SOCI-102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Stratification, Equal Voice, Meritocracy
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Chapter 2: poverty and economic inequality in canadian context. Even wealthy people pay into ei, insurance, and pay for crime (crime raises with increased poverty), institutions intervene/political. Less likely that democracy will actually be democratic: superficial democracy. The rich bypass public services such as healthcare, transport etc. making all of these. Environmental effects: wealthy people do more damage in general. Inequality erodes democracy and the values of equal voice; also less sense of social. Concentration of income in small pockets goes against canadian ideals. Failure of the american dream: the values of meritocracy fails, some people work hard. Feminism: women more likely to be single parents raising children in poverty. Inequality makes social problems worse (ex accelerates them (inequality results inlow context, most people value thriving/equality; Define social problem and how to tell it is a social problem. Violence and poverty and inequality (explain how they are social problems) Sociological imagination-define it and relevance and importance, passage analysis.
