Social Inequality

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Absolute Poverty
A situation in which someone lack the money to pay for food, clothing and housing necessary to maintain a healthy way of life
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Achieved Status
A social position which individuals are able to gain through for example hard work and of educational qualifications
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Ageism
Being prejudiced against people because of their age
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Ascribed Status
A position or social standing given to an individual on the basis of inherited characteristics
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Caste
A rigid system of stratification in which an individual cannot move from the caste into which they are born
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Cycle of Depravation
A social process which may lead the children of poor parents to suffer poverty when adults
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Embourgeoisement
The propersition that members of the working class develop middle-class attitudes and patterns of behaviour as they become more affluent
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Environmental Poverty
Deprivation experienced in neighborhoods that are ugly, dirty, unsafe and which lack adequete services and amenaties
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Gender Discrimination
Treating. People unfairly because of their gender
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Glass ceiling
The informal barrier that makes it difficult for women to achieve high level positions at work
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Income
The money received by an individual over a period of time
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Institutional racism
Occurs when the everyday practises and procedures of an organisation such as the police,lead to discrimination of ethnic groups either intentionally or unintentially
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Life chances
The chances of a section of society has of achieving the things which are valued by their society
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Lifestyle
The way in which members of group us their resources. Lifestyles will reflect the attitudes and priorities of the group
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Middle Class
The section of society composed of people engaged in non manual work and professional work
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Poverty Trap
The particular difficulties that the poor May experience in, for example, finding a job that pays more than is received from benefits
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Proletariansation
The proposition that man non-manual in a modern economy put their workers in situations very similar to that of the manual factory worker
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Racial Discrimination
Treating people unfairly because of their ethnicity
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Racism
Attitudes to and beliefs about race usually involve negative stereotypes of another race and lead to discrimination against people of that race
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Relative depravation
Felt when people compare their own situation to others whom they believe to be unfairly better of f
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Relative poverty
A situation in which someone cannot afford to possess the kind of things and participate in the kind of activities considered by members of society to be a normal part of life
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Sexism
Being prejudiced against people because of the gender
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Slavery
A form of stratification in which a section of society has no rights. Individuals in this section of society are items of property which can be bought and sold
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Social Exclusion
When people are unable, or feel unable to play a full part in society. This may be owing to the lack of resources, discrimination by others or a sense that the rest of society neither wants nor respects them
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Subjective class
The class in which a an individual places themselves
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Trade union
An organisation established by employees to protect their economic interests
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Underclass
The group of people at the very bottom of the social structure who either by economic situation or culture are cut off from the rest of society
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Wealth
The assets owned by an individual
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Welfare scrounger
An individual who makes no contribution to society and exploits the benefits system claiming as much as they can get away with
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Working class
This section of society composed of people engaged on manual work
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A social position which individuals are able to gain through for example hard work and of educational qualifications

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Achieved Status

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Being prejudiced against people because of their age

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A position or social standing given to an individual on the basis of inherited characteristics

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Card 5

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A rigid system of stratification in which an individual cannot move from the caste into which they are born

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