{"id":51486,"date":"2012-10-06T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=51486"},"modified":"2013-02-11T03:25:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T08:25:29","slug":"why-is-there-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/10\/06\/why-is-there-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is there Inequality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51489\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/1.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/1.jpg 558w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/1-500x99.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a>W.W. Norton has released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QOYTFNz8Bgw&amp;feature=share&amp;list=PL117543344E3BE8DB\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-0\" target=\"_blank\">fun little animation<\/a> answering this thorny question. It has to do with abundance and hoarding, and the technological innovations that underlie these things, as well as government&#8217;s willingness to redistribute wealth.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QOYTFNz8Bgw?list=PL117543344E3BE8DB&amp;hl=en_US\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>See more of Norton&#8217;s videos at their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/NortonSOC\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W.W. Norton has released a fun little animation answering this thorny question. It has to do with abundance and hoarding, and the technological innovations that underlie these things, as well as government&#8217;s willingness to redistribute wealth. Enjoy: See more of Norton&#8217;s videos at their YouTube channel. Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,253,304,290,3504],"class_list":["post-51486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-history","tag-the-state","tag-sciencetechnology","tag-social-structure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51486"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51488,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51486\/revisions\/51488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}