Poverty + Social Mobility

absolute poverty

when someone can’t afford basic necessities such as food, clothing and shelter

relative poverty

when someone can’t afford things considered normal by most of society

what is child poverty measured by

• household income

• disposable income of the household

• used to be 60% of median income

• government has now brought in measures of unemployment and educational attainment

intra-generational mobility

within a generation

change in social status over a single lifetime

inter-generational mobility

across generations

changes in social status that occur from the parents to the children’s generation

what 3 ways can social mobility be described as

• long range

• short range

• self recruitment

what is long range

the bottom strata to the top or from the top to the bottom

what is short range

for example, from an unskilled to a skilled manual job

what is self recruitment

where children remain in the same class as their parents

what did Wilkinson and Pickett find about inequality and mobility

countries with the highest rates of income inequality had the lowest rates of social mobility