Equality is The Summation or, in other words, Generalization of Inequality

While studying Sociology, some annoying though came up to my mind;
"Equality is the generalization form of Inequality".

Sociology, for me, is one of the most difficult and boring subject. This word "Sociology" was founded by Auguste Comte but the first person who established Sociology as one of the recognized subject was Emile Durkheim through his study of Suicide.

Every Sociologist did not bother on how to reach an ideal society but to understand the society and how it works to produce stability. Emile Durkheim theory suggested that Society is evoluting by itself, differentiate each of their function to counteract any defying roles of parts of society.

One of the best known figure in Sociology ,nowadays, is Karl Marx. The basic of Marx theory is that society is divided into two different classes, The dominant class and the Subordinate class. The dominant class control the wealth and power while subordinate class work for the dominant class. The subordinate class, such as industrial workers, thus have to work for the Dominant class.

Marx think that the dominant class (feudal and capitalist) exploit the worker by underpaying them. Because in Marx opinion, The dominant class want to maximize their profit and to obtain the higher profit is to lower the cost which is wages of labors. Hence, Marx predicted than this subordinate class will revolt against the dominant class and in the end, they formed a communal society.

These two Sociologist above, in my opinion, is the extremist because not all societies evolutes and not all societies revolts. The common social issues is usually located somewhere between these two guys theory.


As we have seen in our own society, there are many inequalities on how we treat others even our own families or relatives. But if we took a broader view of this society we could see a harmonious, equal society; for example: a maid who is working for a noble man in England, if we see it from micro point of view, this maid is not treated equally, as she did not have all the amenities there. She only working there to clean and maintain their house features. Although the maid received salary for what she has done, it is still not equal because, if for the same amount of money the maid paid the noble man to clean her house, will he willing to? The maid was forced to do it to survive. In the opposite, macro point of view-outside the society context-, we can see that these nobleman and maid society is harmonious as they treated each other equally; for the maid is willing to do the work for the payment and the nobleman is willing to give the payment for the job the maid has done.


Hence, i conclude that Equality is a generalization of inequality.
This can also be proved mathematically.
1+1 = 2
but in closer view from reality we know that :
one bunch of vegetables + one bunch of vegetables = one big bunch of vegetable (inequality)
one male dog + one female dog = a family of 5 dogs (possibly-showing inequality)
from all this example if we see it not as a same, combinable things (out of the context), we can conclude that 1 +1 = 2
one bunch of vegetables + one male dog = 2 things consists of one dog and one bunch of vegetables.


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