ABSTRACT
The character and scale of social inequality reveal the real purpose of regulating social differentiation, the camouflaged forms of social injustice and the appearance of its new mechanisms, and the actual distribution of property, goods, rights, and obligations. A sociologist may speak about social homogeneity when, empirically, the nature of a respondent’s social goods and obligations does not depend on his belonging to a particular social group. The difference, clash, and incompatibility between a collectivist and an individualistic understanding of justice shows up especially clearly in the question of inheritance. An ideology and psychology affirming the relativity of justice always arises to the advantage of some privileged strata, the preconditions for justifying any kind of group egoism are formed, and people endeavor to replace moral criteria for evaluating social processes by other criteria, economic criteria, for example.
