KIN 261 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Victim Blaming, Social Comparison Theory, Infant Mortality
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Lifestyle differences as social markers of status. Most rooted in marxian and weberian approaches o. Product of social relations, relationship to he means of production. Class divisions: fundamental and uniform divides, economically based. Material class: material oppression - welfare of one group depends on material deprivations of another. Class = ses (socioeconomic status) = strata: determined by ranking people according o income, education, occupation (low, medium, high) Top 10% of rich families = 82x more earned by poorest 10% New brunswick gvt: flat tax structure - reduce corporate taxes and income taxes in the highest bracket, lower brackets would pay less tax, lower tax base = social program cuts, make gap between rich and poor worse. Individual"s value of assets minus any debt at a give point in time. Wealth is more unequally distributed than income. Increase in inequality due to rise in house prices, increased savings in financial assets. Highly concentrated among a small group o.
