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This 5 page report discusses the identification, definition, and measurement of social inequality in terms of differing philosophical constructs. Four theoretical perspectives are considered in the discussion -- Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim, as individual writer/philosopher/sociologists and then the larger perspective of feminism. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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one dealing with the social realities of people, it is also one that must, by extension, dwell on the most basic realities of the individuals of which society is constructed.
For the purposes of this report, four theoretical perspectives are considered in the discussion of social inequality. How the individual writer-philosophers Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim viewed social
inequalities are reflective of their time, cultural background, and personal philosophies associated with politics, economics, and social history and development. In comparison, applying a feminist perspective to social inequality serves
as a means through which it is possible to consider the collective consciousness of half of the human population and how it is shaped by those same factors of cultural
background, and personal philosophies associated with politics, economics, and social history and development. Each presents a unique perspective but each is grounded in the fundamental understanding that social inequality exists
in ways that deny individuals their full measure of potential and of being fully alive. Karl Marx It is always important to understand that Karl Marxs (1818-83) fundamental assertion,
in the most simple of terms, was that all events are determined by economic forces. Marx was always well-aware that it was not the working class but the middle class
that drove history along its ever-progressing path. Social historians and political scientists have researched all levels of society to find "class consciousness," but it was the entrepreneurial-merchant class that
actually carried out the historical task of liberation, modernization, and self-actualization. Marx also suggested that in one very real sense, the middle class was undeniably the protagonists of modern history
through the simple, indisputable fact of having developed a higher consciousness of what history had created, established, and codified. The basis of Marxs view of contemporary society lay in
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