SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bourgeoisie, Junk Food, Industrial Revolution
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Stratification inequality, looking at the inequality of different strata. Poor, powerful- powerless, highly- less educated of people into classes: the way society is organized in layers or strata, hierarchical ranking, rich- Income: money earned over a given period state: tax and redistribuon. Social inequality: welfare, advantages of wealth well- being. Canada 1976 and 2007: figure 6. 2 the distribution of total income among families and unattached individuals, Myth: people are poor because they don"t want to work, most poor people are immigrants, most poor people are trapped in poverty, poverty is inevitable. Inequality benefits the rich and powerful: the government should not provide jobs or basic income. Conflict: bourgeoisie- the elites, proletariat- the working class, by standardizing you can supress wages of employees such that other competing bourgeoisie will become proletariat (the industrial revolution) Age- standardized incident (table) before: we are losing the war with cancer. Social basis of cancer: genes responsible for 5-10% of cancer.
