SOC 290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Proletariat, Population Ageing, Canada Pension Plan
Document Summary
January 18th, 2016: class trip to bauer theatre. 21: postponed adulthood: dealing with the new economic inequality. Today: costs of university are more; the cost of borrowing is more. No idea about those who earn less will get more. Grade based scholarships rewards the privileged likely the parents are highly educated. Social adulthood understood as a time you are independent from your par- ents today people are having a more difficult time doing so. Infancy and childhood: kept out of the economy, schooling is important. Old age: life expectancy has been increasing, should not have to work. Myles argues that national planning must acknowledge intergenerational in- equities: plan children/elderly into policies. Relatively few elderly live in poverty because of cpp (canada pension plan), Gis & work or private pension: affluent when compared to their parents, these children of high in- dustrialism, had good lives. Children of post war when canada had huge expansion of the economy.
