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Citizen Journalism

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Social media as journalistic outlet

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hidden homeless

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people staying with friends or family while homeless

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genderqueer

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person who resists gender norms but does not seek to change their sex

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genderfluid

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a person who has a gender or genders that change over time and contexts

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Maslows Hierarchy of Needs

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Self-Actualization - spontaneity - ability to express- esteem - love/belonging - safety - physiological

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Absolute poverty

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lack of necessities

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Relative Poverty

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inadequecy compared to average living standards

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Low Income Measure (LIM)

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Making less than half the median income

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Low-Income Cut-Off (LICO)

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defines low income as spending 20 percent more than the average Canadian on food, shelter, clothing

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Market Basket Measure (MBM)

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estimates cost of basic goods for reference families and expressed percent living below

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Social Stratification

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Categorization of people into groups based on wealth - income - race - gender etc. may be closed or open

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Social Mobility

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movement within and between classes

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Vertical mobility

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between classes, can be intragenerational or intergenerational

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Davis-Moore thesis

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inequalities must be necessary in order for society to function properly, must have various duties and some rewarded better than others

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Ralf Dahrendorf

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said marxist revolution never happened because more people have stake in capitalist system, increase in standard of living, union success etc

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Max Weber

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argued class and economic inequalities were not only measure of stratification - class status power - doubted overthrowing capitalism was the answer

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C Wright Mills

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helped establish elites as an important topic - power in US - military elite, corporate elite and political elite

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John Porter

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vertical mosaic, most significant canadian sociological book

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Feminization of poverty

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women are at greater risk of poverty, gendered segregation in workford, division of domestic labour, more unpaid care work

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Violence against intimate partners

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women more likely to experience severe, reports equal among genders, financially disadvantaged higher likely hood, same sex partners experience more

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Talcott Parson

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argued males possess instrumental character traits whereas females display expressive character traits

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First wave feminism

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Women became persons

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second wave feminism

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no fault divorce, access to birth control, abortion access, marital rape

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Third Wave Feminism

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recognition of matric and white middle-class women don’t speak for all women

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Intersectionality

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examines interlocking nature of social categories that create more complex oppression

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Moynihan

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Argued social problems within african american communities came from pathological matriarchy, black wives out-earning their husbands

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Dubois

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Female headed african american families outcome of racial oppression and poverty

28
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William Julius Wilson

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graphed a marriageable black male index and saw less than 50 men to 100 women

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Patricia Hill Collins

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argues ideal families was upper-class resulted in extrafamilial community members raising children

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Charles Wright

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4 functions of media - surveillance, correlation, transmission and entertainment