• Three common indicators of social advantage and disadvantage (or social inequality): - occupation
- education - income
Inequalities in access to Inequalities in access to employmentemployment
• Non-spatial perspective: education, income and occupation related to the different rewards for different levels of skill and therefore, generate inequalities
• ‘Trapped’ hypothesis: reflects differences in people’s ability to secure a job e.g. migrants/NESB.
• Spatial perspective: considers where a person lives relative to where the jobs are and occupational mobility.
Inequalities in access to housing, education and health-care
• Answer questions:
- 1-3 ‘Understanding the text’ p216
- 1-3 “ “ “ p217
- 1-4 “ “ “ p219
The Contemporary Australian Family
• Read p219-220. What comments can you make about the contemporary Australian family ?
Sydney’s Age Structure and Sydney’s Age Structure and Spatial OutcomesSpatial Outcomes
• Refer to the chloropleth map on ‘Age Structure’ p221. Outline the six age-structure types and determine where they would most likely be found in Sydney