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equality

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everyone has the same ‘start point’, everyone is treated equal

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equity

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people are given help to reach the same ‘end point’

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welfare state

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system where the state provides benefits in areas such as employment, medicine, education and housing

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globalisation criticisms

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  • decline in employment in manufacturing
  • global forces as a driving shift in employment to secondary labour market
  • a ‘job for life’ is increasingly rare
  • Use of migrant labour to reduce costs
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factors of globalisation

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  • increased interconnectedness
  • interdependence
  • outsourcing
  • developing / developed world
  • redcar in the north east
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increased interconnectedness

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due to improved transport, technology and communication links

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interdependence

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between nation states resulting in WORLD ECONOMIC ORDER across border

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outsourcing

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results in job losses in developed countries

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developing / developed world

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alleviates poverty in developing world
increasing poverty in developed world

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redcar in the north east

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example of a business devastated in 2015 with the closure of its steel works

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Murray’s view of the welfare state (1980)

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New Right

suggested things to base welfare state on
- people respond to incentives and disincentives
- people will avoid work to behave badly if there’s no reason to work or behave well
- people must be held responsible for their actions if society is to function properly

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Murray’s three laws

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  1. Law of imperfect selection
  2. Law of unintended rewards
  3. Law of net harm

Murray proposed the welfare system should be abolished

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Criticisms of Murray’s view

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  • lone parenthood is not a sign of the growing underclass
  • underclass can be seen as victims of inequality rather than the cause of social problems
  • Murrays statistics are selective
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Underclass

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Those that are deprived, rejected by working class resort to deviant behaviour to achieve societies basic goals

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Standard state of poverty

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Official statistics calculated on individual environment to claim benefits

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Relative income

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Based on income that falls below the average for similar houses

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Relative deprivation

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Lack of resources to engage in customary activities/ living conditions

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Peter Townsend

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Identified the three definitions for poverty
- State standard of poverty
- Relative income
- Relative deprivation

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5 Contributions towards describing poverty

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  1. Seebohm Rowntree
  2. Peter Townsend
  3. Social mobility and child poverty commission
  4. Social metric commission
  5. Kelloggs
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Marxist view on poverty

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Poverty is a consequence of capitalism due to inequalities and unfairness of capitalism

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Absolute poverty

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Inability to satisfy even the basic needs for food, shelter and clothing

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Inter generational social mobility

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Movement between the generations of a family, occurs when a child enters a different class from their parents

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Intra generational social mobility

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Movement of an individual between social classes over their lifetime

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Social mobility

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Movement of people up or down a society’s strata.
Can be achieved by marrying into a family with a higher social class

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Petty bourgeoisie

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Lower middle class owners of small businesses. They would join the proletariat.

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Instrumentalism

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describes the attitudes of some working class people towards their jobs and any form of collective action

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life chances

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opportunities to provide material goods, positive living conditions and cultural capital
Factors that determine the ability to access education and employment

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Sexuality and life chances

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  • Homosexuality was a criminal offence until 1967
  • Homophobic bullying in schools prevents LGBT kids from pursuing their passions
  • Fear of homophobia still prevents people from expressing themselves
  • 79 countries still have anti-homosexuality laws
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Age and life chances

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  • Ageism is more common in younger groups
  • High levels of age discrimination is faced by older people
  • Elderly can suffer from age discrimination
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Gender and life chances

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  • Women are more likely to be in lower paid jobs
  • Women are more likely to be in the instrumental role whereas men are more likely to be in the role of a breadwinner
  • Despite this, woman’s employment has expanded over time
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Ethnicity and life chances

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  • Ethnicity has given some people a disadvantage when it comes to a premature death
  • Historically, most minority groups have experienced discrimination
    -Prejudice
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Religion and life chances

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  • Religious belief is a source of direct and indirect discrimination
  • Media highlights cases where people of religion feel as though they’re being discriminated against
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Disability and life chances

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  • Affect how people are treated systematically and in everyday life
  • Labelled as inefficiency workers, stigma that they’re unable to work
  • Significant levels of underachievement amongst disabled children
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Social class and life chances

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  • Inequalities are played down as post modernists claim that, “class is dead”
  • Inequalities overlooked as media focus is elsewhere
  • Income and wealth allow rich to enjoy a better health and longer life expectancy
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Weber’s four broad categories (Social class)

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  1. Property owning class (individuals with economic power)
  2. Professional middle class (intellectual)
  3. Petty bourgeoisie (Lower middle class owners of small businesses)
  4. Manual working class
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Criticisms of Marx’s view on class

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  • Ignores presence of meritocracy
  • Over-deterministic and ignores gender
  • Little attention to other factors
  • Capitalism is still used in todays society, its more stable than anticipated (outdated!)
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Danvis and moore key study

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  • Argue that social strat is a universal necessity because society. is based upon meritocracy
  • Society will pay more for functionally important jobs
  • Higher wages act as an incentive for talented/hardworking individuals
  • More ambitious = more rewards
  • Functionalist perspective
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Danvis and Morre criticisms

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  • Other criteria could influence their choices in career
  • Marxist view says that social mechanisms ensure class inequality is reproduced from generation to generstion
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Meritocracy

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Social system that rewards merit rather than inherited status

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Role allocation

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Giving roles to those individuals with the best talents and skills necessary for the demands of the role

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Marxist view on stratification

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  • Marxists believe that society is stratified and it cannot be eliminated
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Feminist view on stratification

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  • Feminists believe that the patriarchal system must be overthrown for society to change its stratification, which is unlikely to happen
  • Stratification cannot be eliminated and society remains stratified
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Functionalist view of stratification

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Social stratification is important in society as a person has achieved their status

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Examples of stratified societies

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  • Slavery system
  • Caste system
  • Estate system
  • Class system
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Slavery (transatlantic)

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Ascribed, closed system

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Caste

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Ascribed, closed

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Estates

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achieved, open

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Class

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achieved, open

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Criticisms of Weber’s view on class

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  • Men and women form the same social position don’t necessarily occupy the same market situation
  • FUNCTIONALISTS would see Weber’s analysis as over-structural
  • MARXISTS would say that the wealthiest members of society will tend to be the most powerful , whilst the poor remain powerless
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Lumpenproletariat

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The lowest level of the working class in nineteenth century society

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advantages of globalisation

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  • creates wealth
  • brings new opportunities
  • raises living standards

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