SOCI 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Stratification, Canada Pension Plan, Cultural Capital

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3 Dec 2016
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Social stratification: the organization of society into layers or strata reflecting the hierarchical structures of class and status. Quintile: a statistical value of a data set that represents 20% of a given population, used to create cut-off points for a given population. Income distribution and a system of inequality can be reshaped by: changing laws governing people"s right to own property, entitling people to various welfare benefits, redistributing income through tax policies. Is stratification inevitable: marx"s conflict theory, believed capitalist growth would produce a society without classes and class conflict and experience escalating economic crises of. Income and wealth are unequally distributed in canada. The government plays a small, but important, role in redistributing money to children and families who are poor. Income inequality is lower in canada than in the united states but higher than in many western european countries. Most theories of social inequality focus on its economic roots.

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