SOCI 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Poverty In Canada, Blue-Collar Worker, Medical Sociology
31 Mar 2016
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A straiied system with several diferent classes (groups who share access to the same/similar amount of resources/money: upper class/elite, upper-middle class. Lower-middle class: working class (blue collar workers) Lower class (precarious work-uncertain, short term, no protecion) Sociologists divide canadian families into quiniles based on their access to money. Families are split into ive equal groups, each containing 20% of the populaion. Poorest of all families: oten single mothers and immigrants, only make 4% of the total income, and of their income comes from government transfer payments. 4: richest of all families: making 70% of the total income, and only 2. 6% comes from government transfer payments. Note: the division between quiniles 1 and 5 are constantly changing and becoming more noiceable. Quinile 1 is becoming increasingly more poor as the cost of living increases and their income stays the same. Intergeneraional: social class you achieve on your own compared to the social class of your family.
