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What is the difference between natural and social inequality? Give examples from caste and class dimensions.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Stratification and Mobility

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, 1755) separated natural or physical inequality, meaning differences of age, health, strength and mental capacity, from moral or political inequality, meaning differences of wealth, honour and power that rest on social convention. Sociology adds a sharper point: what is presented as natural is usually social inequality that…

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  • Caste
  • Class
  • How the two meet
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