SOCIOL 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Robert Reich, Social Stratification, Social Inequality
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1: wright mills - external forces shape and constrain our lives a. b. Effects to change society should be informed by the vivid awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society. Durkheim - we need to feel a sense of collective belonging and a sense of collective responsibility i. Society has obligation to individual in the form of ensuring social justice. Education, equal opportunity, "legitimate inequality", no poverty in terms of people lacking resources ii. Develop their talents, everyone should work, specialized skills b. Marx and engels - equitable distribution of social resources would allow for development of the individual"s multiple talents and create harmonious living conditions. i. Individuals would have the freedom and resources and time to develop multiple creative facets as human outside the sphere of socially necessary labor in an ideal world. c. d. e. f. Social inequality and social divisions are socially constructed. Social inequality imposes real but unnecessary costs to human development.
