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Component 3: Power and Stratification (Section A)
Quick questions on Age, disability and life chances - Eduqas A-Level Sociology Power and Stratification
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What is age inequality?Show answer
Age inequality affects both ends of the range:
What is intersectionality?Show answer
The most important idea is intersectionality: the forms of inequality do not act separately but intersect. A person's life chances reflect the combination of their class, gender, ethnicity, age and disability, and the dimensions can reinforce one another (for example an older, working-class, disabled woman from a minority ethnic group faces overlapping disadvantages). Class in particular tends to run through all the other dimensions. Most sociologists therefore treat inequality as multi-dimensional, using Weber's flexibility and feminist and other insights to capture how the dimensions combine.
What is q1?Show answer
Explain what is meant by 'ageism'. [6 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Analyse two ways in which the social model of disability differs from the medical model. [12 marks]
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