3.1 Inequalities and interconnections
In the previous section, you considered the relationship between inequalities and interconnections.
These are two important ideas in the social sciences, because once you are introduced to them, you might find that you begin to notice them in many places. Thinking about the social world in terms of inequality and interconnection can help you to see things in a new way.
Activity 2 asks you to watch a video, and to then consider some of the ways that the ideas of inequalities and interconnections can be observed in the videos. While doing this activity, see if you can think of ways that inequality and interconnection are present, but which are not mentioned in the below activity.
Activity 2: Observing inequalities and interconnections
Timing: 30 minutes
Start by watching Video 2:
Download this video clip.Video player: Video 2 Living in a moving world
Transcript: Video 2 Living in a moving world
Lovely.
Thank you.
Song Las cuatro de la madrugada El chafer esta UN poco tarde yo cutivo palta lucuma chirimoya Y manzana viajo a la vio feria de Mira Flores.
Today I’m making the journey to see my mother-in-law.
I go and see her three days a week.
I take public transport.
I take the bus.
I’m not good at standing in a queue because I’ve got arthritis and I get awful pain.
If I’ve been standing for a long time and sometimes actually in the bus stops, you know, the benches are full, there’s people sitting there and you can’t get a seat.
A bike bus is something that I started with some friends and neighbours 4 years ago.
It’s a way of getting our kids to school on bikes on roads that they otherwise wouldn’t cycle on.
But it’s also a way of us, like I say, gently protesting.
Our roads are not safe and we don’t have enough cycling infrastructure for kids to cycle to school.
When I say bike, you say.
I’m Amanda and I’m joined in the back by my dog Chris.
I’m driving from my home in Barnsley to get to the Meadowhall train station in Sheffield and then from there we’re going to be taking a train to Manchester.
I go to work in Manchester twice a week.
I’ve grown up learning the importance of being able to give to the community, so I’ve been donating blood since I was 17.
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Our core business is growing and exporting of flowers, Growberry, we export roughly 44 million terms a year.
The area that we live in, it’s very urban.
We have to get through lots of streets that a lot of space is given up to parked cars on both sides and they’re really narrow streets.
There’s quite a number of schools in the area, so the foot traffic on the pavements is really high.
There’s not enough space given to people to cycle.
If we get segregated cycle lanes, great.
Kids can cycle to school on their own or safely with their families.
We often say the bike bus shouldn’t have to exist, but we love the bike bus and we love the community and we love the joy and the fun and the music and the this thing that we’ve grown.
So I would desperately miss the bike bus if it wasn’t in my life.
Hi there.
You’re going to join us.
How you doing?
I, I live in Nairobi.
I am a professional team building facilitator.
The reason we’re making this journey is we have number of young people who lives and work in Nairobi and they decided they’re going to come to Mombasa so that they can take time off and unwind.
The train has three departures each day.
Today I’m getting the 759 service and I cannot afford to miss it.
The trains are once an hour and if I miss that, that impacts the whole of the rest of my day.
I always leave early because I need to be prepared.
I need to allow time for everything.
You’ll see everyone else is just jumping out their cars and heading to the platform where I’ve got so many things that I need to get put into place.
Estamos entrendo alasia de Lima estamos cusando cerco para de Gara a la via feria de era Flores emos yerao poquito tarde Los avenizasore estan que migiamo.
Here we go trying to get past the car right everyone?
I’ve probably had about 35 kids on the bike bus today.
That is the norm at the moment, especially when the weather is good.
So we’ve got everyone into school safely, Bikes and bike sheds.
Kids are all in the door safely and buzzing and ready for the day.
Song alaciete de la manana estamos UN poco tarde pero novos aponer a trabajar de in mediato ciero cuperar El tiempo perdido.
Morning and the music hole, please.
Lovely.
Thank you.
No acido on grandia ojala en la biaferia de manana novaya mejor.
Video 2 Living in a moving world
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For this activity, read about the characters and their journeys that you saw in Video 2 to reveal the ways that inequalities or interconnections can be observed in their stories:
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