PSY 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nuclear Family, Visible Minority, Gender Pay Gap

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3123
• Professor: Caroline Sullivan

Document Summary

Race: a system of classifying people based on physical characteristics such as skin colour. Ethnicity: the term used to specify a group of people who share a common cultural heritage (regardless of race) Aboriginal people: aboriginal families consist of parents and children living together in a household, but also extended family networks. Based on social bonds: aboriginal population is growing nearly six times faster than canadian population as a whole. English and french canadians: character of english canadian society has roots in britain. Canada became part of british empire as result of conquest and colonization. Less encouraging of community-wide cooperation; contrary to cultural and religious practices of roman catholics in quebec or aboriginals: quebec government encouraged a society that mirrored france. Roman catholic church defined family and educational goals. Underpinning of french language and culture: from 1960 on, authority of rc church replaced by education, industrial economy replaced rural, large family curtailed by sexual revolution and contraceptive advances.