ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the misperceptions in popular views of inequality, considering both historical and current dimensions and causes. It offers some prognostications about the failure to come to a resolution concerning these points. Andrea Grisold and Hendrik Theine also noted that the mainstream media often frames inequality in racist, classist, and sexist terms. Social scientists frequently rely on abstract measures of inequality. A land of opportunity implies that inequality is acceptable due to differences in achievement, talent, industriousness, and other worthy qualities. William D. Darity et al. point out that standard measures of economic well-being and inequality such as per capita income, the distribution of income by quintile or decile, or the Gini Index do not include race or ethnicity. In addition to a rise in economic literature questioning conventional assumptions regarding the causes and consequences of inequality, there has also been a pronounced shift in recommended policy responses.
