Questions about the Wealth & Income poster

What’s on the Wealth & Income poster?

Income against Wealth, side by side. Income: A flow, measured per year; Income: Mostly earnings from work; Income: Progressive tax reaches it directly; Income: Moves with the labour market; Income: Better measured in surveys; Wealth: A stock, held at a point in time; Wealth: Property, pensions, business, shares; Wealth: Passes between generations; Wealth: Far more concentrated than income; Wealth: Badly measured; the top is undersampled; Wealth gaps between groups are typically much larger than income gaps, and close far…. Educational reference. Survey data understates top wealth; estimates using tax and estate records give higher concentration.

Who is the Wealth & Income poster for?

Wealth & Income belongs to the Sociology section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning stratification & inequality can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Wealth & Income poster?

Whenever an inequality claim does not say which of the two it means. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Wealth & Income belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Wealth & Income?

Class Schemes, Cultural Capital at Work and Audit & Correspondence Tests sit alongside Wealth & Income in the Sociology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Class SchemesCultural Capital at WorkAudit & Correspondence Tests

Is the Wealth & Income poster free to download and print?

Yes. Wealth & Income downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Sociology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Wealth & Income poster print at?

Wealth & Income is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Wealth & Income loses nothing.Printing guide