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The paper employs the distribution of heights within male populations and between males and females in pre-historic, agrarian and industrial societies to measure inequality and to examine its economic and political sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The actual significance of ?class? as a structural basis of inequality remains in almost every society, while the academic interest in it declining. In particular, the development of capitalist social stratification that perpetuates the structure of the unequal distribution of opportunities and resources, combined with the legal/institutional changes of the past decades, makes class more significant than any other factors (such as gender, ethnicity, or race) in explaining inequality of historically suppressed groups. A range of empirical evidence indicates that class factor still remains a significant, and sometimes the most significant, cause of social inequality today. Neglect the continuing significance of class as such, however, the advocates of ?multiculturalism? tend to reduce the issue of minority group inequality to a matter of cultural recognition. Criticizing the ?culturalist? approach of multiculturalism, in this paper, I purpose to argue that the significance of class as a structural basis of inequality continues, and this makes it necessary to bring a class perspective back into equality discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores Hobbes' Leviathan to uncover how Hobbes' believed that his teaching could come into practice. The paper focus' on how Hobbes believed his teaching could be universally valid. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the conditions under which white Americans will express that being white systematically benefits them. It furthermore examines the role of recognizing this privilege in support of policies of racial equality. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines the adverse effect on rural inequality following the arrival of the neoliberal market in land a remote Ecuadorian community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We propose to develop and test a theory of opinion formation in which individuals? normative beliefs about equality and hierarchy in economic and social relationships fundamentally affect their preferences for specific government policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]