life chance

is the chance a person has to share in the economic and cultural goods and to enhance his or her quality of life.

Life-Chances. The chances an individual has of sharing in the economic and cultural goods of a society are referred to in Weberian sociology as 'life-chances'. The distribution of such goods is usually asymmetrical. Material rewards are clearly distributed unequally in most societies, and so are cultural goods, as is shown, for example, by differential access to education. Asymmetrical distribution may reflect different class access to goods. See: Class... Stratification. Bibl. Dahrendorf(i979) (penguin dict of sociology)

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life chance