SOC220H1 Lecture Notes - Gini Coefficient, Economic Inequality, Blue-Collar Worker

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9 Dec 2011
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Margaret wente"s g&m article, sat nov 5, occupiers are blaming the wrong. Homicide are at 40 year low but people think the opposite. >how we embody social structure (class, institutions, rules) > out internalized sense of our place in the social pecking order. >affects everything we think, say, feel, hear, do, say and dis/like. >the generations that came before you and how they shaped each succeeding. >your parents their ses, particularly their education. Perhaps you were raised by other family members, or. Ca does not have a poverty line or one definitnio/measure of poverty . 9. 4% of cdns live in families whose income is below the after-tax lico (~3m) 59% of cdn workers say they would be in 5366 trouble if their paycheque was delayed 1 wk. Ca"s gap btwn rich and poor is growing. The after-tax income gap hasn"t been this high in at least 30 years. It has been growing even faster than the late 1990"s.

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