DD101 Introducing the Social Sciences
TMA 01 Assignment

Social science is the study of human society and of the relationship of individual members within the society. Within the social sciences, the society is broken down into different variations of inequalities such as class, age, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. Inequality is a disparity of not having the same lack of opportunities, status or treatment. In sociology and other social sciences, sociologist base their studies simply under the stratification system, which refers to the hierarchical arrangement of individuals into divisions of power and wealth within a society.
The study of stratification has long been studied in the history of sociology, teachings such as inequality, including economic inequality, racial/ethnic inequality, gender inequality, and other types of inequality determines the differences people are facing within the society. This inequality is known as the ‘spatio temporal’ – social inequality. It means having unequal opportunities and rewards for different social statuses within a group or society. There are two main ways to measure social inequality: inequality of conditions, and inequality of opportunities. Inequality of conditions refers to the unequal distribution of income, wealth and material goods. Inequality of opportunities refers to the unequal distribution of ‘‘life chances’’ across individuals such as level of education, health status, and treatment by the criminal justice system.
On City Roads there are many examples of inequalities. For example, there are different types of shops seen in the City Road, that is attracted and used for different clientele. Janet Symmons sells african products to her chosen customers. Because, she brings various products from Africa to sell in her shop, she contributes to making social lives in Africa as well as on City Road. The inequality in this particular example, is the race and or ethnicity, which makes her shop different from the...