Running head: ANDERSEN’S VIEW 1
Andersen’s View on Measures of Inequality
Social inequality is virtually in every society. Social inequality takes places when
wealth in a particular society is divided unevenly suing styles of allocation that entrench
specific patterns according to socially defined categories of individuals. Norms of allocation
can also influence the distribution of access to rights and privileges, social status, justice,
education financial services, public goods as well as other social good goods and services.
Even though many societies across the world state that they distribute resources based on
merit, studies have shown that resources are actually distributed with due to regard to social
categories of people formed on the basis of socially defined features. For instance, resource
distribution can be related to inequalities in race, gender, ethnicity among other status
features.
Social inequality is measured in two ways: inequality of conditions and inequality of
