SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Baby Boomers

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Susan Miller

Document Summary

Men of upper castes have sexual access to both high/low caste women, low caste men have sexual access only to low caste women (same as in class system) . Members of different castes avoid each other on occasions when it is at all possible o. Live/work/shop/dine in different areas minimize amount of contact (same as in class system) Will never come across word poverty in stats canada . Lico = low income cut-off : has no negative connotations that poverty has, spends 63%+ of after-tax income on food, clothing and shelter. 2 types of poverty relative absolute (look at in book) 15% of canadian children live in poverty: manitoba or newfoundland labrador is the child poverty capital of canada, fastest growing group who make up the homeless are kids. Until 12-15 years ago, had large numbers of seniors living in poverty. This number has declined there are social programs available to help. Will soon be massive numbers of seniors retiring.