Social inequality

• Social inequality is the existence of uneven opportunities and rewards for diverse social positions or statuses within a group or society.
• Any employer favoring a male employee over a female in terms of promotion, training opportunities, and other benefits solely on account or sex is considered discrimination.
• Gender and sexual orientation are subjects to social inequality.
• Ethnic minorities are also subjects to social discrimination, the cultural marginalization that they experience from the dominant majority.
• Persons with disabilities are deprived of opportunities in society, especially in the employment sector, due to their physical impairments.
• Dominant members are members of society that have more power than others.
• Minorities are barred from privileges and opportunities, they are usually denied by the equal treatment of the majority or dominant.
• Discrimination and prejudice happen when minorities are being deprived of equal treatment and are kept in lower status.
• Prejudice, most of the time, connotes to negativity.
• Prejudice is defined as the negative attitude towards the members of a group.
• Stereotyping is a form of prejudice.
• Ethnocentrism is the tendency to picture all members of a category as having the same qualities.
• Slavery is the condition in which one human being was owned by another.
• Scapegoating is when people encounter problems they do not know how to solve.
• Ethnocentrism is the belief that our nation, race, or group is the best or superior to others.
• Racism is the belief that one race is superior and has the right to control or direct others.
• Slavery is considered by law as property or chattel.