British segregation
Will there be political effects of the newly documented growth of class segregation in Britain?Where you live can be crucial to your future
"Britain is becoming increasingly segregated across all age groups by wealth, health, education and other factors, according to a pioneering atlas based on people rather than geography. The cradle-to-grave 'atlas of identity', to be published on Monday, provides a visual representation of the stark social contrasts now dividing different areas of Britain, and even adjoining neighbourhoods.
"It shows how the area in which an individual lives can be a strong predictor of their identity not only in terms of class but also health, family structure and likely lifespan. It can even reveal the likelihood that a person is divorced - divorcees are clearly clustered along the south coast, possibly because property there is cheaper and the population is older - and when they are likely to have their first child. Women in the affluent south-east are generally much more likely to be older when they give birth...
"The atlas, which includes sophisticated maps combining an array of factors as well as charting individual features such as the locations in Britain in which children are most likely to go to boarding school, provides a powerful visual interpretation of growing evidence that Britain is becoming a more divided and less socially mobile society...
"...there are now fewer areas where most people are 'average', and instead there is one set of neighbourhoods where most people are advantaged and another set where most are disadvantaged. That division was last seen in Britain in the 1930s, but levelled out as inequalities fell in the postwar years..."
The BBC report on the atlas reemphasizes the rising coincidence of class and geographic cleavages.
Class segregation 'on the rise'
"A UK social atlas suggests that British society is becoming more segregated by class, researchers have said...
"Professor Daniel Dorling, co-author of the report, said: 'Our atlas shows that what is normal changes rapidly as you travel across the social topography of human identity in Britain.
"'Most people think they are average when asked. In most things most are not.'"
The atlas is available from Amazon UK, "usually dispatched within 1 to 4 weeks" for £28.49.
Identity in Britain by Bethan Thomas and Danny Dorling
Labels: civil society, demographics, UK
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