SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Bourgeoisie, Achieved Status, Meritocracy
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Social class background (educational outcomes, confidence, sense of entitlement) Social inequality (interaction with doctor, things as kids social class backgrounds) Choices are constrained by our social class. Social stratification : the way society is organized in layers or strata. A society"s hierarchical ranking of people into social classes. Social inequality hand in hand with stratification. Social inequality explores the impact of ranking. Social class is determined by all these. It is problematic to make an assumption that somebody with wealth in upper class. Ex. a drug dealer vs a lawyer. How prestige is the job in society. Income (fig 6. 12 - after-tax income , rich taxed heavily so there is money for bottom quintiles - before tax would shown even more inequality) Top gets the most money (gains in their share in all incomes) Wealthy 86 canadians v/s canadian population (to match the 1% of wealthy we would need 11. 4 million canadians)
