This book explores interpersonal situations in which weak or
vulnerable people find themselves and the ways in which others help
create, sustain, and eradicate such social dynamics. Vladimir
Shlapentokh and Eric Beasley demonstrate that people can gain power
over each other and then abuse this power because of unequal
resource conditions. The authors define resources as the means
necessary for satisfaction or achievement of needs or goals, such
as wealth, physical strength, intellectual capacity and
information, sexual attractiveness, and status. This volume is
different from existing social science books on inequality and
vulnerability, which address relations between people of different
social positions, races, genders, ages, and places of residence
confronting each other in political, economic, and cultural
battles. This book focuses on people who become the victims of
those whom they know personally-relatives, colleagues, neighbors.
The authors argue that unequal resource distribution among members
of social units is the main cause of conflict and ultimately
creates situations where members of a social unit can abuse other
members of the same unit.
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