U7 L3: Social Inequality

• occurs when resources in a given society are distributed unevenly, typically through norms of allocationz that engender specific patterns along lines of socially defined categories of persons


  social inequality
• basis of the unequal distribution of income or wealth; frequently studied

  economic inequality
• social and natural resources other than purely economic resources are also unevenly distributed in most societies and may contribute to social status
• this can also affect the distribution of rights and priveleges, access to public goods, and other social goods and services

  norms of allocation
• there are three different forms of social inequality


  1. gender inequality
  2. racial and ethnic inequality
  3. global inequality
• this refers to the sex and gender based prejudice and discrimination

  sexism
• this is a major contributing factor to social inequality


  sexism
• this is a form of social inequality: emphasis born out of the deepening division in the roles assigned to men and women in the economic, political, and educational spheres


  gender inequality
• they are the gender underrepresented in political activities and decisions

  women
• this is a form of social inequality which was a result of hierarchal social distinctions between racial and ethnic categories


  racial or ethnic inequality
• this form of social inequality was established based on characteristics such as skin color or place of origin or culture


  racial or ethnic inequality
• this form of social inequality is the unequal treatment between such categories, result of some categories being considered superior to others


  racial or ethnic inequality
• this form of social inequality is also known as international inequality


  global inequality
• this form of social inequality was developed because of world economies developing unevenly


  global inequality
• this form of social inequality is represented by a type of country differentiation that existed after world war two


  • global inequality

  1. first world countries
  2. developed countries
  3. industrialized countries
  4. developing and third world countries
• these representation of country differentiation is primarily measured by what


  gross domestic products
• the term that describes shared culture— practices, values, beliefs of a group, shared language, religion, tradition, etc.


  ethnicity
• refers to any group of people who are singled out from the others in the society in which they love for differential and unequal treatment because of their physical and cultural characteristics. they therefore, regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination 


  ethnic minority or minority group
• according to him, a minority group is distinguised by 5 characteristics


  charles wagley
• these are the five characteristics defined by charles wagley a minority group is distinguished by


  1. unequal treatment and less power
  2. distinguishing physical/cultural traits
  3. involuntary membership in the group
  4. awareness of subordination
  5. high rate of in group marriage