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How does hierarchy get built into the systems of natural and social inequalities?

  • UPSC 2008
  • Stratification and Mobility

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, 1755) separated natural inequalities of age, strength and capacity from social inequalities of wealth, honour and power. Hierarchy is the ranking of such differences on a scale that society accepts as legitimate. André Béteille (The Idea of Natural Inequality and Other Essays, 1983) makes the key point:…

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  • From natural difference to hierarchy
  • Making social inequality a lasting hierarchy
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