Teaching Social Inequality

Download or read book Teaching Social Inequality written by Garth Massey and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing chasm between rich and poor, within societies and between nations, has enormous implications not only for people’s well-being and life chances but for the prospects for democracy throughout the world. From the interpersonal to the societal level, social inequality is the central feature of social life. Helping students appreciate and understand this is the most important task of social science instruction.