SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Distance, De Jure, Educational Entrance Examination
Document Summary
Canada is a diverse and complex society composed of racially and ethnically different groups and is widely renowned for its cultural democracy and harmonious ethnic diversity. Significant gains have been made in the past fifty years for visible and non-visible minority groups in canada. Vertical mosaic (john porter): canada"s ethnic groups are vertically arranged according to income, power, and prestige (top, middle, and bottom) Inequality: (stratification) are there groups that are over represented in terms of prestige, power. Occupational differentiation: reduction of ethnic division of labour of 30% for men and. Occupational stratification: reduction of 50% for men and 45% for women over 50 years. Lautard and guppy compared 1971 and 2006 figures: concluded that ethnic stratification was less pronounced in 2006 than in 1971. Between 1931 and 2006 a decline in the significance of ethnicity occurred for both occupational differentiation and stratification. Yet ethnic origin continues to affect occupational inequality.
