Sociology 2140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Structural Change, Bourgeoisie, Poverty In Canada
30 Oct 2014
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Max weber"s life chances: the extent to which individuals have access to important societal resources such as food, clothing, healthcare, shelter, and education: he focuses on wealth, power, and prestige as determining of a person"s class positions. Children are the fasted growing group of homeless people in canada 1/7 emergency shelters users is a child: most food bank clients spend more than 30% of their income on housing. In canada, structural poverty is dealt with as an individual problem rather than examining ways to eliminate poverty at a societal level, we offer temporary assistance: more often than not, this assistance is through charity and rarely from the government temporarily funding shelter and food banks. Structural changes in the canadian economy as well as declining government support for lower income people have all contributed to homelessness. citizens through various social policies, programs, standards and regulations.
