Social Inequality

Question 1

Social inequality

Answer 1

Uneven distribution of wealth, healthcare, education, services

Race, ethnicity

Question 2

Social mobility

Answer 2

Vertical mobility (between classes)

Horizontal mobility (within the same class)

Question 3

Meritocracy

Answer 3

Extreme social mobility

Your position in society is based on you abilities

Question 4

Caste system

Answer 4

No social mobility

Everything is based on what you inherit

Question 5

Class system

Answer 5

Some social mobility

Based on both inheritance and abilities

Question 6

Intragenerational mobikity

Answer 6

I can move up or down within my life time

Question 7

Intergenerational mobility

Answer 7

I’m low class but my kids could be upper class

Question 8

Absolute poverty

Answer 8

It’s a specific line that doesn’t change!

Things needed for survival

Question 9

Relative poverty line

Answer 9

Changes with the median country income.

Excluded from society: education, transport,

Question 10

Social reproduction

Answer 10

We reproduce social inequality across generations

Rich people have rich kids, poor people have poor kids

Question 11

Social capital

Cultural capital

Answer 11

Networks, connections

Knowing cultural things, music, fine art

Question 12

Social exclusion

Answer 12

Leads to further ill health and criminal behavior

Caused by poverty, ill health, discrimination etc

Question 13

Spatial mismatch

Answer 13

Difference between where people live and where opportunities are

Question 14

Global inequality

Answer 14

Healthcare, wealth, water the world is unequal!

Question 15

Intersectionality

Answer 15

When

1. Sex
2. Race/ethnicity
   3 religion

Overlap to create an immense level of descrimination

Question 16

Class consciousness

False consciousness

Answer 16

Solidarity in working class, in struggle , try to obtain means of production

Workers don’t see their exploitation