What is minimum wage?
Legal amount of money to be payed per hour
What’s a living wage?
Amount a person needs for basic living. (UK 12 pounds per hour)
What is Mincome?
Cheques family’s would receive every month (little money)
Government wanted to see if Ppl would work if they had guaranteed money
What’s are critical measures of well being ?
Standard of living measures
I.e GDP per capita
What are the good life made up of human capabilities?
Life
Body health
Bodily integrity
Senses, imagination thought
Emotions
Relations with other species
Play
What is social mobility?
People want to improve their position in society
5 types of mobility
-vertical, moving up in society (promotion) or moving down in society (fired)
-horizontal, change in position but retain the same status
-intergenerational: differences between class position and that of children.
-intragenerational: up/down ones lifetime
-structural: how macro changes affect position of individuals
Globalization and inequality what is the global north and south
The global northern hemisphere nations(the wealthiest most powerful): they dominate and control nations in the global south
What is The bottom billion
Have incomes of 1/5 In other countries
Have low life expectancy
What are food desserts
When people have trouble accessing food because of where they live.
2 types of poverty describe
Absolute poverty: measure of whether people need to survive
Relative poverty: measure of resources needed in comparison to the standards of the community
