SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: System On A Chip, Social Mobility, Deskilling
18 Jan 2016
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Whether definition should be n absolute or relative terms absolute definition focuses on essentials, while relative definition may define poverty either narrowly in terms of economic measures or more broadly in terns of community standards. Whether poverty should be defined on basis of income or consumption. Who are the poor: 14% of canadian population not randomly distributed, highly concentrated in certain groups of ppl, women 2/3 of poor are women, 1mil children in, persons with disabilities- close to half earn. Social stratification is the hierarchical arrangement of large social groups based on their control over basic resource. Students of stratification study: the structure of shape of inequality, the movement of people between layers, how and why these dimension of inequality vary over time and place, micro level and everyday interation the reinforce. Theories of stratification: marx"s theory of stratification (power, davis and moores functional theory of stratification (function)
