Equality And Inequality In Society

Inequality between races in the U.S. seems like a distant, long forgotten thing of the past. However, the gaps between the varied races in the U.S. are just as real as they were before. Asians are perceived as smart hard-workers with cruel parents, hispanics are identified as lazy illegal immigrants, whites are portrayed as dumb party-goers, and blacks are discerned as scary and evil thugs. The ways these races are viewed is extremely harmful to the way they are treated by society. These people tend to be treated badly starting at a young age, making the stereotypes they are accosted with harder to overcome. Stereotypes are taken to schools and jobs, causing imbalances almost everywhere, but the most damaging stereotypes are given to blacks, as they are treated like criminals

In America there are still several parts of our society that remain racially unequal including, the workforce, the wealth gap between minorities and whites, as well as incarceration rates and police behavior. The unemployment rates in America are relatively high and because of how hard it is to get a job, the employers prefer to hire someone that they feel more comfortable with, which typically aren’t minorities. The wealth gap between minorities and whites is continuing to grow as the years move on and because the wealth gap many people are starting to turn to criminalism. Because of the amount of people turning to criminalism, the incarceration rates of minorities is steadily increasing. Racial inequality in one section of our society can affect all of the other sections as well. It is a “snowball effect” of sorts. One small aspect of racial inequality can lead to another and another and so on and so forth until our whole society is unequal. Racial inequality has a negative impact on our society

Our society is in a downhill spiral. There is no liberty, no equality and there is no physical value of money. We live in a world in which prison companies and children’s hospitals are traded publicly on the stock market. Virtual currency is the only thing that these corporations strongly care about. There are no boundaries when profits are in concern. We live in a society that is dominated by the attraction of money. Greed is the characteristic that is pervasive, not generosity or compassion. People are encouraged to be selfish, not charitable. The idea and function of governments will only change if people’s minds alter first.

Solving inequality in the United States is not an easy task, while it can be done it could take decades before it is completely diminished. Some ways that we can take a step in the direction of reducing inequality towards people of color are more strict anti-discrimination laws and equal imprisonment laws, nonviolent protests, and lower education cost. While this might not completely put an end to it, or even reduce the problem, there is still a possibility that it might

Is there really a perfect world? Is there a perfect place where anyone can be themselves and not be discriminated against for it? Well if there is, it is not here in America. The United States is no utopia, it still has barriers to overcome in the matter of equality. The Unites States is not a post-racial country even though most Americans would like to believe so. Equal opportunity is just one myth america has to offer. The people in America are not viewed in the same way as one another, everyone is seen as different. People are often seen differently because they may look a different way.

It is often said that in our society we have such a thing as equality, but is it actually there?, or has it become a myth. Discrimination happens everyday, anywhere at anytime. It comes from the lowest class to the highest class. People that judge you based on your looks, race, even the way you talk, dress or walk. They are everywhere and people are not treated equally

Escape from the bitter realities of life, escape from individuality, escape from pain and religious commitments can bring the real happiness, solidarity and stability to a modern society, is the major theme of the Novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. He artistically and satirically drives home the significance of a futuristic world with the motto of prevailing equality and stability among the community. All differences like that of caste system, religion, race, color, intelligence will be uprooted from the introduced future of Brave New World. According to Huxley, all these differences cause inequality which, in turn, hinder human progress, by dividing the people into various strata. The only solution of the problem is to nip the evil in

Franz Boas said, “If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.” Your parents’ prosperity and fortune do not determine the level of opulence that you are able to achieve in your life, neither does the color of your skin. The meaning of equality is that two or more things are the same or identical. Even if they have one or two characteristics that are equal they will not have equivalent qualities. People think that if you have an unfair advantage then they should be blessed with the same advantage, but an advantage isn’t really an advantage. When one person is born into a wealthy white family and one is born into a poor black family they both have the same

“Passing' occurs when a person classified as a member of one ethnic group is also accepted as a member of a different ethnic group." At the "Passing" Race Panel Discussion, Morrissa, Glory, Robert, and Aaron all got to share their experiences with “passing”.

Social Justice and Equity: It can be referred as Fairness for all. I am a strong advocate for equal treatment for all. Diversity in all ramification should be the watch-word of every enterprise as it brings out the best in every individual as they fill inclusive. Suggestions and opinions should be viewed from its content rather from the person that made them. This is one of my strengths. I still exceed expectations and have acquired more social justice skill during the duration of this course.

The inequality we see today in our society is due to different things but if we take a moment and think about from where does this inequality comes from and in many cases the answer is it is within our political social and economic system. This inequality becomes normal and a norm at some point because of how long we have seen it repeatedly. In history one of the major contributors to structural inequality is race. Race is an important factor in society since the beginning of the times, since colonization. Colonizers brought the idea of one race being better or superior than others. This did not stop in only being a way of thinking or an opinion this idea was brought to push certain people down and benefit others in very legal way. We have seen throughout history racial domination in the United States and how structural racism is embedded in the institutions of contemporary society. Structural racism is still very present the same as fifty years ago and more for the simple fact that it does not disappear. We have managed to make it evolve with us and we have change the standards of what we consider legal or illegal who is part of this dominant group and who is excluded. Some scholars that had study this phenomenon in the US are Loic Wacquant (2002) “From Slavery to Mass Incarceration”, Michael Omi and Howard Winant (1986) “Racial Formation in the United States” and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (1996) “Rethinking Racism: Toward a Structural Interpretation”.

When addressing the syllabus and reflecting on the course description, there is an interest on how the course will analyze the social inequality that takes place in the United States. It’s a subject that many people are aware of, but like myself there are also many people that have not taken time to think about the different types of inequality that exist all over the United States. In previous courses the focus was on the inequality between genders in a family setting, this course will positively further my knowledge of inequality in a larger spectrum. After reading the syllabus it was understood that a large part of the course is focused in class discussions, which I worry about. Shyness is my weakness, and specially when having a class

Many people have different views on equality based off of their daily struggle. Whether the struggle involves, race, religion, sexuality, or gender, we all have one goal to be treated as equals. Equality is defined in the webster dictionary as the state of being equal but this never truly happens in our world in fact we may never be all treated as equals but we’ve made great strides to come close to it.

Inequality is the state of describing the non-similarities or beneficiaries two parties do not share as a whole. Apathy is the lack of feeling or of an interest in a commodity, idea, or principle. So apathy may be a source of inequality if the non-beneficial party's plea, in sharing of the same amount of benefits, become a lack of interest to the benefiting party. Yes! the social and political lack of interest towards the less fortunate may persist but the effort to eliminate inequality would lead to its decline. Inequality wastes human capital and human potentials and it needs to be eliminated regardless. As a politician the best way to address inequality is to monitor and commit to realistic but courageous targets to reduce it. And, also

In briefly evaluating the classical and modern explanations of social inequality, it is essential that we step outside the realm of our own lives, class position, and discard any assumptions we might have about the nature of inequality. This process of critical pedagogy allows us to view our world, not from our perspective, but from a wider, more critical analysis of inequality's nature. Also, it should be considered within this wider perspective that all theories of inequality have a class perspective, where the theorist, based on the position their theory takes, is making claims from (or for) a particular class (whether they want to or not). With this in mind, it seems that most of these theories come