This article sets out a more-than-human framework within which to explore the contribution of non-human matter to social inequality. Applying an approach based in Deleuzian ethology, we extend three invitations: to address the multiplicity and fluidity of dis/advantage, to explore its production in everyday interactions, and to acknowledge non-human as well as human matter in the emergence of dis/advantage. The article examines how the interactions between human and non-human matter produce and reproduce context-specific bodily capacities and incapacities, and consequently ‘a thousand tiny dis/advantages’. These dis/advantages may accumulate to produce substantive inequalities and social divisions. An illustrative re-reading of Paul Willis’s 1970s study of the cultural reproduction of social inequality Learning to Labour reveals the complex ways in which daily encounters between human and non-human matter produce both transient and lasting dis/advantage. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of this more-than-human perspective for the sociological study of inequality.

本文提出了一个超越人类的框架，在其中探索非人类物质对社会不平等的贡献。我们采用基于德洛伊兹民族学的方法，提出了三点邀请：解决dis / advantage的多样性和流动性，探索其在日常交往中的产生，并承认dis / advantage出现时的非人类和人类物质。本文研究了人类与非人类物质之间的相互作用如何产生和再现特定于上下文的身体能力和无能，并因此产生了“一千个小缺点/优势”。这些弊端可能会累积，造成实质性的不平等和社会分化。对保罗·威利斯（Paul Willis）1970年代关于社会不平等的文化再现的研究的说明性重读学习劳动揭示了人类与非人类物质之间的日常接触会产生短暂和持久的弊端/局面的复杂方式。最后，我们讨论了这种非人类视角对不平等的社会学研究的意义。