Saturday, October 6, 2012

*Inequality is the result of abundance?




The sociological claim here is that inequality arises out of abundance. An axis of analysis from looking at economics with sociological implications. The concept of 'stratification' is used to pronounce this framework but I think the claim is a simplification of economic systems, policies, and the function of institutions while at the same ignoring the internal processes of morality in cognitions of kinship, loyalty, in-group/out-group dynamics that occur in persons. This isn't to say that the development of resources and the habits of hoarding or storing is not part of the equation for inequality but that it only describes one side of the story of why inequality exists. When we begin thinking about anthropological and psychological dimensions of inequality we shift the discussion of equality outside of the domains of material distribution onto social structures and psychological factors that impact the shape and range of what we label equality and then inequality.

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