TRANSFORMATION OF INEQUALITY: HISTORICAL APPROACH
The article deals such property of social inequality, as transformation or permanent transfiguration. This is due to a change in the structure of inequality in different historical periods. Fundamental changes in the structure of inequality is the emergence of new forms of inequality - from inequality due to the ranking of professions according to their prestige, originated in ancient societies, to the emergence of more modern forms, such as information inequality. The authors of the article resort to certain classifications of inequality (J.-J. Rousseau, J. Ternborn, E. Atkinson), are analyze examples of how permissions whether new and intensifiend or weakened already existing factors of social inequality, under what circumstances the processes went through some of the transformation steps. It is reported that the influence of culture has a direct impact on the processes of formation and transformation of inequality, including the factor of diffusion of cultures in the framework of globalization processes. The authors posit that the indicated property of inequality actualizes the interest of its study using a historical approach.