{"id":635,"date":"2011-02-17T15:04:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T20:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=635"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:30:29","slug":"equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2011\/02\/17\/equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by NASA Goddard Photo and Video on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24662369@N07\/5426032016\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5094\/5426032016_a85d0ed2e8_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Full Disk Image of Earth Captured Feb. 7, 2011\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLane Kenworthy&#8217;s article &#8220;Is Equality Feasible?&#8221; (<em>Contexts<\/em>, Summer 2007) is a great article to get students thinking about inequality in society. \u00a0Below are some questions that you can use with the article.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What is the Gini coefficient and how can it be used to influence social policy?<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Summarize the argument that inequality contributes to affluence in a given country. What is the equality\/jobs trade-off?<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The author talks about the non-pay benefits of employment. Can these benefits be accomplished in other ways? What are some possible consequences of not having access to these benefits (both for individuals and society)?<\/p>\n<p>4) \u00a0 \u00a0Beyond poverty, how does unemployment affect societies?<\/p>\n<p>5) Is equality feasible?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lane Kenworthy&#8217;s article &#8220;Is Equality Feasible?&#8221; (Contexts, Summer 2007) is a great article to get students thinking about inequality in society. \u00a0Below are some questions that you can use with the article. 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What is the Gini coefficient and how can it be used to influence social policy? 2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Summarize the argument that inequality contributes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[64,13,837,119,76],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-globalization","tag-inequality","tag-materials","tag-poverty","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}