Culture and Inequality: Identity, Ideology, and Difference in "Postascriptive Society"

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The content of masculinity and femininity is culturally defined. Views between men and women vary, but most societies feature gender discrimination that leads to gender inequality. Ideology created by culture can be explained as a belief that gender is lower than other gender, so unequal treatment is reasonable. Clearly, religion supports gender discrimination, if you read the scriptures of all religions, you can prove this. The Qur'an is a Muslim scripture and is obedient because it claims that most women are culturally acceptable. For example, an ideal man of men is now changing to a thinner, more sporty appearance, and diet is obsessed by women. These traditional gender roles and social stereotypes constitute the experience and behavior of most men and women, and the basic choices and opportunities in their lives.

Sociologists define ideology as 'cultural beliefs to protect certain social arrangements, including patterns of inequality'. Leading groups utilize these cultural beliefs and practices and justify the system of inequality. It maintains the social power of their group against non-dominant groups. Ideology organizes social relationships in the hierarchy using the symbolic system of society. Some of them are superior to other social identities which are considered to be inferior. The mainstream ideology in society is spreading through society's major social systems such as media, family, education, and religion. Along with changes in social history, the ideology to protect the inequality system is changing.

Social inequality exists in almost every society. Social inequality is determined by various structural factors such as geographical location and citizenship and is based on cultural discourse and identity such as whether the poor are "worth" or "not worth" Often there are things. In a simple society, societal societies and social inequalities rarely occupied by its members may be very low. For example, in tribal society, tribal heads and department chiefs may have certain privileges, use specific tools, mark offices that other people can not access, but the daily life of the secretary is different from others It is very similar to the everyday life of. Members of other tribes. Anthropologists regard this very equalitarian culture as "relative oriented". It seems that this emphasizes social harmony rather than wealth and status. These cultures are in stark contrast to material-oriented culture where place and wealth are emphasized, competition and conflict are common.