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El Virus de la Desigualdad: Cómo recomponer un mundo devastado por el coronavirus
La pandemia de coronavirus tiene el potencial de agravar la desigualdad en prácticamente todos los países del mundo al mismo tiempo, una situación sin precedentes desde que existen registros. El virus ha puesto al descubierto y ha exacerbado las desigualdades … Continue reading
Anthropologists and inequality
Inequality in human societies has always existed. When it becomes extreme (that point varies by society and historical circumstances) the society either collapses completely (e.g., revolution, war, failure of basic services, famine) or undergoes changes in its basic framework. Ancient … Continue reading
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The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Level, based on thirty years of research, takes this truth a step further. One common factor … Continue reading
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Income and life expectancy inequality
People in the bottom of the income distribution live shorter lives than those in the top. This is an important dimension of inequality in society. We demonstrate how forces of income mobility are important for conclusions about inequality in life … Continue reading
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Gender inequalities in the workplace: the effects of organizational structures, processes, practices, and decision makers’ sexism
Gender inequality in organizations is a complex phenomenon that can be seen in organizational structures, processes, and practices. For women, some of the most harmful gender inequalities are enacted within human resources (HRs) practices. This is because HR practices (i.e., … Continue reading
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The Emergence of Groups and Inequality
The emergence of groups and of inequality is often traced to pre-existing differences, exclusionary practices, or resource accumulation processes, but can the emergence of groups and their differential success simply be a feature of the behaviors of a priori equally-capable … Continue reading
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Social inequality – children gap
Cognitively, experience is sequential: Experiences in infancy establish habits of seeking, noticing, and incorporating new and more complex experiences, as well as schemas for categorizing and thinking about experiences. Neurologically, infancy is a critical period because cortical development is influenced … Continue reading
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Diverse Aging and Health Inequality by Race and Ethnicity
Although gerontologists have long embraced the concept of heterogeneity in theories and models of aging, recent research reveals the importance of racial and ethnic diversity on life course processes leading to health inequality. This article examines research on health inequality … Continue reading
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Social Science is not fighting Inequality
Sociology is at risk of losing what credibility it has because we have latched onto ways of studying inequality that are not suited to new economic arrangements. What are those ways? They started as truths that now represent half-truths or … Continue reading
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UNESCO – Challenging Inequalities: Pathways to a Just World
Never before has inequality been so high on the agenda of policy-makers worldwide, or such a hot topic for social science research. More journal articles are being published on the topic of inequality and social justice today than ever before. … Continue reading
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