- "Social inequality occurs when resources in a given society are distributed unevenly, typically through norms of allocation, that engender specific patterns along lines of socially defined categories of persons." - "The differentiation preference of access to social goods in the society is brought about by power, religion, kinship, prestige, race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, and class."
: The unequal distribution of resources, opportunities, and power among individuals and groups in a society.
Social stratification: The division of society into different hierarchical categories based on wealth, income, social status, and power.
Race and ethnicity: The social construction of race and ethnicity, how it affects access to resources, opportunities, and life chances, and how racial and ethnic groups experience social inequality.
Gender and sexuality: The social construction of gender and sexuality, how it relates to power, privilege, and oppression, and how different genders and sexualities experience social inequality.
Class and poverty: The different dimensions of class, the causes and consequences of poverty, and how social inequality affects individuals and communities.
Globalization and development: How globalization affects social inequality, international development and inequality, and inequality between countries.
Education: Education as a source of social inequality, how access and quality of education affect individuals and communities, and how education can be used to reduce social inequality.
Health and healthcare: The social determinants of health, how social inequality affects access to healthcare, and how healthcare affects social inequality.
Crime and punishment: How social inequality affects crime rates, how criminal justice systems perpetuate social inequality, and how crime and justice policies can reduce social inequality.
Political power and democracy: The influence of political power on social inequality, how political democracy can reduce social inequality, and how political systems can perpetuate social inequality.
Environmental justice: How environmental degradation and pollution disproportionately affect marginalized communities, how environmental justice movements respond to social inequality, and how sustainable development can reduce social inequality.
Economic Inequality: This social inequality refers to the unequal distribution of wealth, income, and resources within a society.
Gender Inequality: This social inequality denotes the unequal treatment, access, and control that women and men experience due to their gender.
Race and Ethnicity Inequality: This social inequality refers to the unequal treatment and opportunities for individuals based on their race and ethnicity.
Education Inequality: This social inequality relates to unequal access to quality education, resulting in differences in educational achievement and opportunities.
Age Inequality: This social inequality concerns the treatment of individuals based on their age, leading to differential access to power, resources, and opportunities.
Health Inequality: This social inequality occurs when individuals experience differences in health and well-being based on factors such as race, gender, or socioeconomic status.
Geographic Inequality: This social inequality refers to disparities in access to resources, services, and opportunities based on a person's location.
Disability Inequality: This social inequality involves limitations, challenges, and barriers that individuals with physical or mental disabilities face in their daily lives.
Sexual Orientation Inequality: This social inequality pertains to discrimination and marginalization faced by individuals with non-heterosexual orientations.
Language Inequality: This social inequality concerns differential treatment and opportunities based on a person's proficiency in certain languages.
- "It poses and creates a gender gap between individuals that limits the accessibility that women have within society."
- "Power, religion, kinship, prestige, race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, and class."
- "Social inequality is linked to economic inequality, usually described on the basis of the unequal distribution of income or wealth."
- "The social rights include labor market, the source of income, health care, and freedom of speech, education, political representation, and participation."
- "Although merit matters to some degree in many societies, research shows that the distribution of resources in societies often follows hierarchical social categorizations of persons to a degree too significant to warrant calling these societies 'meritocratic'."
- "Young was concerned that the Tripartite System of education being practised in the United Kingdom at the time he wrote the essay considered merit to be 'intelligence-plus-effort' and that it would create an educated middle-class elite at the expense of the education of the working class, inevitably resulting in injustice and eventually revolution."
- "In many cases, social inequality is linked to racial and ethnic inequality, gender inequality, and other forms of social status."
- "The most common metric for comparing social inequality in different nations is the Gini coefficient, which measures the concentration of wealth and income in a nation from 0 (evenly distributed wealth and income) to 1 (one person has all wealth and income)."
- "Two nations may have identical Gini coefficients but dramatically different economic (output) and/or quality of life, so the Gini coefficient must be contextualized for meaningful comparisons to be made."