SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Stratification, Meritocracy, Squeegee
7 Mar 2017
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Determines life chances: access to power and resources to control your life. Go to university; stay in abusive relationship: lack of resources increases vulnerability. The growing gap: 3. 8% of households control . 78 trillion (67% of total household wealth, underemployed and well educated. 21% - 35% of poor work full or part time. Minimum waged labour: 20% of recent university graduates earned half national average salary (16,000) What about upward mobility: social stratification not inequality layers not classes, modern society as open: personal success due to ability and achievement society as meritocracy inequality as functional: unequal rewards as motivation for success. On the streets there is no forgetting your body . Public and private ownership: student grants not loans, child tax care benefit for young families failure to tackle poverty facing millions of canadian families will weigh heavily on. Canada"s capacity to sustain economic growth (oecd 2011: poverty is expensive (. 5 billion annually)
