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SOCIOLOGY - Social Inequality [key words]
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- 1Absolute poverty.A situation in which someone lacks the money to pay for the food, clothing and housing necessary to maintain a healthy way of life.
- 2Achieved status.A social position which individuals are able to gain through, for example, hard work and/or educational qualifications.
- 3Ageism.Being prejudiced against people because of their age.
- 4Ascribed status.A position or social standing given to an individual on the basis of inherited characteristics.
- 5Caste.A rigid system of stratification in which an individual cannot move from the caste into which they are born.
- 6Cycle of deprivation.A social process which may lead the children of poor parents to suffer poverty when adults.
- 7Embourgeoisement.The proposition that members of the working class develop middle-class attitudes and patters of behavior as they become more affluent.
- 8Environmental poverty.Deprivation experienced in neighborhoods that are ugly, dirty, unsafe and which lack adequate services and amenities.
- 9Gender discrimination.Treating people unfairly because of their gender.
- 10Glass ceiling.The informal barrier that makes it difficult for women to achieve high-level positions at work.
- 11Income.The money received by an individual in a period of time, for example, wages or interest on savings.
- 12Institutional racism.Occurs when the everyday practices and procedures of an organisation for example the police, lead to discrimination against ethnic groups either intentionally or unintentionally.
- 13Life chances.The changes that section of society have of achieving the things which are valued by their society.
- 14Lifestyle.The way in which members of a group use their resources. Lifestyles will reflect the attitudes of priorities of the group.
- 15Middle class.The section of society composed of people engaged in non-manual work and professional work.
- 16Poverty trap.The particular difficulties that the poor may experience in, for example, finding a job that pays more than is received from benefits.
- 17Proletarianisation.The proposition that many non-manual jobs in a modern economy put their workers in situations very similar to that of the manual factory worker.
- 18Racial discrimination.Treating people unfairly because of their ethnicity.
- 19Racism.Attitudes to and beliefs about race which usually involve negative stereotypes of another race and lead to discrimination against people of that race.
- 20Relative deprivation.Felt when people compare their own situation to that of others whom they believe to be unfairly better off.
- 21Relative 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 their society to be a normal part of life.
- 22Sexism.Being prejudiced against people because of their gender.
- 23Slavery.A form of stratification in which a section of the society has no rights. Individuals in this section of society are items of property which can be bought and sold.
- 24Social exclusion.When people are unable, or feel unable to play a full part in society. This may be owing to the lack of material resources, discrimination by others or a sense that the rest of society neither wants or accepts them.
- 25Subjective class.The class in which an individual places themselves.
- 26Trade union.An organisation established by employees to protect their economic interests.
- 27Underclass.The group of people at the very bottom of the social structure who either by their economic situation or culture, are cut off from the rest of society.
- 28Wealth.The assets owned by an individual (e.g. house, savings, a business).
- 29Working class.The section of society composed of people engaged in manual work.
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