Durable Inequality (Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture)

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Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exploring representative paired and unequal categories, such as male/female, black/white, and citizen/noncitizen, Tilly argues that the basic causes of these and similar inequalities greatly resemble one some other. In contrast to up to date analyses that provide an explanation for inequality case by case, this account is one in every of process. Categorical distinctions arise, Tilly says, because they offer a solution to pressing organizational problems. Regardless of the “organization” is—as small as a household or as large as a central authority—the resulting relationship of inequality persists because parties on both sides of the categorical divide come to rely on that solution, in spite of its drawbacks. Tilly illustrates the social mechanisms that create and handle paired and unequal categories with a wealthy variety of cases, mapping out fertile territories for future relational study of durable inequality.
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