SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ascribed Status, Class Discrimination, Visible Minority
23 Oct 2018
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Cont. of chapter 8: class and status inequality. Symbolic interactionists consider how meanings and symbols enable people to carry out actions and interactions. Provide people with ways to express and exaggerate a particular social economic status or position. Status symbols are things that we can physically see right away. Thinking about how people interpret class and show off class. Feminist theorists examine the gendered aspects of class and stratification. Due to continued gender segregation of the labour force and women"s traditional role in providing unpaid labour in the household, women are at a greater risk of poverty. In most countries, including canada, poverty is feminized. In 2010, the wealthiest 1% of canadian tax filers held 10. 6 per cent of the national total income. Often the rich are born into wealthy families. Ascribed statuses are valuable tools for the continuation of being wealthy. A common distinction used to define poverty is between absolute and relative poverty:
