SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Gini Coefficient, Social Class
8 Jan 2019
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Its harder to go up in the social class today. Caste system: high degree of class consistency. Example: working in oil sands - less prestige but a lot of power. For weber, social class is based on economic? interest. Sometimes pair with employer ( same social class) and sometimes oppose employer (di erent social class). We do not have a measurement for poverty. Once you start to count the poor you have to take action. The rational about that is to create a threshold. People who make more than the threshold are not low income and people who make less than that are low income. Average canadian family spends 43% of the family income (after tax) on: clothing, shelter, food. Lico: % + 20% percentage point = 63% In alberta in a family of 2, you make k you are likely to be spending more than 63% in clothing, shelter and food.
