Date:
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Abstract
Defenders of social equality need to provide an account of the main features of the societies they support. This is a significant challenge. In other work I have argued that social equality should be understood in terms of the avoidance of certain asymmetric and alienated social relations, which is to say that a socially equal society is one that avoids certain social inequalities and other undesirable social relations. In this paper I draw on social scientific literature on poverty and on childhood development to explore some forms of social exclusion that would be avoided in a society of equals, and outline, in abstract, some strategies for diminishing social inequality.