SOCIOL 2R03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Economic Mobility, Social Inequality, Health Equity
7 Sep 2013
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Patterns of inequality pertaining to power, privilege or property are the rule rather than the exception. People should be rewarded differently because of their importance to a free market society with a complex division of labour. Inequalities are known to reflect patterns of social stratification that partition society into unequal layers based on criteria such as class, race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, or disability. ), and debate over what society is for with respect to what kind of inequality is tolerable and how much of it. Social inequalities are socially constructed conventions created and enforced by those in positions of privilege or power, they are deeply embedded in the principles, institutional design, and operations of society. All human societies are unequal and stratified to some extent on the basis of: material resources distribution, biological traits that are imbued with cultural meanings, and groupings of persons based on shared characteristics.
