SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Occupational Inequality, Visible Minority, Racialization
Document Summary
Canada is a diverse and complex society composed of racially and. Canada is widely renowned for its cultural democracy and harmonious ethnically different groups ethnic diversity. Significant gains have been made in the past fifty years for visible and non visible: minority groups in canada. However racism is an important part of canada"s history and part of its current circumstances. Vertical mosaic: canada"s ethnic groups are vertically arranged according to income, power, and prestige. Lautrad and guppy compared 1971 and 2006 figures: concluded that ethnic stratification was less pronounces. Between 1931 and 2006 a decline in the significant of ethnicity occurred for both occupational differentiation and stratification (ethnicity played les of a role) Occupational differentiation: reduction of ethnic division of labour of. 30% for men and 45% for women of 70 years. Occupational stratification: reduction of 50% for men and 45% for women over 50 years. Yet ethnic origin continues to affect occupational inequality.
