Inequalities On City Road

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Drawing on what you have learned from the Making Social Lives DVD and Learning Companion 1, describe some inequalities on City Road. Inequality what does it mean ? There are several kinds of inequality they range from class, gender ,ethnicity/race to age and health/disability. It can also refer to the unequal distribution of valued resources with in a society or between societies.(Learning Companion 1 page 24) City Road is nearly a mile long and started as a country lane over 200yrs ago and has changed over the years from small businesses, tradesmen to car show rooms of the 60’s and to today it’s one of the busiest and diverse streets in Cardiff made up of mainly take-aways and restaurants and shops aimed at the local ethnic and student…show more content…
Over the years the club has been on City Road, they have found it hard to cope with the changes to their community, the users of the club have seen less people using it, and it has gone from being a social centre with darts, crib and other games being played , now only the skittles teams remain. And that people don’t use the club anymore. This could be to do with the changes in the area from the closure of industry to the influx of new people/cultures from other parts of the world moving in. They also comment on how rough the road has got and that they feel unsafe walking down it at night, One patron reveals that when his daughter visits she takes a taxi the 300 meters to his house because she feels unsafe walking down the road.(Making Social Lives DVD scene 5).The members of the club have a nostalgia for the past but it is often an imagined past, which is often its self the site for inequalities and differences. But P.C Bob Keohane, a local police officer, says it’s not a bad area and you can walk down the road day or night and that the average crime is shoplifting with the odd fight with drunken people in the take-aways late at night and as long as you apply common sense, you won’t become a victim of crime.( Making Social lives DVD scene 6).Which shows that the members of the club may have a perception of crime that may not actually be
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