Inequalities on City Road Essay Example

father was the owner of the shop. His business has changed since the big stores like Tesco or Spar opened a few blocks from him. People tend to go to the big supermarkets to buy everything they need and Mr. Buttwells business suffers from that. He still sales the same things that he did over 40 years ago, but the customers are getting less and less. The opening of big supermarkets like Tesco or Spar creates inequalities in the society. For most of the people it is a positive thing, that a big supermarket opened only a few blocks away. They can easily reach it and buy everything they need without going into several little shops. But for shop owners like Colin Buttwell the opening of Tesco is a bad thing for his business.

The second example that I chose is the Mackintosh Centre. It is a sports centre on the City Road and it is introduced in the Making Social Lives DVD in scene 7. This centre once was farmland but nowadays it is a sports club. John Cooksley, the head coach of the sports centre tells us, that most of the members are not from this area but from areas further away. People from the local area are taking a look at it and because the sports centre is very modern, they think it is a private club which seems to be expensive, but in fact it is not. This fact leads to an imaginary inequality. The local residents are feeling excluded because they think that this sports centre is expensive and that they cannot afford a membership.

Summary

Inequalities

are often related to the unequal access of money to different people like in the two examples above, but inequalities do not have to be related to money. They can for example also be related to mobility or the access to different shops or something like this. If for example somebody who has to use a wheelchair, wants to enter a shop but there are stairs and he has no access to a ramp or an elevator, he is not able to enter this shop. The society is constantly changing and through the changing there are always winner and looser, which leads to further inequalities.

The best example to prove this is Mr. Buttwell the newsagent on City Road. Due to the change of the society, which prefers going into one big supermarket with long opening hours, parking spots directly in front of it and probably even better prices, Mr. Buttwell became a victim of inequalities and the looser of the change. Inequalities can relate to various things and they can be found everywhere. You can not only find them in the City Road in Cardiff, like in the examples, but also in nearly every bigger street all over the world.