SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Class Discrimination, Visible Minority, Heteronormativity

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100
• Professor: Anne Winkler

Document Summary

Absolute poverty; people lack basic necessities of life including food, clothing and shelter. Relative poverty; people are poor relative to the average canadian. Set at the point where a family spends on average at least 20 percentage points more of its. The low income measure; income than the average family on food, clothing and shelter. 50% of the median income of all canadians (adjusted for by where you live and how many children there are in the family). Globally, women are heavily represented among the poor. especially single parent or. Wage inequality remains prevalent in canada even through pay equity and human rights unattached seniors. legislation exists. Roughly 30% live on low income not gender specific (men and women), women 32. 5% and. Higher rate of poverty than the canadian average. living/health conditions. Contributing factors include; unemployment, geographic isolation, low education rates, Ignores long history of colonialism and cultured oppression. Make up 66% of racialized persons living in poverty.