Evidence of Inequalities Flashcards
Social Class - Income/Workplace/Wealth
Mac an Ghail - deindustrialisation, crisis of masculinity, unemployment
Willis - lads, manual labour jobs, no aspiration
Social Class - Education
Bourdieu - hidden curriculum, dominant class, social reproduction, discrimination, cultural capital
Jackson - ladettes, anti-school attitudes, assertive femininity, labelled
Social Class - Media
Price - poverty porn, underclass, exploitation, condemning, own personal experiences
Jones - chavtainment, bigoted, slothful, aggressive, salt of the earth to scum of the earth
Milliband - media is the opium of the people, capitalist society inequality is inevitable
Social Class - Crime
Walmsley et al - 41% prisoners are from the lowest social class, 19% of overall population
Coles - poor = commit crime
Harding - deprivation, crime for income, street casino, street capital
Gender (Female) - Income/Workplace/Wealth
Laura Bates - everyday sexism project, UK parliament men outnumber women 4 to 1, 18/108 High Court judges are female
Adkins - horizontal and vertical segregation, sexual harassment
The Financial Times - gender pay gap, financial and insurance sector
Gender (Female) - Education
Skelton - hidden curriculum
Kelly - science, disengagement
Colley - subject choices, perception of gender roles, subject preferences, learning environment
Gender (Female) - Media
Ferguson - content analysis of magazines, cult of femininity
Tuchman - symbolic annihilation, media omit, trivialise, or condemn
Mulvey - male gaze, sexualise women, passive objects for male desire
Gender (Female) - Crime
Harding - gangs, fixers, sexual abuse and harassment
Laura Bates - everyday sexism project, over 2 women a week killed by current or former partner
Leonard - doubly deviant, break gender roles
Gender (Male) - Income/Workplace/Wealth
Farrell - glass cellar, 25 professions, 24 are 85-100% male dominated
Dermott - men work longer hours
Benatar - the second sexism, men take the least desirable and most dangerous jobs
Gender (Male) - Education
Willis - lads, manual labour jobs, anti-school attitudes
Mitsos and Browne - teachers are lenient on laddish behaviour, hard on girls, doubly deviant
Gender (Male) - Media
Sewell - Black Afro-Caribbean boys, matriarchal backgrounds, anti-school subcultures
Easthorpe - masculinity is based on strength, aggression, competition, violence is biologically determined, natural goal
Gender (Male) - Crime
Messerschmidt - gang do masculinity, accomplished masculinity
Campbell - denied masculninity through academia or breadwinner, turn to violence to express masculinity
Faludi - perfomring their masculinity, toughness, bravery, strength
Ethnicity - Income/Workplace/Wealth
Wood et al - job applications, 16 instead of 9
Parkin - negatively privileged status group, social closure, concrete ceiling
Ethnicity - Education
Mirza - black Afro-Caribbean girls, institutional racism, negative labelling
Gillborn - black Caribbean boys, institutional racism, lower sets and tiers
Ethnicity - Media
Alexander - the myth of the Asian Gang, criminalised, islamophobia
Van Dijk - content analysis, stereotypes, criminal, abnormal, a threat, unimportant, dependent, blanket terminology
Ethnicity - Crime
Hood - black men hold custodial sentences, institutional racism
Social Trends Survey - black people 7x more likely to be stopped
The Lammy Report - over 40% young people BAME in prison, BAME men and women 25%
Age (Youth) - Income/Workplace/Wealth
Ritzer - Mcjobs, zero-hour contracts
BBC Three - under 25s, lack of support for housing
The Equality Trust - young people in bad situation
Age (Youth) - Health
Youngpeopleshealth.org.uk - 75% mental health problems start before 24 but 0.7% spent
The Guardian - famiyl carers, intergenerational care
Cheung, Hagell and Shah - youth long term conditions
Age (Youth) - Media
Cohen - negative labelling, folk devils, mods and rockers, self-fulfilling prophecy
Griffin - dysfunctional, suffering a deficit, deviant, self-fulfilling prophecy
Women in Journalism - hoodies and altar boys, negative language, teenage boys, stories, newpapers
Age (Youth) - Crime
Jacobson - 3/4 absent fathers, 1/2 live in deprived households, 1/2 run away from care, complex backgrounds
Harding - deprivation, street casino, street capital
Youth Endowment Fund - 16% of teenage children been victim to violence, 47% of teens been vicitm to violence
Age (Elderly) - Income/Workplace/Wealth
Johnson - ageism, institutionalised, stereotypes
Barron and Norris - secondary labour market
Age (Elderly) - Health
Greengross - institutional ageism
The Royal College of Surgeons and Age UK - no one over 75 is offered crucial surgery, illegal
Human Rights Watch - social support, denied cruicial services, not understanding
Age (Elderly) - Media
Landis - one dimensional
Carrigan and Szmigin - ignored in media, stereotyped as a caricature of an elderly person, smelly and incontinent
Digital Generation Gap - technology
Age (Elderly) - Crime
Financial Times - over-60s in jail topped 4,000, number of inmates with dementia has risen
Age UK - fraud scams, financial loss twice as much
BBC - care not good enough, safeguarding referrals
