SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dollarama, Conflict Theories, C. Wright Mills
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Fist 4 are more economic and the last 9 are more political and social. Poverty has to be functional or it will seize to exist. Functionalists would say, there are obvious or hidden reasons. Poverty form some sort of function that why it still persists and doesn"t go. In what ways is poverty functional for the rest of society (that aren"t in: the existence of poverty ensures that society"s (cid:498)dirty work(cid:499) will be done. Includes jobs that don"t pay a lot or (cid:498)service(cid:499) the poor, or protect the reset of society from them. For example goods start at loblaw"s and then get kicked down to of economic activities that benefit the affluent. People who are picking up garbage: poverty creates jobs for a number of occupations and professions that serve, the poor buy goods other do not want and thus prolong the economic.
