SOC100 Lecture 24: Stratification in Canada
3 Nov 2015
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Soc 100 lecture 24 stratification in canada. Income: the money a person makes in a year. It is a comparative thing across people who are equal. Has really severe consequences (they are often starving): relative poverty: floating standard by which people at the bottom of a society are judged as being disadvantaged in comparison to the nation as a whole. Relative poverty is the broader concept, and the low income cut off is how you would calculate it. Many poor adults work outside the home (the working poor): people who have jobs but do not have enough money to be above the low income cut off mark. These people benefit which is why poverty exists. Anybody who is not poor benefits from those people living in poverty: criminals benefit from the poor. The gangs prey on the poor people: punishment of the poor as deviants upholds the legitimacy of conventional social norms.
