SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Feudalism, Proletariat, Class Consciousness

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Lisa Kowalchuk

Document Summary

Government plays a small but important role in redistributing money to children and families who are poor. Income inequality is lower in canada than in the united states but higher in many western. In this sense, social structure shapes the distribution of inequality. It allows them to sweep away all traces of privilege and social convention laboratory for the study of wealth and poverty, power and powerlessness, esteem and disrespect. Economic inequality in canada: canada is one of the world"s most prosperous countries. In reality, people don"t share prosperity equally some are rich, some are poor, and most are in between. Week 6 february 10th-12th, 2015: natural talent + effort + skill-rich environments + developed skills + social and cultural capital ! rewards. Myths about the poor: people are poor because they don"t want to work, most poor people are immigrants, most poor people are trapped in poverty.