SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Visible Minority, Mortality Rate
26 Mar 2019
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In canada there is unequal access to scarce resources based on race and ethnicity: we have stratification. Recent immigrants and visible minorities are at the bottom of the hierarchy. Aboriginal peoples are among the most severely disadvantaged: usa. Complex interplay of four patterns of minority-majority interactions: pluralism: social parity of distinct racial and ethnic minorities. They are treated differently but not unequal: assimilation: minorities gradually adopt the pattern of dominant culture, segregation: physical and social separation of categories of people, genocide: systematic extinction of one category of people by another. Processes of: racism, prejudice, discrimination, not about genocide. The study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations. Changes in the proportionate size of the aged subpopulation. Changes in the composition of the aged subpopulation: number of elder seniors (above 65) continue to increase in canada. Determined by fertility levels and low mortality levels.
