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	Project on Inequality
		All four projects study trends in inequality in the aspects within their domain, and all seek to understand both the causes (particularly the education and wealth projects) and the consequences (primarily the health and children's investment projects) of these changes.
		The role of economic inequality in causing these disparities is not well understood, and there is a need for additional social science research to understand the sources of health and health care disparities.
		If economic and social origin variables have stable effects on educational transitions, then changes in the levels and inequalities of educational outcomes can be explained in part by the changing distributions of social origins.
	www.irp.wisc.edu /research/inequality/inequalproj.htm (2375 words)

	Structure of Social Inequality, Social Stratification and Social Class (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Social inequality is a fundamental aspect of virtually all social processes, and a person's position in the stratification system is the most consistent predictor of his or her behavior, attitudes, and life chances.
		Social stratification lies at the core of society and of the discipline of sociology.
		Class is extensively used in discussing social structure, sociologists also rely on the concept of status, which offers a more complex portrait in which individuals within a class can be seen as having quite differentiated social situations.
	www.sociologyindex.com /social_inequality.htm (252 words)

	Week 6: Social Inequality
		Social class is a ranking or grouping of individuals according to position in the economic scheme of things.
		Social arrangements develop that tie the worker to the land, thus the worker is only partially free to sell his labor and then only to his feudal lord.
		Social stratification is then seen as the inevitable outcome of the operation of power and the use of power to govern the distribution and access to the goods and services of the society.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /public/sociology/introsoc/topics/UnitNotes/week06.html (7952 words)

	NSD Newsletter 96 - Attitudes towards Social Inequality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) studies on attitudes towards social inequality may prove to be a useful instrument for analyzing examples of this phe-nomenon.
		When the range of legitimate inequality is considered, it is apparent that the population of every single country believes that income ought to be distributed more equally: the coefficient variation of expressing what different occupational groups ought to earn is always smaller than the coefficient variation expressing what people think the different groups earn.
		The ranking of the countries by the average values of perceived social inequality clearly differs from the ranking by the median values in the box plot.
	www.nsd.uib.no /english/nsd/newsletter/attitudes.shtml (2078 words)

	South Africa Seminar: Info Pages
		Social Inequality is what maintains its economy but also undermines its nationalism.
		Unsaid by many is the fact that the cause of the Social Inequality is the fact it has maintained the White population in South Africa.
		In order to reconcile this Social Inequality, it is imperative that the culture of doing without begins to heed to the culture of success.
	www.stanford.edu /~jbaugh/saw/Michael_Social_Inequality.html (994 words)

	Facts about social inequality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Although there appears a consensus of what constitutes social inequality, there is far less agreement over the causes of it.
		Governments have historically played an important role in reducing social inequality, by redistributing the wealth generated in the economy.
		Longintudinal health studies have shown that the hierarchy inherent to societal inequality is a major cause of health problems such as atherosclerosis, and that these effects have been found in species of apes as well as humans.
	www.supercrawler.com /Facts/social_inequality.html (271 words)

	CSI : Undergraduate Concentration
		The Inequality Concentration is appropriate for students interested in government service, policy work, and related jobs in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) as well as students who wish to pursue graduate education in such fields as public policy, economics, government, law, history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, literature, and philosophy.
		In the modern period, inequalities generated in the market and through other social institutions are typically regarded as excessive, and the state is seen as the main tool for redistribution, discrimination abatement, equalization of life chances, and related forms of amelioration.
		The ethics of inequality track examines the conditions under which inequalities might be deemed legitimate or illegitimate, evaluates prevailing inequalities and social policy as against this yardstick, and explores the larger role of values in popular and scholarly judgments about inequality.
	inequality.cornell.edu /academics (1050 words)

	CED 815 - Social Inequality
		Social inequality is at the core of community economic development policy and practice.
		This course is designed to lead doctoral and advanced MA students through an examination of how social scientists, policy makers, and practitioners conceptualize and address (or fail to address) social inequality.
		As a wide-ranging examination of diverse perspectives on social inequality and of its diverse empirical manifestations (race, gender, ethnicity, among others), this course will lead each student to produce a comprehensive literature review on a topic directly pertinent to his or her dissertation or thesis interests.
	www.snhu.edu /1877_33303136.htm (142 words)

	Social Inequality - Department of Sociology, UC Irvine
		The study of social inequality has been a central focus of the Sociology Department at UCI since its inception.
		UCI sociologists study social inequality by race/ethnicity, gender, and class — as well as the intersections of these dimensions — by employing a wide variety of methods, from ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews to multilevel statistical models and social network methods.
		As a result, the work of those in the social inequality cluster frequently compliments — and is complimented by — research by other UCI sociology faculty.
	www.socsci.uci.edu /sociology/html/clusters/SI.html (496 words)

