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May 25, 2017 · Broad global trends suggest that economic inequality, at its historic peak according to some metrics (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2014; Piketty & Saez, 2014), is a pressing societal problem impacting the health and well-being of individuals: In roughly 70% of studies examining the health impacts of economic inequality, data indicate that societal health worsens as ...
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- Introduction to Social Inequality in Canada
- What Is Social Inequality?
- Social Inequality and Mobility in Canada
- Global Stratification and Inequality
- Theoretical Perspectives on Social Inequality
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When he died in 2008, Ted Rogers Jr., then CEO of Rogers Communications, was the fifth-wealthiest individual in Canada, holding assets worth $5.7 billion. In his autobiography (2008) he credited his success to a willingness to take risks, work hard, bend the rules, be on the constant look-out for opportunities, and be dedicated to building the busi...
Sociologists use the term social inequality to describe the unequal distribution of valued resources, rewards, and positions in a society. Key to the concept is the notion of social differentiation. Social characteristics — differences, identities, and roles — are used to differentiate people and divide them into different categories, which have im...
Most sociologists define social class as a grouping based on similar social factors like wealth, income, education, and occupation. As we note later in the chapter, there is dispute within the discipline about the relative importance of different criteria for characterizing economic position. Whether the Marxist emphasis on property ownership is mo...
Global stratificationcompares the wealth, economic stability, status, and power of countries across the world. Global stratification highlights worldwide patterns of social inequality. In the early years of civilization, hunter-gatherer and agrarian societies lived off the Earth, rarely interacting with other societies. When explorers began travell...
Basketball is one of the highest-paying professional sports. There is stratification even among teams. For example, the Minnesota Timberwolves hand out the lowest annual payroll, while the Los Angeles Lakers reportedly pay the highest. Kobe Bryant, a Lakers shooting guard who retired in 2016, was one of the highest paid athletes in the NBA, earning...
9.1. What Is Social Inequality? Stratification systems are either closed, meaning they allow little change in social position, or open, meaning they allow movement and interaction between the layers. A caste system is one in which social standing is based on ascribed status or birth. Class systems are open, with achievement playing a role in social...
9.1. What Is Social Inequality? The New York Times investigated social stratification in their series of articles called “Class Matters.” The online accompaniment to the series includes an interactive graphic called “How Class Works,”which tallies four factors — occupation, education, income, and wealth — and places an individual within a certain c...
9.. Introduction to Social Inequality in Canada Bourdieu, P. (1990). The logic of practice. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. CBC Radio. (2010, September 14). Part 3: Former gang members. The Current[Audio file]. Retrieved from http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2010/09/september-14-2010.html. Rogers, T., & Brehl, R. (2008). Ted Rogers: Relentless...
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Figure 9.1. Rolls Royce outside the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas by Dave_7 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/daveseven/5781666396/) used under a CC BY 2.0 license(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) Figure 9.2. Statue of Ted Rogers by Oaktree (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ted_Rogers_Statue_Toronto.JPG) is used under a Free Art Lice...
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Feb 28, 2018 · The resulting differences in the ways that working-class and middle- and upper-class people think and act serve to reinforce these influences of social class background, making it harder for working-class individuals to benefit from the kinds of educational and employment opportunities that would increase social mobility and thereby improve their material circumstances.
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This social class typology is informed by several approaches to class analysis within the conflict theoretical framework (e.g., Dahrendorf 1959; Marx 1976, 1978; Wright 1979, 1985, 1997). 2 Marx (1976), for example, held that social class divisions are based on differences in property ownership and that exploitation, defined as the appropriation of workers’ surplus labor by property owners ...
Sociologists use the term social inequality to describe the unequal distribution of resources, rewards and positions in a society. When a social category like class, occupation, gender, or race puts people in a position from which they can claim a greater share of resources or services, this becomes the basis of social inequality.
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Aug 12, 2016 · Understanding social class as culture is a relatively recent idea, yet the research conducted thus far illustrates the influence class position can have on people’s behavior and identity. The research also sheds light on how these individual-level processes can feed into macro-level phenomena, such as the growing wealth gap, via social ...
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with the culturally-distinct ways of reasoning than lower class individuals. In contrast, other. theorists suggested that control over the means of production and related environmental. affordances promote different cognitive styles among lower vs. higher classes (Kohn &. Schooler, 1983).
