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Richard Wilkinson, Kate PickettA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
How do Wilkinson and Pickett support their argument that humans are sensitive to status, social hierarchy, and degrees of inequality? Explain with references to the text.
The authors acknowledge that most of the social and health issues they are concerned about are more prevalent amongst the poorest people in a country’s population. How do they try to separate the problem of poverty from a country’s scale of inequality? Explain.
Identify the list of the social problems which Wilkinson and Pickett claim are signs of social failure and analyze how they assigned countries a “score” based on these issues.
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