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The Problem of Social Inequality: Why It Destroys Democracy, Threatens the Planet, and What We Can Do About It
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Within and among nations, rising levels of social inequality threaten our collective future. Currently, upwards of 80% of peoples life chances are determined by factors over which they have absolutely no control. Social inequality threatens the democratic project because it destroys the trust on which governments depend, and it gives rise to corrupt political and economic institutions. How can we get out of the traps we have created for ourselves? We need to reboot capitalism. Drawing on diverse examples from a range of countries, McNall explains the social, economic, and ecological traps we have set for ourselves and develops a set of rules of resilience that are necessary conditions for the creation and maintenance of democratic societies, and a set of rules essential for creating a sustainable future.

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The Problem of Social Inequality

Within and among nations, rising levels of social inequality threaten our collective future. Currently, upwards of 80% of peoples life chances are determined by factors over which they have absolutely no control. Social inequality threatens the democratic project because it destroys the trust on which governments depend, and it gives rise to corrupt political and economic institutions. How can we get out of the traps we have created for ourselves? We need to reboot capitalism. Drawing on diverse examples from a range of countries, McNall explains the social, economic, and ecological traps we have set for ourselves and develops a set of rules of resilience that are necessary conditions for the creation and maintenance of democratic societies, and a set of rules essential for creating a sustainable future.

Scott G. McNall is Emeritus Provost and Professor at California State University (CSUC), Chico and currently an affiliated Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Montana. He was the founding Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development at CSUC. He lives with his wife, Sally, in Missoula, Montana.

Scott McNall has written a lucid, comprehensive, and compelling account of economic inequality, its intersections with other forms of social inequality, and the threats it poses to democracy and the planet. His recommendations for reforming the current neoliberal capitalist regime suggest a sustainable path to a more democratic future.

Robert J. Antonio, Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas

Scott McNalls book moves effortlessly from big-picture to ground-level issues as he assesses the entrenched nature of inequalities. This readable treatment helps student readers see how Marx and Weber can illuminate their own struggles to pay for college, find jobs, establish relationships, and escape or avoid debt. McNall strikes exactly the right tone as he patiently excavates the global from the local. His brand of applied critical theory works.

Ben Agger, Professor of Sociology and Humanities and Director, Center for Theory, University of Texas at Arlington

McNall provides a sophisticated analysis of growing degrees of inequality in the world, as well as its causes, consequences, and solutions. As ones life chances are increasingly determined by irrelevant moral criteria such as gender, ethnicity, religion, and family, the trust on which a democracy depends is quickly eroded. The book offers a wise and plausible message for success: create high levels of human capital. By joining together the issues of climate change, social inequality, corruption, trust, and democracy, McNall offers the beginnings of a road map to a much-improved world.

Tom Kando, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Sacramento State University

The Problem of Social Inequality provides essential insights into the causes of social inequality and why inequality serves as a major barrier [to] creating a sustainable and resilient future. The author argues that we need to reboot capitalism by maximizing human talent and creativity in order to adapt to an unknown future. For students and practitioners, this work is a significant contribution to discussions about global progress and should be required reading in both the social and environmental sciences.

Jim Pushnik, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development at California State University, Chico

At a time when inequality has become the catchword for all that ails the globalized world, we are nevertheless ignorant of its sources, dynamics, and consequences. McNalls book is the go-to text for redressing these grievous inadequacies in current scholarship. Its central virtue is in pushing well behind the parochial fixation on income differentials. Instead, he views equality in all its various dimensionsand especially the catastrophic causal consequences of the drastic imbalance in political power at the local, national, and global level, the consequently lethal mal-distribution of health care and material well-being, and the often unobserved but brutal consequences of cultural inequality. And, within this, McNall harnesses his global focus to underscore, diagnose, and analyze the less-than-mediocre performance of the United States in addressing these issues within our national boundaries.

Michael Schwartz, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University

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McNall, Scott G., author.

The problem of social inequality: why it destroys democracy, threatens the planet, and what we can do about it / Scott G. McNall.

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1. Equality. 2. Democracy. 3. Social problems. 4. Social action. I. Title.

HN18.3.M3995 2016

303.3dc23 2015023241

ISBN: 978-1-138-95971-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-95970-5 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-65923-7 (ebk)

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In the spring of 2006 I was sitting on the roof of a house in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, with a student from California State University, Chico. Students in the Construction Management Program, along with some of the faculty, had gone to help rebuild peoples homes in New Orleans about six months after Hurricane Katrina had struck. I went along for a short time to offer encouragement and help. They pulled a trailer 2,400 miles from Chico, California, to New Orleans loaded with the tools and equipment needed and when they arrived went to work immediately replacing electrical wiring, repairing plumbing, hanging sheet rock, reroofing houses, and repairing floors. They were repairing and rebuilding the homes of people who were living temporarily in trailers provided by FEMA, sometimes parked in the yard of their homes waiting for the crew to finish so they could move what possessions they still had back in.

The power and intensity of the storm was driven by the warming waters of the Gulf, a result of the growing effects of climate change.1,2 When the levees gave way, 80% of the city of New Orleans was flooded with water, completely submerging the homes of some. In St. Bernard Parish, where the students were working, not all homes in a block were being repaired, because their owners could not be found. Many, especially the poor, never came back. In fact, five years after Katrina the population of St. Bernard Parish had dropped by almost 50%.3

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