Anthropology › Section I · Social inequalities › Topic I.1
Theories of inequity and inequality
Why do some people have more wealth, respect and power than others, and is that ever fair? Anthropology's answers have changed dramatically, from nineteenth-century theories that justified hierarchy to modern frameworks that trace how power, history and everyday habits produce it.
In this topic
- Equal, ranked and stratified societies
- Inequality, inequity and oppression
- Levels of inequality
- Worked example: inequality or inequity?
- Theories that justified hierarchy
- Functionalism and conflict theory
- Hegemony and the state apparatus
- Biopolitics and necropolitics
- Agency within structures
- Worked example: one village, three lenses
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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