Social inequality

Question 1

Feudalism

Answer 1

In the Middle Ages society was divided into different layers

King at the top, Lords, knights and peasants at the bottom

Question 2

Slavery

Answer 2

Where individuals are owned by others

Question 3

Caste system

Answer 3

Still found in India today

A Hindu based systems which has the untouchables at the bottom of society

Question 4

Achieved status

Answer 4

Where your position is based on your efforts and achievement

Question 5

Open societies

Answer 5

Social mobility is possible
All citizens have the same legal rights
There are no legal restrictions on marriage between members of different social classes
There are no official distinctions between social classes

Question 6

Registrar general’s scale

Answer 6

A way of measuring social class which divides occupations between manual and non-manual

Question 7

Issues with the registrar general scale

Answer 7

The very rich you do not work are not included how much people own is not included students and retired people are not included

Question 8

The underclass

Answer 8

Those at the bottom of society you are not fully part of society
(Long-term unemployed, disabled and chronically ill)
Dependent on welfare payments,
criticised for causing crime and social problems

Question 9

Social mobility

Answer 9

Movement up and down the class system

Question 10

Intergenerational mobility

Answer 10

A child of working class parents become middle class

Question 11

Intragenerational mobility

Answer 11

When movement occurs within one generation
E.g a person who starts off within a working class occupation and gets promoted to middle class

Question 12

Embourgeoisement

Answer 12

The idea of working classes have moved up in the social class system to become middle-class

Due to: educational qualifications, marrying someone of a higher status and gaining promotion

Question 13

Proletarianisation

Answer 13

When The middle class have to do non-manual work which is becoming increasingly low-paid and having more in common with manual work

Question 14

Absolute mobility

Answer 14

Total numbers of people moving up and down the social class hierarchy

Question 15

Relative mobility

Answer 15

Looks at the life chances of one individual from one class being mobile being compared to an individual from another class being mobile

Question 16

Sex

Answer 16

Biological differences between men and women

Question 17

Gender

Answer 17

Cultural and social differences between men and women

Question 18

Glass ceiling

Answer 18

Women finding it difficult to reach top positions in the workplace

Question 19

Double/triple shift

Answer 19

Women still do most of the housework as well as working and looking after children

Question 20

Gender quake

Answer 20

A shift in gender relations

Question 21

Ladette culture

Answer 21

Young women behaving like men

Question 22

Landowning aristocracy

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Titles with Lord or Duke, upper class because of the land they own

Question 23

Pop aristocracy

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Those in media or sport who have acquired lots of wealth

Question 24

Entrepreneurs

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Those who have amassed fortunes through their businesses

Question 25

Upper middle class

Answer 25

Professional occupations and managers

Question 26

Lower middle class

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Occupations such as office workers and telephone operators

Question 27

Petty bourgeoisie

Answer 27

Owners of small businesses and self-employed within the middle class

Question 28

Old working class

Answer 28

Traditional Labour supporters who depend on public services

Question 29

New working class

Answer 29

More likely to vote Conservative and higher incomes and B house owners

Question 30

Racism

Answer 30

The belief one racial group is naturally superior to another

Question 31

Institutional racism

Answer 31

Racism carried out by an organisation

Question 32

Examples of racial discrimination

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Verbal abuse name-calling racial attacks harassment Minority ethnic group's higher rates of unemployment Minority ethnic groups more likely to be excluded from school and underachieving Minority ethnic groups more likely to be in poor housing

Question 33

Ageism

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In the treatment of older people as different and inferior because of the age rather than any qualities and individual house Can occur through unemployment and refusal of medical treatments

Question 34

Groups likely to suffer from poverty

Answer 34

``` Lone parents and their children Woman ethnic minority asylum seekers Chronically ill disabled elderly dependent on benefits long-term unemployed ```

Question 35

Absolute poverty

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When someone does not have enough income to buy things needed to survive like food

Question 36

Relative poverty

Answer 36

When someone is poor, cannot afford luxuries that others have but can afford food

Question 37

Environmental poverty

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When someone lives in an environment which cannot provide a quality of life such as being near Parks, good schools and the shops and services

Question 38

Subjective poverty

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When an individual feels deprived when comparing themselves with someone else

Question 39

Immediate gratification

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Living for the moment rather than preparing for later in life

Question 40

Fatalism

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Giving up and not doing anything to improve your situation

Question 41

Cycle of deprivation

Answer 41

Shows how poverty can be passed on from one generation to another

Question 42

Dependent on welfare

Answer 42

Relying on benefits rather than getting a job and improving the situation

Question 43

Poverty trap

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Were being poor means that many things are more expensive and therefore the poor are stuck in poverty

Question 44

Beveridge report, defeat the the five Giants | 1945

Answer 44

Want - introducing old age pensions and benefits Disease - introducing NHS Ignorance - providing free secondary education up to 16 Squalor - knocking down slums and building council houses Idleness - trying to ensure there was full employment

Question 45

Universal benefits

Answer 45

Benefits given to everyone

Question 46

Means tested benefits

Answer 46

Benefits only given to those who need it

Question 47

Informal voluntary care

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Relatives and members of community

Question 48

Formal voluntary sector

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Charities and similar groups

Question 49

Private sector

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Businesses providing services that people have to pay

Question 50

Stratification

Answer 50

The way different groups of people are places at differs levels of society, based on social class, gender, ethnicity, age and disability

Question 51

Economic stratification

Answer 51

Some people have more money than others | E.g. People who own their own home rather than rent

Question 52

Power stratification

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The ability to get people to do something | E.g. People who can arrest others

Question 53

social status stratification

Answer 53

In society we value some things people have | E.g. People like celebs

Question 54

Why is there limited social mobility in Uk?

Answer 54

- culture - internships - self imposed barrier - family and friends

Question 55

Social exclusion

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When poor people are socially excluded from the normal past times and pleasures the majority of population take for granted e.g. Holidays, school trips

Question 56

What are the Effects of poverty

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- lack in meals - jealousy - breathing problems - no dreams - negative - low self esteem

Question 57

Poverty trap

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When the individual becomes trapped in poverty - when people have no incentive to get better paid jobs or work more hours

Question 58

Structural cause of poverty

Answer 58

Society is to blame, not the individual

Question 59

Functionalist view on poverty

Answer 59

Society is meritocratic

Question 60

Marxist view on poverty

Answer 60

Rich get rich and poor get poorer

Question 61

Culture of poverty

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The idea poor people have no particular culture that keeps them in poverty

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Fatalism

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The attitude some people have where they don't think they can do anything to help theirselves or to improve their situation

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Immediate gratification

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An attitude which believes you should enjoy life Now by spending rather than saving

Question 64

Cycle of deprivation

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Shows how the culture of poverty can be passed o from one generation to the next