Title: Inequality – The Underlying Universal Issue in Social Problems
Abstract: An underlying factor in most social problems is social inequality. Inequality has many dimensions and is present in most societal arrangements and relationships (interpersonal, inter-institutional or personal-institutional). In the perspective advanced in this book, we consider inequality to be the fundamental and universal issue pervading most societal arrangements and pursuits, as well as the corresponding factor in the emergence and continuity of social problems. This chapter illustrates this assertion by analysing societal arrangements and processes through which the pursuit of dominant, desirable goals takes place. Examples used are from the areas of income distribution, education, the labour market, and allocation of resources on a spatial scale in the cities. (As a further illustration of these arrangements and processes, social problems in two institutionalised areas – the family and the social order – are examined in greater depth in Chapters 8 and 9.)
Publication Year: 1998
Publication Date: 1998-07-13
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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