CONCEPTIONAL way of essay we will analyze the themes of democracy, citizenship and social inequality seen from the point of view of the thinkers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Alexis de Tocqueville and Karl Marx.So to whom it refers for the liberal tradition the notion of citizenship is a legal concept, a legal status. Likewise, for Marx, man lives in a constant duality: his individual life and his generic life. Their generic life, that is, their political life, is their citizenship. The next point is that democracy, according to Tocqueville, is the system of government that most conforms to human nature, due to the importance it attributes to individual freedom. For him, the United States represented the clearest example of democracy and egalitarian culture. Likewise, the equality of American life becomes a categorical factor for the development of democracy as a political regime. But he also warned of the risks that this majority government entails and which could degenerate into despotism. Finally, social inequality is essentially a product of the exploitation of workers or the proletariat by the dominant economic class. Freedom and equality will only be possible when these relations of exploitation of all social life are dissolved. JUDGMENT The first and most fundamental law of nature is to seek peace, follow it and preserve it. On the other hand, the second law of nature consists in the renunciation of that natural right that every man possesses: that of governing himself. Consequently, security is the supreme right of bourgeois society; It is the right by which each individual is guaranteed the conservation of his own p...... middle of paper ......these authors have each tried, starting from their theoretical contributions, to reflect on the problems of the his time. It is true that there is a certain balance between what happened in the past and what is happening now. We realize that when looking at the history of social and political progress and the development of countries, it is necessary to take into account economic and political power structures. To conclude, we think that the relationship between democracy, citizenship and the resulting dependency between politics and different economies are very important elements that must be considered when examining the concept of social inequality. The theory that more democracy in a country, more justice and less inequality, has not been seen, and the worst thing is that social inequality has increased simultaneously with the already mentioned growth of democracy..