social inequality key concepts

what is social inequality ?

• The difference between groups in a stratification system. For example when one group has more wealth or income.

• The opportunity to improve your life and make it better

• Having a higher status than another person.

• Having more access to sweets and games than someone else.

What is wealth ?

• This is stocks and shares and economic savings.

• This is the regular sum of earnings that you have coming in each month.

• This is the money , savings and property that can be bought and sold to generate income?

• This is gold and silver

What is distribution of wealth?

• This is the way that vouchers and cash are given to poor people

• The inheritance that a child gets when a parent passes way

• This is the way that good weather improves a person's life chances

• This is the way that wealth is distributed between people

What are life chances?

• The strata or layer in a stratification system.

• The opportunities that people have to improve their lives

• The chance to get a good education

• The opportunity to eat delicious ice-cream every week.

What is fatalism?

• Believe that God has determined your life.

• The idea that you can shape your life through individual action

• Individual's belief that they cannot control what happens to them.

• The view that it is fine to smoke, because you won't get sick.

What is immediate gratification?

• Studying hard to get your qualifications

• Deciding to choose immediate satisfaction of needs and desires that than planning for a reward in the future.

• Leaving your favourite ice-cream in order to eat it another day.

• Helping your grandparents with a task rather than going out with friends.

What is the welfare state ?

• This is the way which governments try to provide for the less well off and reduce social inequality

• This is the way that wealth is distributed via the pension system

• This when you wake up and feel sick in the morning and need medicine

• This is a delicious healthy breakfast with eggs.

Select the two answers which demonstrate a a large pattern of inequality

• Social security and other state benefits are given to those who fall below a certain income.

• In the UK the top 10 percent get 31 % of all income in the UK while the bottom 10 percent get just 1 %

• In Singapore, the top 20 richest percent of the population are about 10 times richer than the poorest 20 %

• Different countries have the same levels of inequality

What does meritocracy mean?

• A society where individuals achieve rewards based on their own effort and achievement.

• This is the ascribed position a person gets at birth.

• This means the people who are best at Maths.

• This is a society which is governed by those with the most wealth and power.

Which answers relate to the effect of higher life chances? (select all relevant answers)

• Higher social class

• Higher life expectancy

• Higher level of wealth and income

• Working hard in a job you don't enjoy