The UK has a far higher level of income inequality than most developed countries.

Between 1997 and 2007, the gap between rich and poor widened to the greatest since records began.

Which sociologists found that poverty brought a whole host of socioeconomic disadvantages?

Which of these is NOT a typical feature of socioeconomic disadvantage?

In 2012, the richest 20% of UK society earned 40% of the income.

Jeff Bezos, the richest man on the planet is CEO of which company?

Wealth is what you earn, income is your net worth.

Which of these is NOT a source of wealth?

Income and wealth are strongly correlated.

Having a high income does not mean that you are wealthy.

Wealth is the number of days you can survive without having to physically go to work and still maintain your WHAT?

Select the correct answer. Students from working class backgrounds are more likely to....

According to the Sutton Trust in 2015, over 50% of the Cabinet are privately educated.

However, the Sutton Trust also found that there were no significant differences in GCSE results of working class and middle class students.

Privately educated graduates get bigger pay rises than state school graduates when they progress to working life.

What did government stats and the OECD show in 2015?

The number of people from poor families going to university in 2015 has fallen compared to the 1990s.

Only 3% of the richest 20% in society have fathers with no qualifications.

Which is the only country in Europe with lower social mobility (therefore greater inequality) than the UK?

Which British city has the highest life expectancy gap in the UK?

Which of these is NOT an illness that especially afflicts the working class before retirement, acc to Wilkinson & Pickett?

In London, there is a 25% life expectancy gap between rich and poor.

Which one of these is NOT one of the four main influences on individual health?

Which of the below is NOT a leading factor in health inequalities?

Poverty is the common denominator in all health inequality factors.

There is no longer a north-south divide in terms of inequalities of healthcare.

Asian people are more prone to mental health issues and African-Caribbean people more prone to heart disease.

Racism and discrimination are key factors in health inequalities between white people and BAME people.

Poor WHAT leads to poor educational, employment and housing opportunities?

Which of these are the 3 main contributory factors to gender based health inequalities? (tick 3)

What was the 1980 report called that spoke of the growing health gap between social classes?

The Jones Report of 1998 suggested banning sweets and fizzy drinks in schools.

Which two of these are the two major approaches to tackling health inequalities (tick two)?

The collectivist approach is based on the view that health inequalities are the result of how people choose to lead their lives.

Subscribers to the collectivist approach believe that improvements to health inequalities will only come via...

Both the Black Report (1980) and the Acheson Report (1998) recommended government action to combat serious health inequalities.

The Labour government in the 80s and early 90s focused on advertising campaigns as part of their individualist approach to solving healthcare inequalities.

Conservative governments favour collective approaches to health inequalities, while Labour governments favour the individualist approach.

What percentage of the health & social care workforce is made up of women?

What phrase refers to the domination of certain employment sectors by male or female workers?

Men are usually found in

Acc to sociology textbooks, men are ten times more likely than women to...

Vertical segregation means that males and females dominate different levels of jobs in terms of status, skill and pay.

The way in which women with minority identities might experience further barriers to promotion at work is known as...

The way in which women are disproportionality employed in part time, temporary and casual jobs was labelled what by the Fawcett Society?

Which of the below is NOT a factor behind the so-called 'feminisation of poverty'?

According to Bernard, marriage makes women sick because...

The Hidden Curriculum is responsible for low social mobility of women compared to men.

According to the TUC (Trade Union Congress), women work for free for two months a year compared to men (2020 figures).

Who are overrepresented in low-skilled, low paid and insecure service sector jobs?

Where do 1 in 8 tax drivers come from in the UK?

Which ethnic minorities are most likely to have white-collar middle class jobs?

Pakistani Muslims are the ethnic-religious group receiving the lowest incomes of all.

Research by the JRF in 2007 found that 20% of ethnic minority communities in the UK live in poverty, double the rate of white people.

Who is 7 times more likely to be unemployed than white male graduates?

Who observed that 70% of all people from ethnic minorities in the UK live in the 88 most deprived local authorities?

Infant mortality rates among Pakistani and Caribbean communities were twice as high as those of white babies born in 2005.

Who is three times more likely to be excluded from school than white pupils?

More than half of children from Asian families are eligible for what?

Acc to Bradley, what is the neglected dimension of inequality?

Fuel poverty is a major cause of unnecessary death among middle-aged people.

Who pointed out that a large number of elderly people are actually quite well off?

Who stated that ageism has becoming institutionalised in UK society?

Carrier & Pigeon argue that the mass media presents old age in a negative light.

Ray et al. say that older people are often infantilised and disrespected by the media.

Ageism is not only about the elderly, it also includes discrimination against young people.

Children of poor families usually have higher birth weights due to maternal obesity being more prevalent among the lower classes.

What was nearly half a million in 2015 in the UK?

Which one of the below is NOT a model of disability?

What does the WHO (World Health Organisation) recommend learning disabilities are known as?

The individual model of disability is an academic version of the medical model of disability.

The social model of disability focuses on abnormality, disease and individual tragedy.

The Peers Attitude to the Handicapped Scale measures the attitudes of adults towards children with disabilities.

Which of the below is NOT a perception of people with disabilities, according to Nario-Redmond (2010)?

The social approach to disability is about the structural and environmental barriers that all people face in society.

The assumption that a person's disability applies to their whole being is known as?

What was the Barbie doll in a wheelchair that was too big for her house called?

The cultural model of disability states that disability is not a clear cut category but depends on how each person understands 'ability'.

What is the toy company called that manufactures toys with disabilities?

The Hope-Goldthorpe scale consists of 3 main occupational classes, subdivided into 7 categories.

The Great British Class Survey differed from others of its type because it took account of Bourdieu's idea of cultural capital as well.

Which sociologist defined the term 'life chances'?

Which of these is not one of Weber's life chances?

What does the FRS stand for?

In 2013, Adele earned 1000x more than the average UK worker.

What is the measurement of the distribution of income among a nation's residents?

Atkinson revealed in 2013 that an increasing proportion of national income comes from inherited wealth.

There is a clear ascending relationship between social class and ownership of wealth.

Which Marxist said that false class consciousness blinds poor people to their social plights?

What does HBAI stand for?

Absolute poverty is a lack of basic essentials needed to survive physically, including food, clothing, housing and fuel.

Relative poverty is about having a income lower than the majority of people, so that a normal lifestyle is not possible.

What is the measure of poverty called which is based on agreed definitions of poverty?

SMCPC stands for the Social Mobility & Child Poverty Committee

Who said the family is an aid to capitalism?

Butler, Modood, Ghuman and Johal all write about ethnic minorities.

Waters said that British identity is in decline because of....

Stanko said that an incident of domestic abuse is reported to the police every minute in the UK.

Ansley & Feeley are liberal feminists.