Personality And Society: Maynooth co kildare Ireland

PERSONALITY AND SOCIETY: MAYNOOTH CO KILDARE IRELAND
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Personality And Society: Maynooth co kildare Ireland
Maynooth is located on north Co. Kildare 24 km from Dublin and is connected by mainline railway, Arrow commuter rail service, provincial and Dublin bus services and the town serves range of functions including as a university town, service and retail center for the North Kildare and more so increasingly becoming a residential centre within the greater Dublin area (Cahill &Elkin, 2007).
By 1996 the town had a population of 8525 persons with an annual percentage of 7 percent. According to the annual development plan of Maynooth published in the year 2002 it indicates that one of the principal characteristic of the population structure of Maynooth is that its consistently rapid in growth with significant representation by the young as compared to the national average and this is mainly attribute to the fact that the town is a university town as wells the emergence as the commuter town for Dublin. The town experience high rate of immigrations calling for residential services in the town.
Social exclusion: the high population densities resulting from large population that is characterized with high social diversities implies that people interaction is very high and that some groups in the society get ignored as everyone is busy trying to satisfy personal needs as opposed as to satisfying the needs of the general society at large. The individualistic lifestyles result to social exclusion which serve to increasing the disparities in terms of materialistic well being e.g. in wealth as well as emotional and psychological well being. For instance the increased cases of street children who grow in multiply deprived conditions resulting to existence of a population devoid of normal personalities. In addition to that the poor population get detached from the rest of the society as their financial difficulties excludes them from the rest of the society thus affecting all their way of living and eventually their position in the society at large and these affects the way they bring up their children thus the increasing social disparities (Hopfenberg, & Pimentel, 2001).
Poverty: high population densities coupled with large populations means that job opportunities become limited resulting to reduced sources of income generation hence lower living standards as a result of the increased levels of poverty in the town. People get exposed to lower living standards as many face financial crises leading to unhealthy living standards leading to increased cases of malnutrition and hence high cases of disease and mortalities especially in children and the aged population. Generally, a high level of poverty in the society leads t...