A study of 50,000 houses from the late Pleistocene to the onset of European colonialism has revealed that social inequality ...

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That's according to a new study that challenges ...

Take the example of the three-card monte or shell game played ... inequality account for significant differences in inequality’s impact on trust and social capital. Inequality within socioeconomic ...

This area encompasses the study of power relations, inequality, resistance and demands for social justice. Among the subjects addressed are gender, ethnicity and class inequality, human rights, ...