W12-2: Social inequality

1.     Summary
Social inequality occurs when limited existing social resources are not evenly distributed. Most of the time, differences in power, religion, ethnicity, age, gender, etc. are factors causing discrimination. The equality of opportunity as well as the equality of results is also the concept of social inequality. Social inequality appears in almost every society. Especially today, as our society is more complex than ever, social inequality tends to vary and the gap between the poor and the rich tends to increase. Social inequality is classified into three categories: egalitarian society, Franked society, and Stratified society. And there are five types of social inequality. There are two kinds of positions in society: wealth quality, treatment and reliability quality, political quality, life quality, and membership quality. There are two kinds of positions in society. The ascribed characteristics are innate characteristics and the achieved characteristics are characteristics that individuals can obtain or choose from.


2.     Interesting item
The content of the pattern of inequality was interesting. It was particularly impressive about age inequality. Age inequality occurs when age is treated unfairly for promotion, recruitment or various privileges. Adultism is a prime example of age discrimination. It is discrimination against minors, such as a policy that prohibits them from entering certain buildings after a certain time. Age inequality first came to mind the discrimination experienced by older people, but I found that there were also discrimination experienced by minors.


3.     Question to discuss
What factors cause social inequality in our country and to whom does the result harm?

Comments

  1. Choi YewonJune 6, 2020 at 11:49 PM

    I think the gender is the core factors of social inequality. Many women are died and be victims because of the men's violence.

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