SOC263H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gini Coefficient, Maximal Function, Distributive Justice

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Inequality is dysfunctional (aristotle: cause of instability and low social integration)" people trying to keep the inequality to keep the power they have, social integration-assimilate into groups in society. Meritocracy: inequality is based on individual merit and usually functional, made the effort to gain abilities and applied them for the good of society. Distributive justice, society should not interfere in distribution of power/prestige just economic resources, once level the playing the fired in regards to economic resources people will undergo social mobility. Brock, raby and thomas: center-normative social order, in canadian society- multicultural, democratic, capitalist, consumerism. Knezevic: exclusion is different to operationalize, defined in a way in which it can be used in research-binary or complex, value influenced. Gini coefficient (index): 0 a perfectly equal frequency distribution; 1 maximal inequality, all income is the same it is 0, out of everyone one person makes all the income gini is 1, in the middle because everyone has different incomes.

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