[SOCI 1101] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (63 pages long)

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No job, no matter how lowly, is truly unskilled: Harder to sort out a human microsystem when you"re in it. The more they think you can do the more they will use and abuse. What we experience as strength comes from knowing what do from our weaknesses. 2 things: eating and a place to stay. Hard to do 2 physically demanding jobs efficiently. Rich and poor compete poor doesn"t have a chance. Rich are more numerous (rising stock prices and exec salaries) the poor are forced into more expensive living. Still calculated by taking bare bone costs of food for family x 3. 1960s 24% of avg family budget and housing 29% Expansion of public rental subsidies halted in 90s. Housing subsidy (20,000 a year) would have allowed for nicer living. Shortage of people willing to work for that wage rate. Wage increase has not brought low wage workers to the amounts they earned 20 years ago.

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