SOC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Inequality, Child Poverty, Class Discrimination
13 Oct 2018
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Chapter 3: social inequality, toronto is being called canada"s inequality capital toronto"s gap between the rich and the poor is growing at a faster rate than any other major canadian city, between 1980 and 2015. The income gap among toronto households grew by 31% more than double the national pace of 14% In toronto the opportunity equation is no longer accurate. Defined as: where success equals hard work plus access to opportunity. Unicef report 2016: child poverty rates canada ranked 26th out of 35 industrialized countries. The gap between the rich and poor in canada continues to grow. Division of people into categories or strata that are rewarded unequally in terms of power, property, and prestige. Social class any group of people who share the same situations in a common social structure: classism. The systemic oppression of subordinate classes by dominant class groups in order to gain advantage and strengthen their own positions.
