SOC263H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Richard Florida, Secondary Sector Of The Economy, Creative Class
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Primary sector: mining: forestry, taking from the earth. We are living in a service dominated environment. Differences in terms of disparity, the larger the space of the nation, more likely the variation. Staples approach: theoretical explanation used to explain regional inequality, differences in the endowments of natural resources. Power goes to those who have access to knowledge. Knowledge workers become the new elites in the society. Creative class: scientists, poets, artists, works in highlands, high level of education. Brain gain cities are experiences when these creative people move into them: portal, Moving to places where they have interesting work. Creative job opportunities, and new emerging job opportunities. Experience of economic shift differentiate according to social position. Major trend has been the suburbanization of poverty. Poorest places remains in rural communities, spaces. Poverty in back belt regions, slaves became sharecroppers of lands owned by whites. World"s poorest people are also rural *mc question.
