SOC 103 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Inequality, Gender Inequality, Economic Inequality

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 103
• Professor: Rebecca Lock

Document Summary

Economic inequality, racial inequality and gender inequality each intersect with capitalism. Give a present day or historical explanation of how capitalism is or has been involved in maintaining these kinds of social inequality. Provide one well developed criticism of analyzing social inequalities in terms of capitalism. Your answer should be at least 4 paragraphs long. 2 single-spaced hand written pages or 4 double spaced hand-written pages. Liberalism and the encouragement of free/open markets. Through divide-and-rule, state able to divide the public by race/ethnicity. Capital interests - short term profit and long term stability of system. Short-term - current racialized groups are underpaid to allow for greater profits. Propagating racial intolerance for the purpose of mitigating risk of public union and revolution against the state and overthrowing the current capitalist system. Gender inequality long predated capitalism, but the owning class has benefited from this existing inequality and so has had little motivation to eliminate it.