"Analyzing Social Inequalities: Economic and Sociological Perspectives of Thomas Piketty and the Pinçons"

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[...] In fact, according to him, «every society effectively needs to give meaning to its inequalities and its social organization. It is largely a question of the political regime, but it also involves immediately answering questions about social inequality, in particular the one separating citizens from foreigners5 » (Piketty, 2019). II. Social Inequalities, the Sociological Vision of Monique Pinçon-Charlot- and Michel Pinçon Sociology, on the other hand, and particularly urban sociology has long ignored the neighborhoods of wealth and privilege in cities to the extent that they house, according to common sense, few 'social problems'. [...]

[...] Dynasties family and forms of wealth in France. In fact, according to them, their analysis must allow to understand the 'processes that allow to maintain and - conserve the dominant social positions7» (Pinçon- Pinçon-Charlot, 1996: 16) and, in fact, to perpetuate social inequalities. For these two sociologists, the question is to know how the type of culture and its communication are a form of symbolic violence. To do this, the dominant class, that is to say the great fortunes, lives in reserved high-end neighborhoods and this isolation, resulting from the elective spatial aggregation of family dynasties, is a fundamental characteristic of the group. [...]

[...] Indeed, following this, it is essential to understand that the economist Thomas Piketty's approach is to appreciate inequalities in a diachronic perspective without omitting the dynamic nature of these evolutions over the centuries. In this vision, Thomas Piketty proposes to understand inequalities as an inherent factor in any era and economic context. Indeed, according to him, 'the question of inequality and redistribution has always been at the heart of political conflict, particularly in democratic societies, where the proclaimed equality of citizens' rights contrasts strikingly with the effective inequality of living conditions'2 » (Piketty, 2013). [...]

[...] In fact, whether it is the diachronic perspective used by Thomas Piketty or the synchronic perspective of sociologists Pinçon and Pinçon-Charlot, it remains that the great concentration of capitals, whether economic or social, is seized by the Bourgeoisie and the dominant class. The modes of life, economic and political systems being shaped by the social space in force in the society of belonging. Although determinism is prevalent in both approaches, it remains that the economic and sociological domains can teach us through different means, the production of hierarchies in society, where access or not to different capitals (social, economic, political, cultural) found social inequalities. [...]

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