Abstract The purpose of this paper is to describe social inequality and to show how it affects everyday lives. The goal is to prove that illegal acts are done for monetary profits by targeting certain classes. There are several factors that cause social inequalities. Some of the factors include economic status, educational achievements, race and ethnicity (CTU Online, 2007). Social inequality is where a set of people are treated better than other people based on stratification.
The pieces that will be mentioned touch on the fact that in society gender stereotypes are formed. They intermingle with one’s class and gender. The classes being discussed were upper, middle, and lower class. The two races being discussed so far were African American and whites. What about these two races connect with class?
Compare and contrast the concepts of Social Division of Labour and Gendered division of labour ‘Work’, can be understood in different ways by different people. To some it is a necessity to earn money to live, and to others, it can be a source of enjoyment, reaping benefits and rewards other than money. It can consist of paid or unpaid work and exists in different scenarios, such as private or public environments. The division of labour is a concept used to help understand how work is distributed and organised in a social context, highlighting public issues and private troubles (Banks et al, 2013). It is concerned with who does the work, and the way in which it is divided and shared.
Open systems are where people experience some changes in social position. Slavery is an extreme form of social inequality where one group of people s owned by other people. Three dimensions that Weber argues should be considered when examining social stratification are class, status, and power. Class is the degree of wealth that a person has. Status is a person’s social esteem or honor.
The macro-sociological perspective broadly examines society paying close attention to the dynamics of social structure. The social structure of a society is analyzed through the lens of different groups within society and the patterns among and between them. Therefore, this implies that our behaviour is shaped and guided by social structure. Social structure consists of many different elements but is impacted heavily by the effects of social institutions. These include things such as the family, education, the justice system, the mass media etc.
However in order to understand how class is influential to one’s appearance we must first recognize the origins of the separation of classes. One’s social status or class, hierarchy, or rank is essentially the deciding factor in where they lie according to society. The segregation of classes started due to an excess in the production of goods. The overproduction of these goods went on to establish a foundation for inequality in the economy. This consequently provoked an incessant struggle from those of an inferior class.
Race has been defined as the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. This has produced the view that Euro-Americans’ social, cultural, and economic advantaged position must be maintained at the expense of others as the normal life. The influential power of race, gender and class are explained and illustrated through the collection of essays. The dynamics of power are divided based on different social classifications. Concrete Responses The essays included present a compelling but biased study within the context of class, race and gender.
Social Class and Inequality Social inequality has been defined as a conflicting status within a society with regards to the individual, property rights, and access to education, medical care, and welfare programs. Much of society’s inequality can be attributed to the class status of a particular group, which has usually been largely determined by the group’s ethnicity or race (Macionis & Gerber, 2006). The conflict perspective is an attempt to understand the group conflict that occurs by the protection of one’s status at the expense of the other. One group will resort to various means to preserve a ideal social status through socioeconomic prestige, consolidation of power (political and financial), and control of resources. In Canada, even though its impact is frequently minimized, social inequality exists, but because the majority of citizens associate exclusively with members of their own class, they are often unaware of the significant role social inequality continues to play (Macionis & Gerber, 2006).
Define the concept of social-class identity; illustrate your answer with examples Social class is a division of a society based on social and economic status. So social class identity refers to a person’s subjective sense of identity and what they think they are in relation to others. However in comparison to what the government may define as someone’s class, what the person believes to be their social class is, is often different. One element of social class identity is associated with what you work as, where you work, and what you earn. For example, someone who does traditional manual labour, especially things such as factory work, building and mining would most likely be classified as someone who is in working class.
Question: What is the difference between ethnicity and race, and is class analysis still important for understanding social inequality globally? Provide examples about how gender, class and race inequalities reinforce each other and contradict each other. There are many factors which go into determining the path a person’s life can take; the most significant of those being the social class into which he or she is born. Every civilised society has a class society. Each of these societies has based its civilisation, its culture, its technology, on the oppression of the majority by a minority.