SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Shakers, David Suzuki, Distributive Justice
Document Summary
Life is had and its a gamble its hard to control. Its impossible to find out who wins things in life and who looses. Its a course about winners/losers and who they and y they are winner or losers. Ppl who start rich normally end that way. Life is a gamble, game of poker, played with a stacked deck. Life is not a matter of chance or luck. Sociology is dedicated to explains how social game works and the reasons ppl face heavy odds. Social inequality means crime, sickness, addiction, violence and sometimes even war for society as a whole. Inequality is about hierarchical)better-worse) differences between two ppl or things. The dictionary defines inequality as the quality of being unequal or even. Currently the ways things r organized benefit other ppl and don"t benefit others. The function of sociologists and sociology benefits the society as a whole.
