SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Mobility, Social Inequality, Working Poor
14 Dec 2016
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Relative poverty: gaps between the living conditions of some groups and those enjoyed by the majority of the population, found everywhere, always going to have relative poverty. Low income cut-offs in canada: threshold/method used to determine the number of people with low income. Represent a level of income of a family of a certain size that would have to spend 20 percentage points more of its income on food, shelter, and clothing than the average family of the same size. Looking at this data from a stratification point of view. Just by looking at these groups of people it tells us the poor in canada: are groups (categories) of people, are not defined by employment status. Many of the poor form part of the working poor. Working poor: men and women who work for pay at least 50 weeks per year (full time) and still live below the low-income line. Aboriginal peoples & certain visible minorities race & ethnicity.
