Any form of social inequality arises based on the fact that any given society is organized by various hierarchies based on race, gender, economic class, and other social factors; and such factors determine people’s ability to access rights and resources in ways that tend to make these rights and resources unequally distributed (Mackenbach, 2017). Social inequality can fall in many forms, which include wealth and income inequality; differential treatment of different classes of people by the law enforcement and the existing judicial system; unequal access to the existing education opportunities and the society’s cultural resources; unequal political representation; and the inequality based on a certain group of people’s membership in a given society. These are basically the five different types of inequalities that could …show more content…
These include inequality based on access to the available opportunities and inequality based on conditions accorded to different classes and positions within the society. Inequality on the basis of the existing opportunities in the society can be explained by the society’s existing unequal distribution of chances that can enable an individual to succeed in the society. Important measures that can illustrate a society’s inequality of opportunities include the ways different people within the society are treated by the criminal justice system, health status of different social classes in the society, and the level of education attained in different classes in the