Exam 8: Class

What program is NOT part of the Canada Health and Social Transfer (CHST)?

Which group is NOT part of the petite bourgeoisie class?

There are currently almost one million Canadians living in poverty.

Who brought in national medicare in the 1960s?

The Social Credit Party pioneered hospital and medical insurance at the provincial level in Saskatchewan.

What is NOT usually a demand of the corporate elite?

What are some of the significant differences between the "old" and the "new" middle class?

What does it mean to be "class-conscious"? How does this sentiment affect the working and poor classes in Canada?

Within the apparatus of government, what is often seen as a lobby for big business?

Even though the House of Commons passed a resolution in 1989 to eliminate child poverty in Canada by 2000, the number of children living in poverty increased by 50 percent during the 1990s.

What is the significance of the social safety net?

Karl Marx divided society in a capitalist economy into two separate classes. What did he call these two classes?

Which statement best describes the position of state-centred theorists with regard to class-consciousness in Canada?

Why are the corporate elite thought to wield so much political power in Canada?

The Employment and Social Insurance Act enacted by R.B. Bennett's Conservatives was declared unconstitutional by the courts.

Class-consciousness in Canada is weakest among the new middle class.

Which category best describes the "working class"?

The Canadian social safety net reached its height in the 1960s.

Since 2004, approximately what percentage of union members have been women?

List five suggestions for how governments could improve the lot of the poor.