The Sociologically Examined Life: Pieces of the ConversationThis lively and concise supplemental text uses analyses of everyday conversations and experiences to inspire students to think sociologically about society and about themselves as social actors. |
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... inequality on the back of a poorer woman . The result may be a little more equality in housework within the couple , but inequality in society as a whole is reinforced . This is doubly true if the couple is white and the maid is not ...
... inequality on the back of a poorer woman . The result may be a little more equality in housework within the couple , but inequality in society as a whole is reinforced . This is doubly true if the couple is white and the maid is not ...
Page 78
... inequality ourselves and are thus eaten up with suffering of our own . Inequality can affect emotional responsiveness in other ways . Members of powerful groups may be unresponsive to the powerless because power fosters a lack of regard ...
... inequality ourselves and are thus eaten up with suffering of our own . Inequality can affect emotional responsiveness in other ways . Members of powerful groups may be unresponsive to the powerless because power fosters a lack of regard ...
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... inequality means that some people have advantages over others - more specifically , they have better chances to live ... inequalities are social , not personal . They are social because they result from how society is organized and where ...
... inequality means that some people have advantages over others - more specifically , they have better chances to live ... inequalities are social , not personal . They are social because they result from how society is organized and where ...
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