SOCL 2001 Chapter : Chapter 7
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People talk about the removal of manufacturing: stratification as social control/social sorting. Not viewing it as an individual based thing, but a cultural thing. Jean-jacques rousseau: 18th century, private property creates social inequality, which leads to social conflict, this is the end of the middle ages, feudalistic times, ex. If you give one child ice cream and the other nothing. The ability to create assets provides an incentive to work hard and be productive, which in turn leads to higher degrees of social organization and efficiency and ultimately to an improved society and civilization. The irony, however, is that this ability to create and store surpluses is what creates inequality. Inequality is a mechanism of society: mass starvation, and conflict. Standards of equality: ontological equality is the notion that everyone is created equal in the eyes of god, prosperity theology- people are doing well, so they should get less.
