Unit 4, Section B: Social Inequality - revision sheet 3

2a/3a evidence questions

Tip: Use evidence that you have learned for other units. Some units are particularly useful for demonstrating inequalities, e.g. education, health and family. Knowledge acquired in Unit 4 will also be very useful here, for example the distribution of wealth and rates of poverty amongst different groups. More recent data related to the Coronavirus pandemic in the UK would provide relevant and up to date evidence of social inequalities.

Tip: Make sure that you focus on inequality and not difference in these questions. Below are some examples. Update this table with up to date evidence as it is produced, and always cite the source of your evidence. There are many other writers and sources of evidence that could be included in this table, these are just a few examples. Look for more evidence to add to the table. Some studies are useful for demonstrating more than one dimension of inequality, particularly in education.

Gender Ethnicity Social class Age

Family Legal & GeneralDrydenSpeakman and MarchingtonEdgellDuncombe and MarsdenDelphy and LeonardStankoSclater

Education FrancisMitsos and BrowneStanworthDfESYoungerSewell

Patterns of attainmentGilbornSewellWrightMitsos and BrowneYoudellConnolly

Patterns of attainmentGilchrist, Phillips and RossForsythe and FurlogCallendar and JacksonSullivanReayJeffris

Work and pay Vertical segregationHorizontal segregation (Labour Force Survey)Grimshaw & RuberyDept. of Works and Pensions (DWP)EOC researchBeynon

DWPEthnic minorities taskforce reportJenkinsBlockPlattDrinkwater

CampbellONSDWPBurholt &Wilde [for JRF]ESRC (economic and social research council)

Health The Black ReportCensus dataJRF

Crime & deviance PatternsONSLammy reportMcPhersonHoldawayBowling & Phillips

Glueck and GlueckWalmsley et alSutherlandCroallMacGuireHughes et al

Mac GuireSewell

SociologySociology

Unit 4, Section B: Social Inequality - revision sheet 3

Top mark band descriptors for evidence questions:

AO19-10

Knowledge of the evidence described will be detailed, wide ranging and accurate. Two areas of the specification will be referred to. Appropriate sociological terminology will be used. At least two pieces of appropriate evidence will be offered for each area.

AO29-10

Knowledge of the evidence described will be detailed, wide ranging and accurate. Two areas of the specification will be referred to. Appropriate sociological terminology will be used. At least two pieces of appropriate evidence will be offered for each area. Marks for appropriateness of evidence.

Some key terms and concepts relevant to evidence and essays in Unit 4: Social Inequality

Gender

Triple shift Feminisation of the workplace

Dual burden Patriarchy

Domestic violence Glass ceiling

Segregated conjugal roles Exploitation

Joint conjugal roles Dual labour market

Stereotype Discrimination

Vertical segregation Subordination

Horizontal segregation

Ethnicity

Racism Mortality

Institutional racism Morbidity

Discrimination Cultural capital

Canteen culture Rates of participation

Marginalisation Differential attainment

Stereotype Social exclusion

Labelling Scapegoat

Material deprivation Racialised class fraction

Social class

Social exclusion Cultural capital

Poverty Material deprivation

Marginalisation Morbidity

False consciousness Mortality

Polarisation Unemployment

Class conflict Meritocracy

Market situation Unequal opportunity

Differential attainment

SociologySociology