SOCI 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter Beck: International Inequality, Social Equality, Social Inequality
19 Dec 2018
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Hurricane katrina swept away the houses of the poor in new orleans. First, it will be able to rely neither on the old institutions nor on the seemingly eternal distinctions us and the rest, national and international, nature and society. Finally, i shall take up the question: what does a cosmopolitan renewal of the social sciences mean and how will it be possible: social equality becomes a worldwide expectation. Social inequalities become a problem, a cause of conflict, not because the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, but when, and only when, acknowledged norms and expectations of equality human rights spread. Anyone who wishes to understand the political effect of social inequalities must look at the history of social equality. Distinction between the reality of social inequality and the political problem of social inequality. Historically, social inequalities become a political scandal relatively late and then at first in the form of a characteristic contradiction.
