The Rich, The Poor and the Trash
Summary of a documentary on global inequalities and waste
Global Development
poverty
inequality, Sociology key terms
Is poverty a social problem in the UK?
Is poverty a social problem in the UK today?
Social class, wealth and income inequalities
Displacing the Poor from London (and its relevance to critical victimology)
Local Councils in London are increasingly resorting to moving poor homeless families out of London, because they can’t afford to
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
Who is Poor in the UK?
22% of the UK population, or 13.9 million people live in poverty in the UK (2016). Poverty rates are higher for lone parent households (46%), disabled households (34), and rates also vary significantly by ethnicity (e.g. the Bangladeshi poverty rate = 50%).
UK Poverty Trends 1996 – 2017
How do we explain the long term decline in UK Poverty rate, and its more recent increase?
Social class, wealth and income inequalities
Social Mobility: Start Poor, Stay Poor?
In July 2016 Theresa May gave a speech on the steps of Downing Street in which she proposed to build
Marxism, Sociology on TV
Rich House, Poor House – Spreading the Myth of Meritocracy
In this Channel 5 series, one family in the ‘wealthiest 10%’ of Britain swap lives for a week with a
Book summaries
The End of Development?
A summary of The End of Development: A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity, by Andrew Brooks (2017) This blog
Global Development, Theories of development
The End of Poverty? A Documentary taking a ‘Dependency Theory’ View of Underdevelopment and Development
This 2008 Documentary seeks to answer the question of why there is still so much poverty in the world when