Higher Modern Studies: Social Issues in the UK, Second Edition
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Language
English
ISBN
9781510460942
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Section 1 Social inequality in the UK
1 Evidence and causes of social inequality
Poverty
Social exclusion
Social class
Social inequality
Poverty and social class in the age of austerity
2 The impact of social inequality
The elderly
Child poverty
‘Working poor’ families
Unemployed young adults
3 Government responses to social inequality
The Welfare State
Government action on wealth inequalities
The Welfare Revolution
Benefits: universal or means-tested?
4 Social inequality and health
Geographic inequalities
Official reports on health inequalities
The ‘biology of poverty’
Lifestyle issues
Gender inequalities
Ethnicity and health
Government responses to health inequalities
The role of the private sector within the NHS
Improved health
5 Social inequality: gender and ethnicity
Women in a changing society
Ethnic minorities
Attempts to tackle inequalities
Section 2 Crime and the law in the UK
6 The Scottish criminal justice system
Legal rights and overview of the judicial system
The court system in Scotland
Protection of citizen’s rights
7 Theories and causes of crime
Sociological explanations
Biological explanations
Other reasons
8 Impact of crime on society
Personal impact
Impact on the offender
Impact on the community
Economic impact
Political impact
9 The penal system – responses to crime
Aims of the system
Overcrowding in prisons
The Scottish prison population
Female prisoners
The politics of prisons
Are alternatives to prison the way forward?
Youth offenders
Section 3 Assessment
10 Assessment
Higher course assessment
The question papers
The assignment
Research methods
Qualitative and quantitative research
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