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Social Class - Correct Answers represents any important means of expressing distinctions within society
Poverty - Correct Answers generally thought of as the absence of access to something essential
Social class (symbolic interactionism) - Correct Answers-Max Weber
-people can be grouped into a specific social class when there are similarities in the ability to access
resources (similar interests and lifestyles develop from class groupings)
-social class is useful because it highlights issues of social status and power
Conspicuous - Correct Answers-deliberate consumption of goods or services as a way to draw others'
attention
-engaging in leisure activities that suggest wealth and status
Absolute poverty - Correct Answers- when people are not receiving enough resources to support or
maintain their physical health over time
Relative poverty - Correct Answersrefers to the social context and can vary in time and place
Measuring low income and poverty - Correct Answers-Low Income cut off
-Market basket approach
Low income cut off - Correct Answers-official stats Canada measure of poverty
-considers geographic area, but generally marks income levels where people spend most of their income
on food, shelter, and clothing
, Market basket approach - Correct Answers-estimates the cost of a specific "basket" of goods and
services that are required to reach a minimum standard of living
Causes of poverty - Correct Answers- individual or pathological causes (behaviour, choices, abilities)
-familial causes (family history)
-agency causes (actions of others - war, government)
-structural causes (lack of access to power and resources in society)
Spheres of wellness - Correct Answersleisure helps fulfill most
-physical
-emotional
-intellectual
-social
-spiritual
-environment
-occupational
Social inequality - Correct Answersmembers of a social group have different amounts of wealth, power
or prestige
Social stratification - Correct Answershierarchically ranked attributes within the group
Social class - Correct Answerspeople occupying the same relative economic rank in a stratified social
system
Social mobility - Correct Answersmovement of individuals from one social location in class system to
another
intragenerational mobility - Correct Answersmobility within one's lifetime