LESSON 4

SOCIAL
INEQUALITY

 1 Defining social
inequality
PRESENTATION

OVERVIEW
forms of social
2
inequality
WHAT IS SOCIAL
INEQUALITY?

social inequality occurs resources in a

given society are distributed unevenly,
typhically through norms of allocation,
that engender specific patterns along
lines of socially defined categories of a
person.
FORMS OF
SOCIAL
INEQUALITY
 1. GENDER INEQUALITY
SEX- and gender based prejudice and discrimination,
commonly called sexism,are major contributing factors to
social inequality. the emphasis on gender inequality is
born out of the deepening division in the roles assigned to
men and women, partivularly in the economic, political
and educational spheres. women are underrepresented in
political activities and decision making processes.
A. THE STRUGGLE FOR
EQUAL RIGHTS
the modern concept of women as people with a full
legal rights is a relatively new idea for many years.
like in the united states, in the 1940's, eleven states
did not permit women to maintain her own earnings
without her husbands approval. sisteen states ruled
that a married woman could not make contracts. in
seven states women were banned from serving on
juries. and many states controlled that kinds pf job
that women could hold.
B. THE WOMENS RIGHT
MOVEMENT
In 1848 a group of women led by Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, held a convention in sen eca falls, New York,
to have a discussion about women's right and this
marked the start of the women's suffrage (voting)
movement. While it is true that the fight is not easy
that suffragists had to rally, demonstrate and even
chain themselves to railings before they finally got
the vote in 1920.
2. RACIAL OR ETHNIC
INEQUALITY
Racial and ethnic inequality is the result of hierarchical
social distinctions between racial and ethnic categories
within a society and often established based on
characteristics such as skin color and other physical
characteristics or an individuals place or origin or
culture. unequal treatment and opportunities between
such categories is usually the result of some categories
being considered superior to others.
 A. DISCRIMINATION
minorities are being deprived of equal treatment and
are kept in a lower status by the dominant members of
society, and the resistance of equality is called
discrimination.

B. PREJUDICE
this is defined as a negative attitude towards the
members of a particular group. it is a pre-conceived
idea or judgment of others that allows us to brand/
levels them in various pessimistic ways.
 C. STREREOTYPING
it refers to our prosperity to picture all members of a
particular category as having the same qualities.

D. ETHNOCENTRISM
belief that our own nation, race or group is the best is
called ethnocentrism
 E. SCAPEGOATING
The term scapegoat is taken from the ancient Hebrew
custom of identifying the sins of the people with a goat
and driving the goat into the wilderness. this is a
situation when people encounter problems that they
do not know how to solve. often they feel frustrated.

F. RACISM
it is the thinking that one's own race is superior and has
the right to control or direct others.
3. GLOBAL INEQUALITY
Global inequality and international inequality refers to
economic differences between countries. the economies
of the world have developed unevenly historically, such
that entire geographical regions were left mired in
poverty and disease while others began to reduce poverty
and disease on wholesale basis. this was represented by a
type of country differentiation that existed after world
war 2 between first world countries, developed countries,
industrialized countries, developing countries and third
worls countries, primarily as measured by gross domestic
products (GDP)
 4. ECONOMIC
INEQUALITY
Economic inequality, usually described on the basis of the
unequal distribution of income or wealth, it is frequently
studies type of social inequality. though the disciplines of
economics and sociology generally use different
theoretical approaches to examine ad explain economic
inequality, both fields are actively involved in researching
the inequality. however, social and natural resources
other than purely economic resources are also unevenly
distributed in most societies and may contribute to social
status. norms of allocation can also affect the distribution
of rights and priviledges social power, access to public
goods such as education or the judicial system, adequate
housing, transportation, credit and financial services such
as banking and other social goods and services.
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