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.
Discussions about the wealth gap and crime often begin with a misleading question: “Are poor people more likely to be criminals?” That framing mixes together very different issues—poverty, inequality, neighborhood conditions, opportunities for different kinds of crime, policing patterns, and the way crime is measured. A better analysis asks how economic resources shape opportunity, exposure, […]
Advertising does more than sell products. In a few seconds, an ad may communicate assumptions about who cooks, who earns money, who takes care of children, who should be attractive, who is powerful, and what masculinity or femininity is supposed to look like. Because advertising repeats simple messages frequently, gender representation is one of the […]
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 […]
The relationship between wealth and crime is more complicated than the familiar claim that “poverty causes crime.” People with low incomes are not inherently more likely to commit crimes, wealthy people are not immune from criminal behavior, and differences in arrest or incarceration rates do not necessarily tell us how much crime each social class […]
Age stratification is 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 age is also social: a person’s rights, responsibilities, status, income, work opportunities, family roles, and treatment by institutions can change depending on […]
