One of the critical and acute social problems has been and remains the problem of social inequality.
The order of "social inequality", showing uneven distribution of different benefits and boons in society, is the subject
of heated debate among economists in ultramodern world. A characteristic point of our modern society - its differences
in public, social, demographic, class, religious, gender, material and other characteristics - has led to emergence of
social inequality.
The most extreme forms of inequality in society lead to "social rejection", which gives rise to several negative
consequences for society. Its ascendance is exacerbated by the fact that it easily passes into numerous other social
problems and exacerbates them. In this connection, from point of view of economists, the smoothing of pronounced
acute inequality is much more important than even economic growth. Therefore, in order to maintain the stabilization of
society, it is extremely important to recognize the level of social inequality timely manner and prevent its critical edge.
The article considers and analyzes in detail the material that reveals the essence of socio-economic
inequality of the population, its scale in modern Kazakhstan. The reasons of inequality were identified and assessed, its
consequences were studied, and the main directions for reducing the scale of inequality and poverty were identified.
The aim of this article is to completely define the category of "social inequality" and analyze the level of
social inequality in Kazakhstan. In the course of work, methods of statistical, economic analysis and comparison were
used to determine the state and problems of social inequality in the country.