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This essay is free-style writing. Your essay can be a social-scientific analysis of inequality, a personal reflection on inequality, or a book review. The main goal of this essay is to make you read a book on inequality and to give you a chance to think about the social problem in depth.
As a minimal guideline (which you don’t have to follow), I recommend you include the following contents in your essay:
- A brief summary or introduction of the book. It does not have to be a long summary. Nor does your summary need to cover the entire book.
- Discuss what inequality is. Try to provide qualitative and quantitative definitions of inequal-ity. Provide an episode or an example from the book.
- Reflecting on the book you read, discuss why some are poorer than others. What factors affect poverty? You can also discuss a particular aspect of the poverty problem. Your discussion points should be related to the book.
- Try to apply the concepts of functionalism, conflict theories, Marx, and Weber in your essay.
- Discussing poverty/inequality problems using the concepts we discussed in class (e.g., SBTC, institutionalism) is a plus.