Running head: SOCIAL INEQUALITY & RACE Social Inequality and Race Markus Nehlsen ETH/125 Megan Burke April 21‚ 2012 Identified Group To choose an ethnic or racial group which I belong to can be easy for those who see my physical appearance but it can be difficult for me to decide. The racial group I have always claimed and identified with is White non-Hispanic or Caucasian. To determine my particular ethnic group is unclear because I was adopted; however‚ I was raised by a German
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political‚ and economic issues within the last three centuries‚ inequality remains one of the most important‚ historical‚ and omnipresent aspects of the region’s culture. As Europeans took over Latin America during the time of colonization‚ they implemented many elitist social structures that have held strong and are evident today (Harris). Income inequality is the most visible and greatest disparity that the region faces; yet inequality between gender‚ ethnicities‚ and education remain strong and
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The rich get richer and the poor get poorer‚ but why? Many subcategories of inequality lead to the bigger heading of social inequality. Social inequality is the inability of people to have equal opportunity (Fonza and Owen). Social inequality and urban poverty are such rampant problems today due to systematic racism‚ pay inequality‚ and gentrification. Through discriminatory federal processes such as redlining‚ minorities still struggle to regain lost footing from decades previous. A large portion
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A major social problem in America today is its inequality of the distribution of income. "Income inequality refers to the gap between the rich and the poor. The United States has the most unequal income distribution in the industrialized world‚ and it is growing at a faster rate than any other industrialized country" (Eitzen & Leedham‚ pg. 37). The main reason as to why income is distributed so unequally is because of the gap between social classes. Each social class has a certain power‚ and
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“Wealth inequality can be described as the unequal distribution of assets within a population. The United States exhibits wider disparities of wealth between rich and poor than any other major developed nation‚” (www.inequality.org) There are two factors that I believe contribute to the wealth gap are income and race inequalities. As the gaps widen within those two factors‚ the wealth gap in the United States continues to grow exponentially. Is there a difference between being rich and being wealthy
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A Response on Social Inequality We live in a culturally diverse world. Age‚ gender‚ sexual orientation‚ ethnic heritage and race are some of the diverse areas in society that are deemed significant. In spite of all these differences we tend to center ourselves around people who are similar to us; those who share the same biological and physical characteristics‚ same status and similar lifestyles. Because of this it is our human nature to be ethnocentric towards those who are different from us
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Gender Inequality in Sporting A growing issue in Sporting history and an issue that is still around today is about the gender inequality between the competitors and judges/referees. To this day there is a growing gap in the amount that a Male Athlete is paid to what a Female Athlete is paid. An example of this is‚ the top paid male athlete is Cristiano Ronaldo and he is paid $93million per year and this is compared to Serena Williams‚ who is the top paid female athlete in the world and only
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Income Inequality It is very prevalent in our society that inequality comes in all different forms. One could see inequality everyday in gender‚ races‚ and even income. Income inequality has been steadily rising for many years and people have become frustrated with this upward trend. In David Leonhardt’s article “Inequality Has Been Going on Forever … but That Doesn’t Mean It’s Inevitable‚” the author criticizes this upward trend and describes the different levels of income inequality that
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In Paul Krugman’s Confronting Inequality‚ we are warned‚ as citizens of the United States‚ of the damages of high and rising inequality within our country. The inequity being described is between the wealthy 1% of our nation and the 99% of the rest of the population. The author depicts America as a place where there is unclear economic progress for the middle class while the share of economic growth in the past 3 decades has gone to the wealthy minority. Krugman‚ next describes the damages to our
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Carlos Diaz Peter Hart-Brinson SOC 101.501 November 25‚ 2014 Analysis of Inequality Inequalities surround our lives like the crows over a carcass. They make up our identity no less than the color of our eyes‚ contour of our mouth‚ or freckles on the face. In the same way‚ we may be equipped with inequalities that may both advantage or disadvantage us. I choose to continue this analysis on the basis of what has offered me the most experience to present; my socioeconomic advantage. Coming from a family
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