A SOCIAL PROFILE

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The British population is one of the oldest in Europe.

In 1990, the median age in Britain was 36 but it will increase to 41 by 2020.

FACTORS AFFECTING POPULATION

Persistent drift

Baby boom

Britain is also changing ethnically The British were nearly all Anglo- Saxon Black people from Caribbean were recruited to

fill job vacancies during the 1950s.

With a natural rise they have become 5.7 percent of Britain’s population

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Almost half of the society are nuclear family but this is their second marriage; what’s more, they’re with their first children.

The number of the people who live together before marriage increased noticeably, and this figure is increasing day by day.

Moreover, some of them don't need to marry. At the same time, the widows, divorcees,

singles and estrangeds’ number increased.

Currently, very few couples marry for the first time.

Britain has the highest divorce rate in the Europe. Almost half of the marriages result with divorce in

their first five years and, this situation is mostly seemed in poor and young couples.

Some women wanted to live alone because they wanted to build their career and improve themselves. They were also alienated from marrying because of duties of women in the marriage.

Almost half of the children witness the divorce of their parents when they are very little.

Day by day, the number of illegitimate births increased. They’re called as ‘’non-marital’’ births because of changing society attitudes.

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KÖSEKÖSE

Class % of

households

A Upper middle class (senior civil servants, professional, 3 senior management and finance)

B Middle class (middle managerial) 16

C1 Lower middle class (junior managerial/clerical,

26 non-manual workers)

C2 Skilled working class 26

D Semi-skilled/Unskilled working class 17

E Residual (dependent on state benefit,

13 unemployed, occasional part-time)

1911 > 3/4 employed > manual workers1950 > 2/4

Since then > fallen to 40%

Extended FamilyExtended Family

Mobility

‘If John Major wants a classless society, then he’ll have to abolish the public school sector. We can’t have equal

opportunities with two different sectors.’

‘ ‘ You feel different from You feel different from them. It’s not equal. They them. It’s not equal. They start on a different level.’start on a different level.’

Top 1 per cent of wealth Top 1 per cent of wealth holders probably own holders probably own

about one-quarter of the about one-quarter of the nation’s health.nation’s health.

Young men of élite Young men of élite ->-> The Civil The Civil Service, the law, the Service, the law, the

medicine…medicine…

Merchant banksMerchant banks

AccountancyAccountancy

ManagementManagement

Since 1964 opinion polls

**Rate of random

people views

1964 : 48% 1964 : 48%

1995 : 81%1995 : 81%

Even though the considerable change

in social attitudes since 1945, and

particularly since the feminist revolution which began in the 1960s, equality has yet to be achieved.

Margaret THATCHER

only ever had one other

female Cabinet minister,

who lasted for less than a

year.

On election, Tony Blair appointed five women to his 22-member cabinet, an indication of the substantial change not only in

representation but also in attitudes.

Pauline Clare is the first woman ever was appointed as a police Chief Constable.

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YOUNG PEOPLE

A reversal of previous inequality is emerging among younger people.

Fifty per cent of girls achieve the top three grades of the secondary education examination, compared with only 40 per cent of boys.

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Manual work, in which physical talent was important, notably mining, steel production, heavy engineering, has declined. Since 1980 over two million male jobs have been lost.

Britain has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in Europe.

Young people want to have traditional values like preferring the idea of marriage and family stability to partnerships.

ETHNIC MINORITIESThe ethnic minority communities in Britain comprise 5.7 per cent of total population but are likely to rise to about 7 percent in the early years of the twenty-first century, on account of their high birth rate.

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During the 1960s and 1970s a large number of people came from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

These immigrants soon discovered that they were the target of discrimination in class and status. People of Afro-

Caribbean and Asian origin have generally had the worst-paid jobs, lived in the

worst housing and encountered hostility

from white neighbours.

Since the mid-1960s the government has introduced three race relations acts in order to eliminate racial discrimination. But laws were also introduced to restrict immigration, which seemed particularly aimed at thwarting non-white immigrants.

Ethnic minority communities in Britain Indian 840 000 Caribbean 500 000 Pakistan 477 000 Black African 212 000 Bangladeshi 163 000 Chinese 157 000

Immiagration is a problem rather than an asset. Margaret Thatcher, for example promised that a Conservetive government would "finally see an end to immigration" and spoke of fears of white Britons that they might be "swapmed by people with a diferent culture". Altough she failed, her government increased the restrictions on immigration and ended the automatic right of anyone born in Britain citizenship.

Many precautions have been taken, but ethnic seperation has been continued. Afro- Caribbeans and Asians experience many kinds of disvantage. They find greater difficulty getting a job.

Immigrants also tend to receive the worst housing.

Difficulties for children from ethnic minorities begin when they go to school. Many members of the ethnic minorities live in deprived inner-city areas where the quality of schools is worse than elsewhere.

The ethnic minority communities feel that they also face hostility from autorities.

Discrimation or at least a failure to involve the ethnic minority groups adequately is apparent in many institutions.

In some places tyhe barriers have In some places tyhe barriers have begun to be broken down, but it begun to be broken down, but it

has required determination.has required determination.