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From: Jill Ann McCorkel <jmccorke@UDel.Edu>
To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International <socgrad@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: Re: Forms/Levels of Inequality
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It seems to me that you are conflating "private" with "non-social"--are
you suggesting that gender oppression, for example, is not
institutionalized in the "private" sphere of family and personal
relations?  What would constitute a non-social form of oppression and
concomintanly, inequality? Are you taking up a functional analysis to
distinguish social from the non-social?

Jill McCorkel
University of Delaware

>         some forms of inequality were helpful to the 
>         human project: here is my reply.       TRY
> 
> caught it...it is very important to specify levels and forms
> of inequality if we are to institutionalize them.
> 
> 
>                 Use of power inequality becomes a political crime,
>                 in substantive terms, when that power is used for
>                 privatized, non-social reasons.  Sexual exploit-
>                 tation, brutalization and degradation are case in
>                 point./
> 
>