SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cultural Capital, Economic Capital, Economic Inequality
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Social stratification refers to the way in which society is hierarchically organized in layers or strata. If we only have this kind of information we would think things are looking. Line graph begins in 1951 and ends in 2008. Overall the average income has increased overall. Average income is ,000 in canada now good in canada people"s money is increasing increased but doesn"t mean life quality has increased that. We need to know that the cost of living has increased now, so this income has. There is all this other information that we would want to know to determine. If we tabulated all the income and then divided it according to the top 1/5 and so on from 1951 to 2007. Had so many changes happen in society but the distribution of income has. Fundamentally the shape of the pie graph has stayed relatively the same. Shows that the kind of patterns of inequality we have hasn"t changed.
