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Ted seized the opportunity at Upper Canada to make money as a bookie, taking bets on horse racing from the other students. The family was still wealthy enough to send him to Upper Canada College, the famous private school that also educated the children from the Black, Eaton, Thompson, and Weston families. His mother took Ted Jr. aside when he was eight and told him, “Ted, your business is to get the family name back” (Rogers, 2008). was five years old, and the family businesses were sold. went from this invention to manufacturing radios, owning a radio station, and acquiring a licence for TV broadcasting. His grandfather, Albert Rogers, was a director of Imperial Oil (Esso) and his father, Ted Sr., became wealthy when he invented an alternating current vacuum tube for radios in 1925. The story of Ted Rogers is not exactly a rags to riches one, however. In many respects, he saw himself as a self-made billionaire who started from scratch, seized opportunities, and created a business through his own initiative. 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 business. 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. Who gets monumentalized in Canada, and who gets forgotten? (Image courtesy of Oaktree/Wikimedia Commons) The Ted Rogers statue with Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research in the background. Introduction to Social Inequality in Canada Figure 9.2.

Understand and apply functionalist, critical sociological and interpretive perspectives on social inequality.

Theoretical Perspectives on Social Inequality

Understand how sociological studies identify worldwide inequalities.ĩ.4.

Describe different sociological models for understanding global inequality.

Recognize cultural markers that are used to display class identity.ĩ.3.

Apply the research on social mobility to the question of whether Canada is a meritocracy.

Characterize the social conditions of the owning class, the middle class, and the traditional working class in Canada.

Distinguish the the differences between Marx’s and Weber’s definitions of social class and explain why they are significant.

Describe the current trend of increasing inequalities of wealth and income in Canada.

Define the difference between relative and absolute poverty.

Identify the structural basis for the different classes that exist in capitalist societies.ĩ.2.

Distinguish between caste and class systems.

Define the difference between equality of opportunity and equality of condition.

Break the concept of social inequality into its component parts: social differentiation, social stratification, and social distributions of wealth, income, power, and status.