Transcript Social Inequality true/false

Inequality is about:GROUPS
POWER
RESOURCES
Who is unequal?
Social Class
Gender
Ethnicity
Age
Disability
Location
How are they unequal?
Income
Housing
Education
Health
Politics
Workplace
Home
Media
Crime
True or False ?
73% of the long-term
unemployed rent their
home from the council.
TRUE
True or False?
The long-term unemployed
spend on average £ 8 more on
fuel and power than
professional people.
TRUE
True or False?
50,000 RACIST INCIDENTS
WERE REPORTED IN UK
SCHOOLS IN 2007
FALSE
It was 100,000
True or False
After a decade in work
male graduates are
earning significantly
more than female
graduates
TRUE
True or False?
The difference in educational
achievement between rich and
poor shrunk under the labour
government
TRUE
But it is still a very significant
divide
True or False?
People in managerial and
professional occupations report
higher levels of ill-health than
people in manual/routine jobs.
FALSE
Manual/routine jobs have most
self-reported health problems
True or False?
There were almost as many
females as males appointed to
FTSE 100 company directorships
in 2007.
FALSE
There were 30 females and 152
males
True or False?
On average females spend more
of their weekly time on
domestic chores than men
And men have more leisure and
rest time.
TRUE in 1997!
But men spend more time than
women in paid work
True or False?
British Muslims are the most
successfully employed ethnic
minority group.
FALSE
They are the most likely to be
employed in low-skill/low-paid
jobs.
True or False?
People over 80 are more likely
to be living in poverty than any
other age group.
True
Gini Index
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV
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The distribution of Wealth
 Objectives:
 To know how wealth is distributed in the UK and
elsewhere?
 To consider reasons for wealth inequalities and the
advantages and disadvantages of possible solutions.
Keywords
Wealth
Income
Inequality
Social Mobility
Welfare
Tax
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGdRM3C_wjc
The Distribution of Wealth
Imagine that the total population of the UK is divided into five empty buckets with
20% of the population in each – they are allocated according to their wealth
How much wealth (as a %) do you think is concentrated in each of those buckets?
The Distribution of Wealth
Imagine that the total population of the UK is divided into five empty buckets with
20% of the population in each – they are allocated according to their wealth
How much wealth (as a %) do you think is concentrated in each of those buckets?
69,994
m 0.7%
486,918m
4.7%
1,172,897m
11.4%
2,201,145m
21.3%
6,398,559m
61.9%
Reasons and Solutions
 What might be the main causes of inequalities in
wealth – brainstorm ideas on your sheets.
 How good are the solutions? Find the advantages
and disadvantages of each of these solutions.
 Reduce tax for everyone
 Tax the rich more
 Increase benefits
 Improve Education
 Other?
Find Reasons and Solutions –
Things to consider
 Why are there
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inequalities in wealth?
Education/skills
Inheritance
Culture
Generous welfare
Greed
Intelligence?
 What could government
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or individuals do to solve
the problem
Tax the rich more
Increase benefits
Provide better education
/training opportunities
Reduce tax
Something more radical?
1. Reasons
Identify causes of wealth inequality and write your ideas below.
2.
Solutions
Education,
Advantages
Disadvantages
intelligence,
inheritance, tax, culture,
greed, over
generous welfare. They have more then they need. Rich have less money to employ
The Govt will have more money to
give to the poor in welfare
people and may seek to avoid tax
or go abroad.
Decrease poverty, more even
distribution of wealth.
Unemployed will be able to help
themselves more.
No incentive for people to work
and improve lives. Tax burden
increases for everyone.
Poorer people will have more
income. Better off people keep
more of their money so spend
more in the economy.
The wealthy will benefit the most
as they pay the most tax already so
they keep more of the wealth.
People will have right skills for jobs
so can earn more
Costs more to the tax payer and it
will not necessarily create jobs for
people
Questions