SOSA 2141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Racialization, Occupational Segregation, Deskilling

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 2141
• Professor: Karen Foster

Document Summary

Week 6 inequality at wrok: 100 years of sex and racial segregation. People in different social categories doing different kinds of work. Social categories: age, gender, race and the intersections of these. Work = paid and unpaid, in and outside the home. How you are perceived (as a man vs. woman, as black/white/asian/aboriginal, etc. ) shapes your occupational opportunities and outcomes. The process of ascribing race to a group of people. To be racialized is to have to a race assigned to you. Has roots in colonialism and whiteness every group that is not white is racilaized; Some groups are no longer racialized but have folded into the category of white . Horizontal segregation: segregation into different jobs, but no real difference in pay. Vertical segregation: segregation into higher and lower-paying jobs. Canadian statistics: horizontal segregation persists, but vertical segregation is declining. Some income convergence between some racial groups and white, anglo people over time, but inequality persists.