SOCA01H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Star-News, Impression Management, Kindergarten
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Social stratification - the way in which society is organized in layers or strata. Titanic was an example of inequality and shipwrecks. Lower class people had crammed rooms, while upper class had luxurious rooms. Economic productivity increased, as worker skill increased. Large number of women joined labor force starting 1960"s (2 incomes) Top 5% earn most, and bottom 5% earns least. For majority of people genes don"t play big role in how much $ they make. Natural talents must be shaped through practice, and effort. Effort is essential to work your way up. Families in the bottom end of the rainbow owe more then they own. 90% of students in quebec spoke neither english, nor french. Most italian families took their kids out of public school, and made basement schools. Teachers at winston churchill hs in scarbz made a curriculum using black history, and caribbean to teach kids.
