Social Inequality Reaction Paper. Yingtian Wang. . The

Social Inequality Reaction Paper Yingtian Wang The United States is certainly a culturally diverse society, as we live in this world. Age, gender, race, wealth, education and social connection are some of the diverse parts in society that creates stratification. What is social inequality? The short definition is that resources in a society are unevenly distributed according to different â€Å"categories† of people. For example, the wealth distribution in the United States shows that the top 10% people have 70% of the wealth of the country. The bottom 20% people only has about 3% of wealth. How does society structure with different classes effects social inequality? One of the way is to label society as three different classes†¦show more content†¦People work hard to own their properties, earn highly incomes, have wonderful careers, and to have long and healthy lives. These things can be defined as power indicators. However, Domhoff has excellent points on how power and wealth are more concentrated in society. Although I found it is very hard for me to understand the connection between the power elite and government. The conclusion of the reading that the top ten percent in America who have countless wealth can be extreme influential on how America is ruled. That I agree. In the Omi Winant book, Racial Formation in the U.S. mentions race and its significant affection to America. They argue about that race has been ignored as an important factor in understanding American politics and society. There are three different perspectives on American race: â€Å"ethnicity-based theory†, â€Å"class-based theory† and â€Å"nation-based theory†. Ethnicity-based theory is how we categorize people by skin color and phenotype. Most people recognize common racial categories in the United States including black, white, Asian, Latino, and Indian. Class-based theory is to overlook the power of race in social, economic and political relations. â€Å"Nation-based theory is pr imarily concerned with exploring colonialism as the