SOC271 Lecture 15: March 9- Chapter 10 (Lecture and Textbook)
10 Mar 2017
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Chapter 10- family poverty in canada: correlates, coping strategies, and. Social inequality and poverty have long characterized canadian social life, as families confront the daily struggle of making ends meet. Canadians experienced 2 severe recessions in the early 80s and early 90s. After a period of sustained economic growth, canada again witnessed an economic recession in 2009, although this time without the same sorts of job losses and double-digit unemployment observed earlier. Canadians share and pool income: economic events that influence the availability of jobs and the sorts of wages available in the labour market, political events that influence the types of transfer payments that canadians receive from government. Demographic changes- population shifts related to their size, distribution, and composition (ex. ethnicities, age structure, family statuses, etc. ), changes in them, and the components of such changes, that is, births, deaths, migration, and social mobility (change of status)
