Inequalities in Society - case study of two families.

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Stephanie cooper

Unit 19- Applied Sociological Perspectives for Health and Social Care

M1- Discuss the impact of social Inequalities on groups in society

Social inequalities has an impact on your physical, intellectual, emotional, social (PIES) development, this can be shown and proven by analysing the two different family case studies below.

By just reading both families lifestyles I can see that family one will have more negative impact on their PIES development than family two.

Family one’s physical develop may be hindered in many ways as their flat is damp, over time family one may develop respiratory issues. I believe that this family doesn’t have a good status of health, this will have a massive effect on their physical development, if they don’t have a good health they are more likely to develop diseases and illnesses more often that a person with a good status of health. With them living on the second floor the children will not be able to run around in the garden. A positive of living on the second floor, they have to walk up stairs to get to their flat, by walking up the stairs they will get a small amount of exercise. As Lisa is frightened of using too much heating in case she cannot afford to pay the electric bills, will have an impact on the family’s physical development, the flat may be really cold but she won’t turn the heating on. The children may become really ill and get phenomena or really bad colds. Being afraid of putting the heating on will hinder their social development as they will not want to invite people around to their flat as it will be cold.

Lisa’s husband has recently left; this will have a big impact on the children as they will be emotionally upset to add to the emotional upset of the children Lisa doesn’t know where her husband is living so she is stressed.

As Lisa is now a lone parent her children will suffer emotionally as they don’t have a father figure to look up to. The boys don’t have a male role model to look up to and they may not know how to act around men when they are older, as they are used to just having their mum ...

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As they live on the second floor of the flats, all of the family will not get the social development and interaction they need to develop. The children will not want to bring any friends over from school as they live in a flat and flat isn’t very spacious as it only has 2 bedrooms, meaning that the boys are having to share a bedroom. This will also have an impact on the social development as tom will not be able to have friends over to play at a night time as Sam will be asleep. Another reason they will suffer socially is that the only income Lisa has is from state benefits, so she will not be able to afford to take the children to clubs and meet new people.

With Lisa only getting money from benefits, she may not be able to afford good quality products and meals to eat. This will have a massive impact on the physical development of the children. If the children are getting poor quality meals they will not be getting the right amount and the right nutritional intake needed for development.

Compared to family one, family two are more financially secure due to Paul, the father being an accountant; this has a big impact on the social development of the family as they will be able to afford to go to clubs and events where they will be able to socialise with others. Also it will have an impact on their physical development as before I said they will be able to go to clubs such as sports clubs to stay physically active. Being financially secure means they will be able to afford to buy food that has the correct nutritional count for the family.

Felicity and Paul are in a long- term happy relationship; this will have a massive impact on all of their emotional and social development, emotional development will be good as all of them will feel secure and happy. This will also impact on their social life as they will have friends of both sex and the children will be happy to go to their friends houses and be happy and secure, also the children will enjoy having their friends over to their house, as Felicity and Paul are happy in their relationship and will not argue and make the children embarrassed to have their friends over.

Compared to family one, who cannot afford electricity bills never mind going on holiday, family two enjoy regular holidays and they will have a high social development, as when they go on holiday they will be able to meet new people and be able to socialise. As they have a stimulating social life, they will witness many different emotions, as they will be close to people and will see their emotions change in different situations. Also having a stimulating social life will have an impact on their social development and on their intellectual development, they will learn a lot from their friends and will find new thing out off of them.

Before I stated that Paul, the father, is in a secure job as an accountant, this will have a massive impact on the children’s intellectual development as the knowledge that Paul has, he will share it with his children.

As family two has a four bedroom house with a large garden they have the space to run around and that will help with their physical fitness. They will have a less of a chance of being obese and developing immune system deficiencies. Also having a big garden means they will be able to have friends over and develop social skills.

After evaluating both families I can see that family one has a poorer quality of life than family two. Compared to family one, family two are going to have more of a fulfilling life as they have a secure family, they have regular income from jobs, they life in their own house with a garden and have money to go on holidays.

Having a pooper quality of life

D1-Evaluate the impact of social inequalities in society