"Social inequality occurs when ideology and power combine in such a way as to make one group superior or inferior to another group." This definition comes 4rm my dad's old Sociology textbook, that was just laying around the house. So, yeah...racial discrimination can be considered as a social inequality b'coz prior to the past, the days of the Apartheid Era. The Whites were superior, which made the Blacks to be inferior in many aspects. Other examples of social inequality, includes "sexism". For many years, women didn't have the right to own property or vote. They were essentially consindered to be possessions of their husbands or fathers and were therefore inferior to the superior males within the society. Even the difference in economic classes, is considered as social inequality. Those with significant wealth have considerably more power than those without wealth. Along with that, there's a commonly held ideology that supports the idea that wealthy (or even middle class) people are superior 2 those who live in poverty.
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