SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Paris Hilton, Upper Class, Justin Trudeau

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1105
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Race and ethnicity remain important determinants of social position. Higher average incomes for japanese, british and french vs. chinese, black, and. Quebecois and first nations have the lowest income among selected categories. (there some certain guidelines for sentences in the criminal law code, and we keep statistics of them), aboriginal and everyone else. Gender: women earn less income, accumulate less wealth, and have lower occupational prestige than men. Among single-parent families, those headed by women are more than twice as likely to be poor than those headed by men. 40% of married couples, women make more money than the man. Should take about 170 years before equity actually takes place. Difference in pay happens mostly in the private sector and not public. Sociologists acknowledge social inequality, but do not agree on how to define this hierarchy. Defining classes in canada is difficult owing to the relatively low level of status consistency.