SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Upper Class, Social Inequality, Visible Minority

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Chapter 11: canadian"s think we are a middle-class society, however our society is highly strati ed, rich control most of money, and poor families struggle to make end meet. Income: occupational wages or salaries, earnings from investments, and government transfer payments i. e. welfare, contributor to rinsing incomes was the increase in dual-income families. Wealth: the total amount of money and other assets, minus outstanding debts, wealth is distributed less evenly than income, canada does not measure or tax wealth (usa does) Power: wealth stands as an important source of power. Occupational prestige: physicians, lawyers, and engineers are ranked near the top on prestige, cashiers and janitors are ranked near the bottom. Ancestry: nothing affect social standing in canada as much as our birth into a particular family. French, the japanese have exceptionally high incomes - racism and discrimination are not the sole determinants of income inequality.