SOC100H5 Chapter 6: Sociology Chapter 6 Textbook Notes
30
SOC100H5 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
30 documents
Document Summary
Wealth: assets minus liabilities, can give an individual more political influence; campaign contributions & donations, poorest fifth, the second poorest fifth, middle fifth, second-richest fifth, richest fifth; richest. Improves health; high-quality food, leisure pursuits families won. If canadians only relied on the marker to distribute income, inequality would be much greater. Defining poverty: poverty: lacks an agreed-on definition. Analysts disagree whether poverty should be defined in absolute or relative terms and whether it should be based on income or consumption. Myths about poverty: people are poor (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause the(cid:455) do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to (cid:449)ork, most poor people are immigrants, most poor people are trapped in poverty. Explaining poverty: explanations range from individual-level to structural explanations. Individual-level focus on the attributes of people who are poor, asking how these people differ from people who are not poor. It focuses on (cid:272)auses that lie (cid:862)(cid:449)ithi(cid:374) the perso(cid:374)(cid:863).
