Inequality in the United States
Inequality Theory in relation to Crime and Race
Inequality Theory is included in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (1), beginning with: Social inequality is the giving of privileges and obligations to one group of people while denying them to another. Inequality theory is a system in which groups of people are divided into layers according to their relative power, prestige, and property. It is a way of ranking large groups of people into a hierarchy according to their relative privileges. Social inequality affects individuals’ life chances, the way they see the world, and even the way they think. Every country in the world has inequality; some societies have greater inequality than others, but inequality theory states that inequality is universal. In addition, every country uses gender as a basis for its inequality. On the basis of gender, people are either allowed or denied the good things offered by their society.
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Notes and References
- Entry about Inequality Theory in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime
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