SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Social Stratification, Social Capital, Human Capital
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Chapter 8 social stratification: canadian and global perspectives. Inequality has many interrelated dimensions including, class, sex, and race. Shipwrecks good example, people become guinea pigs where class does not exist. Everything has its price, money is power. Trade and selling of body parts flourishing especially in india. Poor sell their parts, the rich buy. Poor can t afford the surgery in the us for transplants. Canadian families make greater income now than in 50 s. Families have 2 earners, still prospect to buy a house and not have bank owning most of it is a struggle. Divide people in to groups in class by who earns how much. Equal distribution would be if each group earns 20% Unequal distribution if top group earns 100% Canada a welfare state, takes from the rich gives to the poor robin hood . Income inequality has widened more in other countries than canada.
