It is a fortunate grocer who is able to collect 80 per cent. He closed them slowly for a moment, as if to collect his routed thoughts. They give you a lot of trouble to collect, and nobody else will trouble to listen. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. I beg you, sir, to collect your spirits, and to listen to me calmly.
Social inequality and social stratification, according to this view, lead to a meritocracy based on ability. Conflict theorists, on the other hand, view inequality as resulting from groups with power dominating less powerful groups.
Yet what the social science literature demonstrates is that however secure the culture of poverty seems as a hegemonic explanation for racial inequality, it ultimately rests on what are, at the end of the day, nothing more than lies.