SOSA 1100X Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Conditionality, Economic Inequality, Social Inequality

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 1100X
• Professor: Dubois Lindsay

Document Summary

What is social inequality: some kinds of people have more advantage, opportunities, and power. Do some kinds of societies have greater inequalities: more advanced societies. What kinds of inequalities are there: education in our society compared to others. Richest 300 people have the same wealth as 3,000,000. How does the concept of social inequality help us understand the problems raised in the readings: bourgois, poverty at the office . Gender inequality men at a disadvantage (women bosses telling them what to do) Class and race inequality: knauft, the gebusi. Gender inequality women"s sexuality monitored, domestic violence, women not allowed to perform s ances. Global women and the new: patten, malawi vs. the world bank . Inequality and poverty don"t happen randomly they are socially organized by : gender, class, race/ethnicity, citizenship. Capitalism organized around relationships between: machinery, tools and other means of production, social class. Workers who don"t (the proletariat or working class)