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•Welcome Back!
STRUCTURE OF THE GCSE COURSE
Unit 2
(paper 2)
Unit 1
(paper 1)
Understanding Social
Processes
Understanding Social
Structures
Compulsory Core
Compulsory Core
Extended writing: Mass
Media
Extended writing: Crime
and Deviance
(50%)
(50%)
• Students will:
• Explain the term inequality
• Explain the link between income
inequality and social problems
•Is the world a fair
place?
Talk to your neighbour and explain why you
made those choices…
Discussion as whole group – is there a
general theme?
Inequality is about the differences between rich and poor. This can
be in terms of:
• Wealth
• Pay
• Status
• Health
• Jobs
• Houses
• Opportunities
• Life style
• The way that people live including their job, car, clothes, health
and leisure activities
• Sociologists call these differences ‘life chances’. Life chances are
a key aspect in studying inequality. Life chances are about
opportunities of enjoying good things in life and avoiding the
bad.
• Sociologist Max
Weber – wrote
about life
chances
•DISCRIMINATION!
•An action for or against
someone often because of
a prejudice
AGE
CLASS
EXAMPLES OF SOCIAL INEQUALITIES
GENDER
DISABILITY
ETHNICITY
• Where you are born in a society strongly
influences where you end up
• Inequality isn’t just the results of
individual differences it is also social in
nature
• Social inequality exists in all known
societies
• Social Inequality is the core theme of
this unit
Wealth
The amount of possessions that a person
has. This may include money, property and
other possessions, e.g. car, savings, house.
Income
The money that is received weekly or
monthly as wages, benefits or pension.
• Watch the clip and consider the impact that
inequality has on society
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BN7ml6be4
•Exam practice
• Inequality weakens community life, reduces trust
and increases violence. Community, social
cohesion and solidarity are important for health
and well being.
• Greater inequality is likely to be accompanied by
increased status competition and status anxiety.
What would life in the UK
be like if we had a
perfectly equal society?