essential that we step outside the realm of our own lives, class position, and

discard any assumptions we might have about the nature of inequality. This

process of critical pedagogy allows us to view our world, not from our

perspective, but from a wider, more critical analysis of inequality's nature. Also, it

should be considered within this wider perspective that all theories of inequality

have a class perspective, where the theorist, based on the position their theory

takes, is making claims from (or for) a particular class (whether they want to or

not). With this in mind, it seems that most of these theories come from fairly elite

class perspectives and, in turn, tend to be more pessimistic about bringing change

to the inequalities they are evaluating. Of the classical (elite) explanations of

inequality, Max Weber's seemed to be most accepted within the domain of

sociology and other social sciences dealing with modes of inequality. Weber, who

believes that we are living within a sort of "iron cage" which cannot allow us to

look beyond the rules and regulations of our capitalist system, emphasizes the

aspects of society), and party (which correlates with the political aspects of

the economic system are alienation and the bureaucracy, which create a

inequality. Because capitalism produces both wealth and poverty, society creates

performed. The working class, on the other hand, are trading their labor for

equal in opportunity, when, in fact, there is no such thing as equality in a system

themselves as being the most important people within the whole of society? Surely

than moral and social improvements, and we begin to value our world in terms of

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