“Part of God’s Plan for My Life”: How Conservative Protestant Students Make Sense of Social Forces and Social Inequality

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Stephanie T. Chan
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Conservative Protestant

A short assessment of social inequality through evolutionary lenses: Re-examining Marx and Weber (and Darwin as well)

Human Affairs ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-118
Author(s):  
Christian Mesia-Montenegro
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Universal Darwinism

Abstract This paper intends to provide a short assessment on how Marx and Weber approached social inequality. The assessment is conducted using evolutionary rationality. Even though Marx and Weber had seemingly contrasting approaches, I argue that in reality both are complementary and can be better understood using Darwinian evolutionary theory or “Universal Darwinism” as the locus in which the two rationalities described formation processes based on competition for the survival of social forces and the crafting of adaptive and advantageous strategies that allow for the synchronic and diachronic reproduction of social groups.

Depression and Children

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Herring
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Childhood Depression ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Social Responses ◽  
Strong Case ◽  
Legal Responses ◽  
The Law ◽  
Legal Responsibilities

This chapter examines the legal and social responses to childhood depression. It asks whether the law is blind to cases where the harm the child is suffering can be found in biological causes, wider social inequality, or negative social forces. After providing an overview of depression in children, the chapter reviews legal responses to suffering children. It then considers what role the law should have, if any, to address the issue of childhood depression by discussing the nature of childhood depression and child protection. It also describes the dangers that might arise if the law did decide to adopt a broader attitude towards child protection, so as to include childhood depression. The chapter suggests that, while there is a strong case in principle for there being legal responsibilities owed to all suffering children, regardless of the cause of that suffering, there are also considerable dangers in taking that approach.

scholarly journals Theses on the relationship between rights and social struggle

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-423
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Kivotidis
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Social Struggle ◽  
Social Mobilisation ◽  
Structural Roots ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between rights and social struggle. This topic is revisited in light of the phenomenon of rising inequality in the aftermath of the last capitalist crisis, which reignited the debate on the role of rights in processes of social mobilisation. In this context, this paper examines three very recent contributions to this debate, namely Samuel Moyn’s Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World, Radha D’Souza’s What’s Wrong with Rights, and Paul O’Connell’s work on a critique of the displacement thesis. In critically discussing these contributions it introduces and elaborates on six theses which describe the relationship between rights and social struggle. The argument focuses on the important role of rights in the struggle between different social forces, as well as their limitations in promoting a critique of the structural roots of social inequality. 

The Inequality Mirror: Using a Student Survey to Teach Social Stratification

2022 ◽  
pp. 0092055X2110711
Author(s):  
Jorge Sola ◽  
Celia Diaz-Catalán ◽  
Igor Sádaba ◽  
Eduardo Romanos ◽  
César Rendueles
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Population Data ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Perceptions Of Inequality ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Research And Education

Social inequality is a central theme in sociology study plans (both in research and education), but it is often one of the most difficult topics to teach. This article presents an innovative student-centered strategy for teaching social inequality that uses a survey to collect data on students’ socioeconomic characteristics and perceptions of inequality. To stimulate reflection and discussion on the social mechanisms that reproduce inequality, this information is subsequently presented to them in conjunction with a comparative analysis to general population data. The exercise seeks to make social inequality less abstract for students by involving them in the research process and by using data relative to their own lives and families. Ultimately, the strategy boosts students’ sociological imagination and their capacity for critical thinking by encouraging them to see the connections between individual biographies and broader social forces.

Social Inequality and Advocacy With Transgender Clients

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Carroll ◽  
Theodore R. Burnes
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality

Social inequality in the world: trends during 2000—2016

2018 ◽  
pp. 29-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. M. Grigoryev ◽  
V. A. Pavlyushina
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
The World

New forms of intra-European migration, labour market dynamics and social inequality in Europe

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Verwiebe ◽  
Laura Wiesböck ◽  
Roland Teitzer
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Market Dynamics ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
European Continent ◽  
The Past ◽  
European Migration

This article deals mainly with new forms of Intra-European migration, processes of integration and inequality, and the dynamics of emerging transnational labour markets in Europe. We discuss these issues against the background of fundamental changes which have been taking place on the European continent over the past two decades. Drawing on available comparative European data, we examine, in a first step, whether the changes in intra-European migration patterns have been accompanied by a differentiation of the causes of migration. In a second step, we discuss the extent to which new forms of transnational labour markets have been emerging within Europe and their effects on systems of social stratification.

Habermas, Cultural Hegemony, and the Educational Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Arabic Speaking

This study explores Habermas’s work in terms of the relevance of his theory of the public sphere to the politics and poetics of the Arab oral tradition and its pedagogical practices. In what ways and forms does Arab heritage inform a public sphere of resistance or dissent? How does Habermas’s notion of the public space help or hinder a better understanding of the Arab oral tradition within the sociopolitical and educational landscape of the Arabic-speaking world? This study also explores the pedagogical implications of teaching Arab orality within the context of the public sphere as a contested site that informs a mode of resistance against social inequality and sociopolitical exclusions.

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