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Inequality,
Age, Race and Sex
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Wealth,
Power, and Prestige differ
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Module
Introduction (Hub)
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Documents
Included in the Inequality
Module
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We
idealize equality yet it is likely impossible
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have placed a high value on social equality. |
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It
is so high that our ideal view of our culture is different from our real
culture; we believe there is more equality than there is. |
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difference between our real and ideal culture is illustrated by our habit
of calling persons by their familiar, personal or nick names, rather than
formal name and title. |
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Instructors
who invite students to call them by their first names are engaging in a
form of hypocrisy, hiding the reality that instructors have higher power
than students. |
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Of course whoever
points out the emperor has no clothes will not win any popularity competitions;
we like our myths and fictions. Similarly we think racism is bad,
and therefore find it hard to recognize that racism is practised widely
in our society.
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we talk about inequality we see three elements, power, wealth and prestige. |
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These
belong respectively to the dimensions of economic, political and aesthetic
values. |
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| Marx
say class as determined by relations of production. |
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He
saw that those who worked for a living versus those who owned the factories
in which they worked, formed the most important two classes. |
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Weber, then Durkheim,
contradicted Marx, and pointed out that the three elements, wealth, power,
prestige had several factors as well as production.
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sociological concern with inequality began in the industrial revolution,
and our concepts of class and stratification arise from that. |
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Inequality,
however, has been around since the agricultural revolution, and we can
recognize differences based on the three biological characteristics of
physical appearance, age and sex. |
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module therefore adds lecture notes about race, age and gender. |
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Unlike
the community training modules, this one does not have different documents
for different purposes and readers. |
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All here are aimed
at the beginner in the study of sociology.
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