SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Social Equality, Social Inequality, Scottish Enlightenment
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Carlos slim helu is the wealthiest man in the world with over billion. Have a lot of companies in mexico, so very influential there. Not a flashy character like gates and buffett. Mexico"s wealthiest 10% controls 40% of the money while poorest 10% controls. Stratification structured social inequality or, more specifically, systematic inequalities between groups of people that arise as intended or unintended consequences of social processes and relationships. Not only about how resources and outcomes are distributed among different. If the world was reduced to 100 people statistics groups, but also how those inequalities overlap, interact with, and reinforce each other. Saw humankind as naturally pure and good. Only through the process of building society and repressing this pure natural character does social problems develop. Social equality a condition whereby no differences in wealth, power, prestige, or status based on nonnatural conventions exist.
