of infrastructure that lead to under development. In term of transmission and communication of knowledge and information, they received insufficient amount of knowledge and information as compared to people in town area. In terms of water and sanitation, there are certain rural areas that still have not received the clean water and using water from river and well. As well as they have no proper system of drainage.

Teacher's Note - ANNOUNCEMENT

Salam.

Because of BTN, I've to reschedule your Test 1. I've decided the test will be held as follows:

• AMD6PA - Tuesday (Feb. 17th, 2009), KARAH 10/3, 10.15am - 12.05pm

• AMD6PB - Thursday (Feb. 19th, 2009), 12B1, 12.15pm - 2.05pm

• AMD6PC + AMD6PD - Monday (Feb. 16th, 2009), 8C, 4.20pm - 6.10pm

Thus, for this coming Monday, AMD6PA and AMD6PB can have more time to study because your test will be held as scheduled.

Only AMD6PC and AMD6PD will take the test on that day.

Those from AMD6PC and AMD6PD who has problem taking test on the mentioned day, please notify me by or before Sunday (Feb. 15th, 2009 - 10am) so I can prepare the things accordingly.

The test will covers all chapters i.e. chapter 1 - 4, and don't forget Vago's chapter 6 and 9.

Good luck everybody and have a nice day!

Love you all ... as always!

Wassalam

Karl Marx VS Ralf Dahrendorf Conflict Theories

KARL MARX

1. Concerned on community

2. Concerned with conflict among group that had different relationship to the means of production.

* social institutions such as family and government are dependent on the mode of operation in a given community.

3. All group in society are divided into those who have means of production and who have not.

For example: proletariat bourgeoist
(workers,those who have not) (property owner, those who have)

* The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political and spiritual processes in life.

4. Conflict continuously happen to win material wealth.

* Both group use the sources of production such as resources, technology and labor in order to produce good and services to gain wealth.

RALF DAHRENDORF

1. Concerned on society

2. Concerned with conflict among social class in term of unequal distribution of authority.

3. All group in society are divided into those who have authority and who do not.

For example: authority group subordinate group
(interested to preserve status for quo) (interested to change)

* those in the authority group who have power will stay in power and have potential in dominated the interest group.

4. Conflict continuously happen to gain legitimacy.

* Subordinate groups will struggle with privileged group in order to change and set the authority.
* Conflict leads to structural change as a result of a change in dominance relations.