Social inequality is a necessary evil of capitalist...

2. Social inequality is a necessary evil of capitalist society†. Please comment with the reference of the sociology perspectives being discussed in the lecture and textbook. Social inequality exists in every society, no matter it is capitalist society or communist society. Yet, referring from three of the sociology perspectives, it proves that social inequality is a necessary evil of capitalist society. Capitalism affects the whole situation of different countries on different aspects, examples are economic, gender, education. I totally agree with the point of social inequality is a necessary evil in capitalist countries. In this essay, I am going to focus on the social inequality in Hong Kong in the past decades, discuss why†¦show more content†¦Max Weber suggest that stratification can be investigated from three perspectives, class, status and power. Weberian’s class differs from Marxian’s. The latter one emphasizes production as class can have a clearer classification according to the relationship of production; while Weberian’s class theory focus more on the different dimensions of economics, it emphasizes the relat ionship of individual and market. Classes are classified by its market positions, and the market positions are mainly based on property owned and skills owned. Different types of classes base on different types of market, including capital market, labour market and commodity market. According to different considerations, Weber’s class can be arranged continuum from low to high, and what Weber has mentioned about class are propertied upper class, white collar workers, petty bourgeois and unskilled manual workers. In capitalist society, we always judge people’s social status by their comsumption and lifestyle, like apparel, places that they visited always, level of education, size of their house, etc. Social status means social reputation. It is not hard for us to find some advertisements and soap opera full of beautiful women, golf or private club house. These materials and things force and lead us to chase a higher social status. Status and class are both the main conc ept in social stratification, but the systems are relatively independent and different. Normally, intellectuals inShow MoreRelatedStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 PagesS4Carlisle Publishing Services Printer/Binder: Courier/Kendallville Cover Printer: Courier/Kendalville Text Font: 10.5/12 ITC New Baskerville Std Credits and acknowledgments borrowed from other sources and reproduced, with permission, in this textbook appear on the appropriate page within text. Copyright  © 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2005 by Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. This publication is protected by Copyright