	Social Inequality essays
		Social inequality reflects the belief that deviance is not merely deviant personal behavior, but also, behavior that is committed against other individuals of society.
		Social inequality involves the belief that some individuals are socially defined as disadvantaged due to their life circumstances.
		Social inequality can be applied to a number of life circumstances, such as poverty, race, gender, health, and many other phenomena.
	www.directessays.com /viewpaper/89698.html (297 words)

	CSI : Center for the Study of Inequality
		The Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) fosters basic and applied research on social and economic inequalities, as well as the processes by which such inequalities change and persist.
		This course is a primary requirement for completion of the Inequality Concentration, and will serve as the replacement course for SOC 222 for the academic year 2006-2007.
		Inequality, Diversity, and Justice (PHIL 193, CRP 293, GOVT 293, and SOC 293)
	inequality.cornell.edu (428 words)

	The Self-Perpetuation of Social Inequality in America - Associated Content
		Social inequality in America is something that has been addressed in the past and continues to be addressed currently.
		In this paper, I will argue that while social inequality continues to be addressed in America and it is indeed changing, it will continue to exist and negatively affect our society via the ascribed status of selected individuals.
		For the groups that hold social power, the surest guarantee for maintaining that power and withholding it from selected groups is to discriminate on the basis of ascribed status.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/16712/the_selfperpetuation_of_social_inequality.html (451 words)

	Social Inequality, Independent Study Online Courses, The University of Iowa
		Her major area of study is stratification and her minor area is social psychology.
		The first is to identify and examine critically the "classical" and current theories of inequality that anyone coming out of a social inequality course would be expected to know.
		The area of social inequality as a field of study is concerned precisely with these questions.
	www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu /ccp/gis/courses/034066_p.htm (2316 words)

	Inequality at the Starting Gate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Several social scientists have written about how schools structure inequality, so that social differences in achievement actually increase as a result of children's participation in differentiated educational experiences as they move through school.
		These indicators are markers of how investments of material, social and cultural resources made during the past decade have been translated into skills and competencies in the present generation: they denote the success of families, schools, and communities in producing a literate society.
		Moreover, socially linked language development observed in very young children was found to be quite stable throughout elementary school (i.e., schooling did not ameliorate these socially based language differences developed in infancy).
	www.epinet.org /content.cfm/books_starting_gate (2738 words)

	Social dimensions of economic development and productivity: inequality and social performance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Latin America, inequality is the social dimension of utmost concern.
		Income and social inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean is the highest in the world, and the performance of the social sector is inadequate.
		The relation between economic growth on the one hand and income inequality and poverty on the other is borne out by ECLAC analysis from household surveys in a number of countries in the region.
	www.eclac.cl /cgi-bin/getProd.asp?xml=/publicaciones/xml/7/4897/P4897.xml&xsl=/ddpe/tpl-i/p9f.xsl&base=/tpl/top-bottom.xslt (495 words)

	Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
		When you plot the amount of activity for each user, the result is a Zipf curve, which shows as a straight line in a log-log diagram.
		More importantly, such inequities would give you a biased understanding of the community, because many differences almost certainly exist between people who post a lot and those who post a little.
		The first step to dealing with participation inequality is to recognize that it will always be with us.
	www.useit.com /alertbox/participation_inequality.html (1477 words)

	Social Inequality, Prejudice & Discrimination
		Social inequality is the expression of lack of access to housing, health care, eduction, employment opportunities, and status.
		Class is the main organising principle of modern capitalist societies, the mechanism by which power, privilege and inequality are distributed and institutionalised.
		Others depend on social security for survival and are, in effect, excluded from the mainstream economy, with the result that they are excluded from life chances and life choices.
	hsc.csu.edu.au /pta/scansw/socineq.html (2315 words)

	Róbinson Rojas.- About economic inequality.-Environment.-Energy.- Dependency Theory, US Imperialism, capitalist, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Notwithstanding the improvements in some indicators of global inequality in the last two decades due to the impressive expansion of China and India, indicators of inequalities in recent years are all much higher than they appeared a hundred or two hundred years ago.
		We prove that the median voter is decisive and show that inequality is harmful for the environment: the poorer the median voter relative to the average individual, the less she will tax and devote resources to the environment, preferring to support growth.
		Social exclusion is a phenomenon of both the past and the present, and if nothing is done, it will also be one of the future.
	www.rrojasdatabank.org /ecinequality.htm (6069 words)

