SOCIAL INEQUALITYPRESENTATION BY : R.JAISHREE ENROLLMNENT # A3410513087PROGRAMME : B.Ed Section A

Before starting with the presentation about Social Inequality, lets first know what Social equality means ?

SOCIAL EQUALITY : Social equality is a state at which all people in a given society share the same status in a certain detail. It entails equal rights, opportunities, obligations as well as economic equity. Despite efforts to ensure social equality in many countries, it has remained a big challenge and no society has been able to achieve it.

social equality includes equal rights under the law, such services. Equal access to education, health care, and other social securities are also part of social equality. as security, voting rights, freedom of speech and assembly, property rights, and equal access to social goods and and services. It also includes equal access to education, health care, and other social securities.

Now, let us focus on Social InequalityWhat do you mean by Social Inequality ? Social Inequality refers to a lack of Social Equality, where individuals in a society do not have equal social status. It is an expression of lack of access to housing, health care, education, employment opportunities, politics and status. It is the exclusion of people from full and equal participation in what we perceive as being valuable, Important, personally worthwhile and socially desirable.

SOCIAL INEQUALITY Differential access to :-

WEALTHPOWERPRESTIGE CCONTROL OF WEALTH AND POWER IN THE HANDS OF FEW

In what areas does social Inequality exist ? Gender Race Age Ethnicity Religion KinshipI.e. anything that can be used to differentiate people

Stratified Societies

Societies divided into horizontal layers of equality and inequality.Marked inequalities in access to wealth, power, and prestigepassed on from generation to generation.Has a significant effect on individuals life chances. (Weber)Found almost exclusively within complex societies with large populations.

GENDER INEQUALITY

WHAT IS CLASS ? Class is essentially a theorotical Concept.Classes are strata of a particular kind.It is defined primarily in terms of roles and economic relationships.

STRATIFICATION OF CLASS

What sort of things does social class affect ? Lifestyles and interestsTastesLanguageSelf ImageValues Political OrientationAccess to resources like education, health care, Housing and consumer goodsAccess to Power, Health and prestige

WHAT IS CASTE ? A Stratification system where cultural or racial differences are used as the basis for defining status.Determined by birth.Caste is rigid system of occupationally specialized interdependent groups.Caste is fundamental social institution in India.

Four varnas are ranked indescending order of importance,prestige, and purity :-

Brahmin (priests) scholars,philosophers - rewarded with honor

Kshatriya (warriors), rulersadministrators and organizers -rewarded with power )

Vaishya (The People) merchants,farmers, traders, artisans,engineers - rewarded with wealth

Shudra. (servants) servants, hiredhands, unskilled laborers, factoryworkers, manual laborers -rewarded with freedom from responsibility.

Untouchables, also knownas Harijans or Dalits, falloutside of the caste system alltogether.

Changing Significance of Caste

Colonials emphasized importance of caste

Caste is still important but has diminished since Independence

Caste system was seen as an obstacle to progress.

The Constitution of India outlawed caste in 1950.

There is ambivalence to caste as it exists today especially amongmany academics, and professionals who are unclear and troubledby what it means for them as members of a society that is part ofthe modern world.

The obligation to one's occupation exists independently of onescaste among professionals i.e. to preserve the occupation in thetheir children it is no longer seen as necessary.

The emergence of a large number of caste-free occupations includinggovernment, business, factories, schools, colleges, services, has greatlyweakened the specific association between caste and occupation.

The social world created by education, occupation and income, theoffice, the firm, the law court and the laboratory has cut across social world of caste. For example the social world of the Brahman judge is different from the Brahman clerk or school teacher.

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