SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Universal Health Care, Canadian Labour Congress, Capital Flight

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1002
• Professor: Tonya Davidson

Document Summary

Class: inequality among groups of people based on the distribution of material resources and social capital. Social inequality: unequal distribution of valued resources, rewards and positions in a society. Social stratification: refers to an institutionalized system of social inequality. Social mobility: the ability to change positions within a social stratisfaction system. Integrational mobility: explains a difference in social class between different generations of a family. Intragenerational mobility: describes a difference in social class between different members of the same generation. Wealth: (cid:1012)6 people (cid:894)(cid:1004). (cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1006)%(cid:895) i(cid:374) ca(cid:374)ada = sa(cid:373)e (cid:449)ealth as (cid:1007)6% of ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374) populatio(cid:374) s(cid:373)all g(cid:396)oup. The (cid:862)old gua(cid:396)d(cid:863), the (cid:862)old esta(cid:271)lish(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) (cid:894)the gap (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) (cid:396)i(cid:272)h a(cid:374)d poo(cid:396)(cid:895) |(cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1006)(cid:1004) o(cid:272)kefelle(cid:396) (cid:449)as (cid:396)i(cid:272)hest man 7k times what the average american made, funded rockefeller centre 2008 top hedge funders made 24k times what the average made. Ideological power- ability to produce image we take for granted as good and power.