SOCIOL 2RR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Inequality
23 Nov 2017
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[inequality] has the potential to undermine shared commonalities, mutual trust and social cohesion . (fleras, 8) Inequality is not necessarily a social aberration at odds with egalitarian. Inequality is normal" in that it is pervasive and common: inequality is socially constructed (fleras 19) Re ect, reinforce, and advance the interests and realities of those who create, own, or control the conventions . Ideals about the desirable, normal, and acceptable are wired (structured) into the founding assumptions and foundational structures of a society"s constitutional order . Inequality is socially constructed, but it"s not constructed equally by di erent people in society. The fabric of our society is inequal, therefore these social inequalities are perpetuated in many actions - purposeful or not: inequality is problematic. Studying inequality, who we blame, who decides, how should it be analyzed etc are very much a ected by our own personal biases. How can we x it: inequality is multidimensional.
