The Most Unequal Region on the Planet? A Sociological Analysis of the Ideas, Evaluations and Attitudes Toward Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

ASSUSA GONZALO

Persistence and Emergencies of_Inequalities in Latin America. A Multidimensional Approach

Springer

Lugar: Steinhausen; Año: 2022; p. 185 - 204

This chapter raises the deep inequality of thecontinent, and seeks to explain some questions about economic inequality and distributivejustice, subjective social class and images of social structure. Although, hepoints out, in recent decades the region has undergone profound transformations(reduction of inequality gaps in the different dimensions of social life and a sharpdrop in poverty-related statistics), it is not said that inequalities have diminished,nor have the parameters of tolerance of inequality and redistributive consensus.