Essays on Social Inequality

It is obvious that in the conditions of market relations economic factors have a greater influence on human life and its social environment. All people tend to be involved in terms of economic worries, always buy something, consume, produce, sell, and exchange production activities. Economic relations in a civilized society is always ruled by regulations. Among them, natural rights derived by man from his birth are the most important. For example: the right for freedom of employment and occupation, the right for personal liberty the rights granted to the individual by society: the right to own property, the right ...

Introduction

The idea of social inequality involves the existence of rather a biased or unjust level of opportunities as well as rewards in the cases of different positions and statuses within any social class. In most cases, such an inequality gets associated with varied dimensions of significance, including economic, wealth as well as the level of education among other critical aspects like power, schooling race alongside ethnicity as well as origin. Social inequality has major adverse effects on the wellbeing of others as it not only dehumanizes but also makes one feel out of place. In as far as Australia ...

Poverty and Gender

The article “Gender is just one of many inequalities that generate poverty and exclusion” by Claire Melamed represents the author’s vision of the global gender inequality problems and its impact on poverty occurrence around the world. When discussing the evidence of dividing and uniting people around the world, the author emphasizes the inequality issues consideration within the millennium development goals (MDG) maintaining. The global political, economy and social leaders’ plans aimed at finding solutions regarding poverty, shortage and social inequality overcoming. However, despite the post-2015 debates, gender inequality and its direct impact on poverty are apart from the ...

Problem Statement

There are a number of reasons, defined by the ethical as well as the economic and the political scenes, for the non-diminishing interest in addressing the gap between the rich and the poor. "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is an aphorism, which outlines the major views on economic inequality and the criticism, seen in academic and business literature, towards the philosophy of free market and capitalism in general. One of the principal works, laying the foundation for the discussion, is the work by Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014), who places the idea ...

INTRODUCTION

Many countries rely on agricultural crops for the food security of their citizens and the stability of their economy. Cultivating crops allowed humans to meet their increasing demands for crops and continue to prosper. Without agricultural products, civilizations would have been different or would have failed to exist. People would have relied on gathering crops and end up exhausting every available resource there is. Nevertheless, as societies and their demands for agricultural crops advance, more strain are put into the environment. People have cultivated crops continuously and some have done it without much regards to the environment. There have ...

1. Capitalists and workers.

An age-long conflict.

Revolution as the only means of fighting social inequality. Result of revolution. According to Karl Marx, social inequality results from the fact that human society is comprised of two basic social classes – capitalists and workers. Capitalists own the means of production that are used to produce wealth, namely plants, factories, equipment etc. Capitalists use workers to enrich themselves by exploiting their work. In other words, they pay them just enough to have an accommodation, food and other necessary things for survival, while the majority of profits goes to capitalists. Marx traced the history of cohabitation ...

Irving Kristol makes a solid argument for why the political institutions of America are successful. However, there are some large gaps within the logic that can be argued. It is true that many feel strongly about the American way of life, and that this may be in our bones. But, this does not prove the effectiveness of political institutions. Instead, it proves the effectiveness of our culture’s ability to socialize those within. The socialization through culture is a specific area of study for Anthropologists, arguably proving this to be a true aspect of society, especially in America. Thus, ...

Assess The View That The Main Function Of The Education System Is To Reproduce And Legitimise Social Inequality

Marxist theories of education rely upon the notion that the education system systematically reproduces the social and cultural values that lead to the privileging of one social class over another. For Marxists, social inequality is the core of capitalism. As Anyon (2011, p. 7) suggests, capitalism is “an economic system based on private ownership of the means of production.” Moreover, capitalism cannot function unless these social inequalities exist. According to Marxism, the education system perpetuates these inequalities by creating a set of standards which do not have a neutral ideological formation. Regardless of geographic location and emphasis on cultural, ...

The Role of Advertising in Perpetuating Gender Inequalities

The social structures have always been producing social inequalities. In modern society, this trend still exists. Despite the fact that stereotyped thinking is the basis of human thinking, they (stereotypes) should be constantly revised, as they are constantly losing their relevance. However, most people use stereotypes and think accordingly without taking into account that some things are no longer relevant. Such thinking, in fact, leads to a perception of social inequality as a normal thing. Most of the social inequality is noticed in gender issues. Given that the government and the country`s culture usually dictates many of the ...

The novel Rain of Gold is a book that has widely reflected on two major vices that have taken root in the society: social inequality and discrimination. Social inequality is the biased treatment of various individuals based on life circumstances, mostly those they have no control over, such as race and gender. Discrimination is treating people or a group of individuals differently from other people or groups, mostly unfairly and basing it on stereotypes. The novel Rain of Gold sought to promote social inequality and discrimination through the restrains faced by two families coming from one culture and into ...

Introduction

Towards the end of the twentieth century and in the first decade of the twenty first century, the world has undergone a drastic change. This has been, in a large measure due to the tremendous advances in transportation technology and internet communication technology. Goods and services from any corner of the world are accessible to anyone in any other part of the world. The rich and the middle class all over the world have access to latest in fashion, food and electronics. However, in every country, a considerable fraction of the population live in abject poverty and the modern ...

 To date, in the fourteen Latin American countries, those in power are leftist politics (the issue what kind of leftism and the degree of radicalism it is about) will be discussed later. Regardless of all the uniqueness of the moment and the apparent dissimilarity of modern Latin American lefts with their predecessors, there is a clear tendency, which is characteristic for the Latin American model of development as a whole – a tradition of powerful leftist movements, the struggle for social transformation. Facing deep structural crisis, the continent came into a long strip of the struggle against the dictatorship, local ...

Although there are many contributing factors to social inequality in modern society, there is one problem that stands out above the rest. In terms of socio-economic class, gender, and race, the unfair treatment of different peoples is clearly engrained in our social systems. Because there are so many different circumstances responsible for the separation of different groups, it is often hard to pinpoint exactly what is to blame for this division, and this is because structural inequality is something that is not easily visible to the naked eye. In a society where bias viewpoints are upheld without the knowledge ...

Sociological Observation

Observation and Data: For the purposes of the experiment, two homeless men were observed near the same vicinity. I was able to observe their comings, goings, and interactions with other individuals at the same time. Their socioeconomic status put them at a decided disadvantage compared to other individuals passing by both on foot and by vehicle. However, to understand if there were other social inequalities or privileges at work, one man was Caucasian, and the other was African American. The goal was to observe if one was treated differently than the other, or helped more than the other. They ...

Introduction

Gender disparity is a common element in any society coupled with controversy and extensive debate due to the biological differences between men and women (Ridgeway, 2011, p.62). Are men and women equal despite these obvious differences? This is the major question posed by society in relation to gender equality. However, the dimensions of gender inequality offer valuable information in understanding this issue and identifying areas that require urgent attention. Social inequality is apparent in almost every society. Throughout many decades, women have been struggling to be equal to men. The purpose of this paper is to explore the inequalities ...

Social stratification is the differentiation of some given set of people (population) into classes in a hierarchical rank. Its foundation and essence is the uneven distribution of rights and privileges, responsibilities and duties, the presence or absence of social values, power and influence among the members of a particular community. (Barber, 1957) Any sociological approaches provide a thorough study of social stratification from different perspectives, focusing on certain criteria, which are a source of social inequality. Functional approach examines the social division of labor, as the initial emergence of social inequality. For example, functionalists K. Davis and W. Moore ...