SOC102H1 Lecture : Lecture 1
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Social inequality is not only harmful for the individual people, but it will affect the society as a whole. Inequalities are about hierarchical (better-worse) differences between and two people or things. Sociologists ask themselves how these natural inequalities become social inequalities and with what results, interested in how people invent or construct inequalities. Gerhard lenski showed that status consistency has consequences for social action that we cannot predict from the so called dimensions of status alone. Society gives various rights of privileges to certain group of people. Looking at the natural inequalities between people which thus lead to social inequalities. People are not discriminated because of natural grounds but on social ground. It is totally against natural law that imbecile lead wise men. When we know that social unequal privilege has gone too far, we reject it. A blind person and a normal person doing the same test within the same time.
