Ideological inequality construction of normative and prescriptive rhetorics to (des)legitimate poverty

Abstract

Poverty and inequality are the object of study of disciplines such as sociology or economics, but philosophy and political theory have also examined these phenomena. More specifically, the different meanings of ideologies –as counterfeiting, as well as in a strong and attenuated sense– attend the inequality and poverty as cognitive mediations.
From a normative dimension, the ideologies structure rhetorical constructions that legitimize
or impugn such inequalities. In this last assumption, ideologies offer prescriptions to solve such imbalances.