If media reports are to be believed, Canadians look to be a particularly unhappy lot right now. The recent bout of inflation and interest rate rises appear to have precipitated a specific phase of economic suffering that has spilled over into personal lives, and that misery appears to be uniform across demographic and socioeconomic categories. According to one survey, financial troubles, inflation, and high interest rates are having an impact on Canadians' mental health, driving concern about housing and food. Millennials, particularly those who own a home, appear to be the most vulnerable to economic downturns as interest rates rise on tight debt burdens and economic damage wreaks havoc on the economy and expectations. Burdened by debt and rising housing expenses, three-in-ten Canadians are "struggling" to make ends meet, with mortgage holders reporting trouble meeting housing bills up 11% from last June. If you have a place to live, you struggle to pay your bills, and
Equality of cultural capital: The Framework Identifying the interests in cultural capital that underpin these two components allows me to develop a conception of equality appropriate for regulating equality claims based on cultural capital, or equality of cultural capital. By 'equality of cultural capital', I mean Walzer's complex equality model, which refuses to admit the existence of one encompassing rule of distribution but forms. The relationship between equality and distributive justice is based on a variety of distribution criteria, which reflect in many different spheres of distribution. Following Walzer's complex equality model, to which my own conception of equality belongs, I incorporate cultural capital as a sphere in people's lives to address a key question: whether there is a difference between the level of recognition and protection received from the state by members of the majority and members of the minority. Previous research studies have found th