Social Inequality

• What are the social characteristics of a place to do with?

  What people's lives are like, eg overall QoL, access to adequate food supplies
• What are social inequalities?


  The differences in social factors between different groups of people ?
• How can social characteristics & inequalities in places change?


  Due to the effects of changing external flows
• Social inequality- changing external flows- flows of people?


  Regional migration from rural areas to urban areas in poorer countries has changed social characteristics and levels of social inequality
• Social inequality- changing external flows- flows of resources?


  The outward flow of natural resources from poorer countries can change levels of social inequalities

  eg Nigeria- oil- exported worldwide but most wealth generated goes to a few individuals - large numbers of people remain in poverty
• Social inequality- changing external flows- flows of money and investment?


  Gentrification has improved the social characteristics of some places but it can also increase inequality

  • eg NOTTING HILL - once one of most deprived areas in London- now has much lower deprivation levels BUT social inequality between wealthy newcomers and existing poorer residents has increased
• regional migration- within a country