SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Bourgeoisie, Dependency Theory, Cultural Capital
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Social strati cation: the way society is organized in layers or strata. Human capital: investment in education and training, just as productivity increases by upgrading manufacturing plants and introducing new technology productivity gains can also result from investment in the skills and abilities of people. Social capital: the networks or connections that individuals possess. Cultural capital: the widely shared, high-status, cultural signals (attitudes, preferences, formal knowledge, behaviours, goals, and credentials) used for social and cultural inclusion and exclusion. Poverty: this term does not have an agreed-upon de nition as canada does not have a poverty line, it has a lico that marks the income level that a family may become strained from. Feminization of poverty: theory that women are more likely to be low-income earners than men are, and that the income gap between men and women is growing. Marx believed that capital growth would eventually produce a society without class con ict.
