SOCI 2510 Lecture Notes - Social Inequality, Takers, Infant Mortality
29 Nov 2013
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Social inequality, disease and death in canada lecture: october 22nd, 2013. Aboriginals suffer from the highest cumulative disadvantage. Important to consider immigrant profile per decade. How that profile changes, and the health indicators. Educational structure, gender, immigration reasons, whether they were economic or refugees. Spatial & temporal dimensions of social inequality: age and gender. Marital status (marriage & the family): married people have better health opposed to non-married people. Temporal dimensions: the age & generation dimension of social structure (e. g. relationships between age cohorts, generations) Infancy (&infant mortality: age groups of dependency (children and retirees: life chances related to material poverty, the socially active age groups (15-65) life chances related to relative deprivation (inequality of education, class, income discrimination etc. ) Ontario: age 18-25 20% unemployed (above average of canada as a whole) Double shift men are helping more, but in the leisure activities of the children.
