SOCI 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Inequality, Living Wage, Victimisation
12 Jun 2018
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women and poverty
in 2010, 9.3% females living in poverty in Canada (over 1.5 million in total)
1. women spend more time doing unpaid work it means it leaves less hours in the day for paid
work
2. huge wage difference between male and want females make
the type of work women does can put them at risk,
-they are 70% of part time employees and 2/3 are working at minimum wage
feminization of poverty, women are at a greater disadvantage for poverty. Feminization of
poverty means there is a disproportion distribution of poverty among women
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single mom is best seen from two different groups, and struggle with poverty
1. married at one point, had kids divorced. (way less, maybe educated,
2. Never married, always on her own, raising children
- Get pregnant young, maybe not have finished high school, male presence is not in your
life
Their remains over a third of women led family’s that fall below poverty line
Homelessness: social category that includes anyone who cannot obtain and sustain long-term,
adequate and risk-free helter, for any reason.
Homelessness, best understood of being on a continuum or a pyramid
a) Absolute homelessness- where individuals live on the streets or in a shelter. Few people
in this
b) Hidden or concealed homelessness – people without a place of their own so individuals
live with friends or family or may live in their car (immigrants are found here)
c) Relative homelessness- largest group of people, people who technically have houses, but
the conditions of where they live are highly undesirable or substantial conditions
Its estimated that 200 000 -300 000 Canadians spend their night in shelters, on street or couch
hopping
Aboriginal people in Canada make up less than 4% of the population but are 10% of the
homeless.
Immigrants: - immigrants are increasing expanding the number of individuals who belong in the
ranks of hidden homelessness, discrimination in the work place and a language barrier effect this
and push them to poverty and homelessness.
Race:
- Aboriginal population is overrepresented among the homeless in Canada, they make up
less than 4% of Canada’s total population but represent 10% of the homeless. Among the
aboriginal.
- - a history of disenfranchisement, oppression and colonization has led to disparities in
health care, income and education
Mental illness,
- In the 1960, huge program, deinstitutionalized people who had mental illness,
developmental delayed.
- Best place for individuals like this, was to put them in large scale residences.
- A book came out called normalization. Everyone needs to be treated as if they are normal
and equal
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