Answer Five Questions About Global Social Problems

1 .According to the textbook Global Problems, Global Solutions, Chapter 6: From Difference to Discrimination: Fault Lines of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion. What similarities have you found in the histories of racism and discrimination in China, India, and Japan?

2. How do Marx, Weber and Durkheim approaches to religion differ? Why did Weber argue that Protestantism gave basis to capitalism? 

3. Why have religion and ethnicity so often been rallying points for conflict? What is needed to promote understanding between racial, ethnic, and religious groups? Provide an example to support your answer.

After reading “There is no justice in history” (Available on Canvas on Module weeks 9 and 10) by Yuval Harari, answer the following questions. 

4. How do societies create and maintain hierarchies? What does Harari describe as pollution?

5. Yuval Harari in the article: “There is no justice in history” states that all forms of hierarchy are based on fictions? Why do we accept these fictions as something real? Give an example to support your answer.