SOC 104 Chapter 23: Class and Power

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Laura Thrasher

Document Summary

Social images & social realities are two things, although not entirely separate from each other ! Social images (which is how it can be portrayed) can come from old, historical views, or from contemporary creators like the mass media and popular culture ! The rural environment has been canada"s important source for the image of equality. Canada has made it so that people assume the roles of middle-class classlessness ! Ex. most students end up going to university even when it means having to thrift and earn a little bit more money because lots of students have gotten through ! The main values of the society are concerned with the consumption of commodities for everybody except for a small group of the permanently poor at the bottom. Credit facilities are available for a large group of low income which enables them to be consumers of commodities over & above the necessities of life.