[Housing in UK]

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ABSTRACT

In order to understand the reputation of social sciences in our daily lives, amongst the most important issues and concerns that individuals have are in the area of housing. The realm of housing clearly shows the development of family and aims to pertain to highlight the core problems and concerns that individuals face while residing in a society. This paper shall help us understand the social problems that are faced in the United Kingdom and shall help identify tools and techniques to improve the current conditions regarding social housing in the state.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTII

DECLARATIONIII

CHAPTER 02: LITERATURE REVIEW1

Gender & Pay Gap2

Is gender equality legislation becoming counterproductive?4

Structural Functional Theory8

Women and London economy: A case-in-point10

REFERENCES12

CHAPTER 02: LITERATURE REVIEW

There is not, nor can there be, any uniquely defined sociology of housing. The nature of housing as a physical artefact, its spatial distribution and the terms of its occupancy (physical, legal, financial), are affected by social structures and processes. Conversely, these features of housing have social effects. Thus housing may be seen both as a social construct and as socially causative. A wide range of sociological research considers housing in one or other of these contexts. At least five areas of study may be identified.

These include the influence of culture and social divisions (class, gender, and so forth) on housing design and its effects upon the social development. Second, how the distribution of social groups across residential locations is affected by social structures and processes, as for example in studies of urban ecology. Third, how the physical nature of housing and spatial relations between housing units affect patterns of social interaction at the micro-level, that is within and between individual households. Fourth, determinants of housing provision in differently constituted societies (socialist, capitalist, underdeveloped), how these patterns vary cross-nationally and temporally, and the significance of forms of provision for wider social processes (for example, the role of squatter housing in the development of informal economies, political processes, and social movements in Third World cities). Finally, the role of housing in creating or maintaining social divisions or social solidarity, involving (for example) studies of the relationship between housing and class, community, status, gender, race, or forms of consumption (Hyde, 2005, 581).

In order to understand the credibility of housing with reference to sociological context, there are several theories and transcripts that have brought forward for understanding and comprehending the accounts Structural functionalism theory was regarded as the single most focused, praised and highly regard theory in the discipline of sociology until its decline in the ...