7. Name the government scheme or law meant to address the inequalities
mentioned below.
a) Inequality based on disabilities
b) Inequality faced at the workplace based on gender
Answers
Answer:
What Is Social Inequality?
Break the concept of social inequality into its component parts: social differentiation, social stratification, and social distributions of wealth, income, power, and status.
Define the difference between equality of opportunity and equality of condition.
Distinguish between caste and class systems.
Distinguish between class and status.
Identify the structural basis for the different classes that exist in capitalist societies.
Social Inequality and Mobility in Canada
Define the difference between relative and absolute poverty.
Describe the current trend of increasing inequalities of wealth and income in Canada.
Distinguish the the differences between Marx’s and Weber’s definitions of social class and explain why they are significant.
Characterize the social conditions of the owning class, the middle class, and the traditional working class in Canada.
Apply the research on social mobility to the question of whether Canada is a meritocracy.
Recognize cultural markers that are used to display class identity.