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How does education affect life chances? |
students at independent schools or grammar schools often get better GCSE and A level grades. This dramatically increases chances of going to uni and successful employment opportunities. |
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How does income affect your life chances? |
a child from a low income home is less likely to get the resources they need to do well at school and fewer opportunities to to take part in extracurricular activities. |
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How does health affect your life chances? |
some peoples access to health care varies dependent on where they live (services in urban areas can sometimes become oversubscribed) |
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How does gender affect you life chances? |
Life expectancy of a woman is higher. the average salary for women is still significantly lower than males. women are also often restricted to to part-time and lower paid jobs because of expectations around childcare. |
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How does social class affect your life chances? |
children of parents from higher classes are more likely to end up in higher classes themselves. research by Joseph Rowntree Foundation this remains the same even with educational achievementis taken into account |
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how does age affect your life chances? |
average life expectancy is increasing which means there are more elderly people. As income is likely to come from pensions or savings, many elderly people live on low incomes and are reliant on the government to protect their standard of living Youth is valued more than experience and life skills so elderly are often overlooked in employment. Elderly people more likely to need health care services |
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how does disability affect your life chances? |
disabled people are less likely to be in full-time education, employment or training. they also earn less with the same qualifications and training. |
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how does sexuality affect your life chances? |
lgbtq+people face significant barriers to life chances. homophobic discrimination is often very personalized discrimination carried out on often young people. |
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how does ethnicity affect your life chances? |
issue of ethnicity and life chances is complex. minority ethnic groups may have been disadvantage financially due to migration, but some ethnic groups experience greater social mobility than their white counterparts which is thought to be due to educational achievement. |
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What are the causes of poverty? |
structural model- causes are beyond control of the individual. poverty is due to societies reluctance to help solve the problem. Individual behavior model- model recognises where people lives does affect levels of poverty but argues that the individuals themselves are the cause of poverty and the solution |
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What are the consequences of poverty? |
poor, damp overcrowded housing lack of security poor health poor diet disease from poor housing. |
