Inequality can emerge through class, income, age, gender, work, institutions, and social expectations. This tag connects articles that examine disparities, representation, poverty, unemployment, gender roles, and the social structures that shape opportunity and experience.
The anti-globalization movement is often described as a movement “against globalization,” but that label hides more than it explains. Many of the activists, unions, environmental groups, development organizations, farmers’ movements, and civil-society networks associated with it did not oppose all international trade, migration, technology, or cross-border cooperation. Their central argument was that globalization should not […]
Age stratification describes the way societies organize people into age-related categories and attach different roles, expectations, opportunities, and levels of power to those categories. Age matters biologically because bodies change over time, but it is also a social classification that influences schooling, employment, family responsibilities, voting rights, pensions, healthcare, and ideas about independence. Chronological age […]
