Category: Social class, wealth and income inequalities
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How many people are in poverty in the UK?
The easy answer is to say around 22% of the population, roughly 14 million people. The long answer starts with the sentence ‘it depends on how you define and measure poverty’, in which case you get various different statistics on the poverty rate. Statistics on poverty in the UK According to the Social Metrics Foundation,…
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Bank of mum and dad: increasingly important for getting on the property ladder!
Young adults have become increasingly dependent on financial support from their parents to finance their first house purchases. Those without access to parental support (i.e. those with poorer parents) are less likely to be able to get on the property ladder. This is according to the latest research from the Resolution Foundation with examines the…
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The relationship between religion and social class
The relationship between social class and religion is not straightforward: the middle classes are, in general, more likely to attend church, but they are also less likely to believe in God and more likely to be atheists and join both world affirming and world rejecting NRMs. The working classes are less likely to attend church,…
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Bake Off 2018 certainly packs a strong middle class punch…
While there’s a lovely ethnic and gender diversity shine on this year’s Great British Bake Off pie, the social class balance is just way off! I’ve done a rough analysis of this year’s 2018 Bake Off contestants by social class background and compared these to the percentages of people working in different social class occupations…
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400, 000 children in the UK do not have their own bed
400, 000 children live in such extreme poverty that their parents are unable to afford to buy them their own bed. The 400, 000 figure is an estimate made by the charity Buttle UK. The charity calculated the estimated figure of 400, 000 based on a sample of the 10 000 families it helped last year.…
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On Sir David Attenborough and Boaty McBoatface: Reinforcing the Social Class Order?
I can’t help but analyse the launching of the Sir David Attenborough polar ship through a social class lens. The whole affair just seems so terribly middle class: possibly even a ritualistic reinforcing of the social class order and a kick in the teeth for the good ole’ working class, as well as for anyone…
