SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gini Coefficient, Blue-Collar Worker, Arab Spring
13 May 2016
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For the best people to fill the most important jobs rewards should be granted. Black man got beaten by white police officer. Dysfunctional - many people died, many injured. Ferguson and baltimore: treatment of black people as second class citizens. Prolonged periods of very high social/economic inequality can lead to violence, and even revolutions. Outcomes may be beneficial in the long run if wealth and power differences lead to change. Richard wilkinson epidemiologist the spirit level: why equality is better for everyone ted talk. Higher gnp (average wealth) is not associated with improved quality of life. Inequality is divisive and corrosive, stressful and harmful. Better health care for more people in more equal societies. Less need for harsh social control to deal with inequality. Max weber; a person"s position in social hierarchies of class, status and power greatly affect their life chances (ex. Titanic disaster social class differences affects your life chances.
