Humanities Homework Help

I’m working on a sociology question and need an explanation to help me learn.

Background

The reading Top Heavy: Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can Be Done about It ‘reveals the unprecedented rise in recent years of wealth inequality and shows how it is one of the major forces challenging democracy and economic opportunity in America. [It] vividly illustrates how the gap between the haves and the have-nots in terms of wealth is greater now than at any time since 1929, immediately preceding the Great Depression. [It] takes a sobering look at how the wealth of the top 1 percent of households continues its heart stopping expansion while the current distribution of wealth in America invites the surprisingly apt comparison with the class-dominated societies of nineteenth-century Europe.’ The book Social Inequality and the two video lessons also show such and similar tendencies in wealth as well as income inequality and its effects on democracy and society.

Discussion Question:

Discuss and explain when and why wealth inequality has risen and whether and how it challenges democracy and economic opportunity in America, including Texas or your own state?