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Defining and Measuring Inequality
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About the lecture
In this lecture, we think about ways of defining and measuring inequality, focusing in particular on: (i) social class, including the Registrar General’s Classification (1911), the Socio-Economic Classification (2008), and the Great British Class Survey (2013); (ii) geographical, such as at neighbourhood, regional and international levels; (iii) ethnicity, most notably the BAME classification used in government statistics, and critiques of this; (iv) the idea of intersectionality – that all of these factors interact to shape inequality.
About the lecturer
Professor Clare Bambra is Professor of Public Health at Newcastle University. She is a renowned expert in the field of health inequalities, and she has recently undertaken extensive research into the unequal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, including leading SAGE’s independent report into this. Her recent publications include The Unequal Pandemic: COVID-19 and Health Inequalities (2021, co-author), Health in Hard Times: Austerity and Health Inequalities (2019, editor), and Health Divides: Where You Live Can Kill You (2016).
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Bambra, C. (2022, March 23). Inequality - Defining and Measuring Inequality [Video]. MASSOLIT. https://massolit.io/options/inequality-924ccfd6-b1f4-459e-b6d9-00d6a31bc692?auth=0&lesson=5597&option=5922&type=lesson
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Bambra, C. "Inequality – Defining and Measuring Inequality." MASSOLIT, uploaded by MASSOLIT, 23 Mar 2022, https://massolit.io/options/inequality-924ccfd6-b1f4-459e-b6d9-00d6a31bc692?auth=0&lesson=5597&option=5922&type=lesson