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Reproducing Inequality in Sociology
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Reproducing Inequality in Sociology

Victor E Ray
Sociological forum (Randolph, N.J.), Vol.34(1), pp.236-244
03/2019
DOI: 10.1111/socf.12488

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Abstract

This essay discusses some mechanisms reproducing inequality in the discipline of sociology. I argue that credit for communally produced ideas accrues to individual and that the discipline is governed by a kind of “racial contract” partially governing which ideas and individuals are included. As a discipline centrally concerned with inequality and stratification, I argue sociologists should employ greater reflexivity when thinking about how disciplinary practices reproduce structures we typically critique in other contexts.
Sociology academia classism elitism hierarchy racism

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