Social inequality

• Social inequality is differences based on factors such as age ethnicity gender religion education and wealth exist in all societies
• Spatial inequality is how social inequality varies from place to place
• Standard of living refers to access to needs such as food water and housing but quality of life refers to desires and social and physiological and physical neede
• Higher income can improve standard of living but reduce quality of life because of not being with family due to work
• Poverty refers to not having enough to support a decent standard of living but derivation refers to general lack of resources and differences between groups
• Uk uses index Of multiple deprivation which uses health and crime and income, employment, education and living environment
• Relative poverty is 60% of median income
• gini coefficient measures income inequality between countries with lower scores showing more equal income
• Uk GINI has increased from 0.25 to 0.34 showing more income inequality
• HDI is A composite measure of development based on income life expectancy at birth education
• Inequality can be measured through education income housing healthcare and employment
• Absolute poverty is 2.15 a day meaninf below this a person cannot afford the minimum