SOCIOL 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fraser Institute, Precarious Work, Social Inequality
10 Sep 2013
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Thomas: phenomena do not have to be real, to be real in their consequences. Elites have a certain classness about them that can explain their patterns of behavior. The poor, because of their visibility and their impact on class, the notions of class then become and are given a certain visibility. Poverty has a common sense understanding and it is possible that those who are not well educated in sociology may find that this term is not problematic. The reality is considerably different and we have a concept that is astonishingly complex, in-definitive, and so multidimensional that it is easy to despair any kind of conclusions that suggests we have a body of knowledge about poverty. Poverty is a concept that has no national definition in canada, the federal refuses to define poverty and refers to it as people who live in straightened circumstances or in low income brackets.
