SOC 290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Upper Class, Victim Blaming, Child Poverty
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Cbc radio: why can"t we end child poverty in canada? (michael"s essay) link on moodle. Wages are decreasing even though more education is required. Ses status and parents education affected their upbringing. Higher status: engage with their kids, want them to succeed, more opportuni- ties. Lower status: difficult to interact with their children, work hard to provide better for their children. Accustomed to their environment- where they grow up. Figure 3. 4: there"s a division in the past but since 1985 there is an increase, scissor graph occurs. Getting your child involved, tutoring, brain development. Low income families have difficulties doing so: told they don"t work hard enough- victim blaming. Told to keep our personal life as a project . Importance between how much time is spent with kids, what the parents did and how they interacted with their children. High: well-off, children are good, lots of time spent with kids. Upper class family felt more racism in their life.
