SOCIOL 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Richard Florida, Human Capital Flight, Creative Class

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 2R03
• Professor: Dr.Lina Samuel

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Lecture 15-16 abandoned spaces poverty & place (nov 17 & nov 21) Shifts in work: deindustrialization and the post-industrial phase. The coming of post-industrial society (daniel bell, 1973) The rise of the creative class (richard florida 2002) Primary sector (agricultural and natural resources) 1. 8% and 2. 1% (krahn, et al. The larger the geographic space, the more likely there will be significant internal variations. Measuring regional inequality: economic measures (income and unemployment) Staples approach: regional differences emerge based on differences in regional endowments of natural resources (corrigall-brown and wien, 325-327). Emerging from regional disparities across the nation, the larger geographic space/region, more likely. The authors look at regional inequality regional inequality in u. s it(cid:495)ll include greater disparities and lack of resources. You can have different regional inequalities in each area across the nation. Income and employment rates are looked at and it varies, it measures all value of all goods and services in that area (income rates, & gdm)