	Russell Sage Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Many of the results of this research have been summarized in a volume of research reviews, Social Inequality, published by the Foundation in 2004.
		Having completed this first broad phase of the social inequality project, the Foundation now plans to turn more specifically to research on the recent performance of the principal institution that our society depends upon to counteract the effects of market-driven inequality: the democratic political system.
		The movement to extend public education to kindergarten sharply decreased inequality in pre-primary enrollment between five year olds from rich and poor families beginning in the 1970s.
	www.russellsage.org /programs/main/inequality/program_rfp_view (1698 words)

	The Impact of Inequality
		Increasing social inequality in Britain is at the root of rising levels of anti-social behaviour, teenage pregnancy, violence and obesity, according to a University of Nottingham academic.
		More than two decades of widening social and economic differences are leaving their mark on Britain, making it one of the most socially unequal of European countries.
		Because of the psychological damage inflicted by being seen as inferior, the scale of inequality is a key determinant of national standards of performance in areas as different as levels of violence, educational performance of school children, health, and the quality of community life.
	www.innovations-report.com /html/reports/social_sciences/report-45730.html (625 words)

	Social Watch : News
		The Report states that social spending in Paraguay amounts to U$S 140 per person per year, while the average for Latin America is U$S 696. Investment in education here is U$S 66 per capita and in Latin America, U$S 169.
		“The research shows that the sources of violence are simply poverty, inequality, social exclusion, organised crime, corruption, bad governance and gender-related violence, among other things,” said Garcé, who added that in this context, poor countries need to prioritise the concept of “human security” over and above those of territorial or State security.
		Paraguay allocates only U$S 140 per person in social spending, while the average for Latin America is U$S 696 per person, according to a report by the international organisation Social Watch, represented in this country by Decidamos.
	www.socialwatch.org /en/noticias/noticia_64.htm (468 words)

	An Overview of Social Inequality
		These are the criteria by which the social worthiness of individuals are judged and discriminations made, such as the classifications of gender, ethnicity, race, religion, age and generation.
		For a number of social scientists, its shrinkage in recent decades in the United States is a cause for concern.
		Television viewing, for instance, which decreases with social class, supposedly leads individuals to view themselves as being relatively powerless and apolitical, oblivious of the real forces shaping their lives (filled, instead, with extensive trivia and factoids), escapist, and consumers of whatever capitalism has to peddle.
	www.trinity.edu /~mkearl/strat.html (3654 words)

	Social Inequality Cartoons
		Social Inequality cartoon 1 - catalog reference hsc1627
		Social Inequality cartoon 2 - catalog reference hsc1423
		Social Inequality cartoon 3 - catalog reference hsc1271
	www.cartoonstock.com /directory/s/social_inequality.asp (414 words)

	A SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR AND INSTITIONAL PSYCHOLOGIES
		Besides being large-scale social phenomena, sociologists' interest in their genesis and development stem from the fact that they are major engines of social change.
		Being major agents of social change, perhaps the most-studied forms of collective behavior are social movements, such as the American civil rights, anti-war, feminist, and environmental crusades of recent decades.
		Individuals' positions in the stratification orders of sex, race, and social class determine the language the speak, their values, happiness, self-esteem, sense of personal efficacy, physical and mental health, rate of aging and life-expectancy, sexual activities, childrearing practices, and nature of their work.
	www.trinity.edu /~mkearl/socpsy-8.html (3506 words)

	SN 4821 -Social Inequality III, 1999
		The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is a continuing annual programme of cross-national collaboration on surveys covering topics important for social science research.
		Special topics have included the environment, the role of government, social inequality, social support, family and gender issues, work orientation, the impact of religious background, behaviour, and beliefs on social and political preferences, and national identity.
		Respondents were asked for their perceptions of the extent of present inequality, explanations for inequality, and the role of government to reduce inequality.
	www.data-archive.ac.uk /findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=4821 (535 words)

	Program on Social Inequality. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		How can social policies reduce social inequality?=20 These and related questions are the focus of the Departments=20 Program on Social Inequality.
		This training includes course work in areas such as social stratification,=20 the sociology of the family, the sociology of education, sociology=20 of immigration, social structure and personality, social policy, and=20 research design and methods.
		Students may obtain a certificate of concentration in social inequality by completing=20 (with a grade of "B-" or higher) the Seminar in Social Inequality.
	www.trend-one.com /new-1478348-4513.html (389 words)

	Cabinet Magazine Online - The Emergence of Social Inequality among Robots
		The experiment does not imply that inequalities are inevitable or that those who were lucky, like R1, have a kind of birthright to their position.
		However it warns us that inequalities may develop even if the rules are completely fair and initial conditions unbiased.
		These questions have occupied social scientists for centuries and we are now finding new tools in A.I. for their examination.
	www.cabinetmagazine.org /issues/5/socialinequality.php (2002 words)

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