SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Human Capital, Social Stratification, Economic Inequality
2 Dec 2013
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Chapter 8: social stratification: canadian and global perspectives. Use shipwrecks and their survivors to make a point about social inequality. It allows them to sweep away all traces of privilege and social convention; remains human beings stripped to bare essentials for the study of wealth and poverty, power and powerlessness, and esteem and disrespect. Daniel defoe"s robinson crusoe writes about a man deserted on an island and able to create it into a thriving colony; portray work ethic of capitalism favourable. Believed that people get rich if they possess virtues of good businesspeople (strong will, hard work, and inventiveness) and stay poor if they don"t. Economic prosperity has made canada one of the best countries in the world to live in 2006, canadian families made an average income of , 800 in early 1950s, canadian families earned less than k.
