Anthropology › Section I · Social inequalities › Topic I.2
Systems of inequality
Race, class and gender sort people into unequal positions in every modern society, yet none of them is simply natural. This topic traces how each system was built, how it is kept going in everyday life, and how anthropologists measure and explain its effects.
In this topic
- Systems, not just attitudes
- Race: a social construction with real effects
- Where racial categories came from
- Caste, Whiteness and privilege in the United States
- Racism beyond the obvious
- Worked example: the racial wealth gap
- Class: Marx and Weber
- Bourdieu's forms of capital
- Worked example: naming the capital
- Racial capitalism and gender
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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