SOC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Canadian Indian Residential School System, Matrilocal Residence, Premarital Sex

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 300
• Professor: Kelly Train

Document Summary

When you look at inequality what manifests is the systems or structures of systems of inequality. What tends to immerge is income, issues of health, and law. 2/3 of abirginals population, earn less than 20 thousand a year in comparison to half of canadian population. What we tend to see is that how aboriginal populations, tend to largly live in empoversihed, overcrowded, unsafe conditions. If you live on a reserve, you don"t have access to clean water, a proper seqage system, or heat. What also gets looked at is what kind of access to aboriginal peoples have to health services. We look at how the death rate seems to be twice that of the general population. Their life spam tends ot be 20 years less than other canadains. But it"s a combo of class, colonialism and colonial policies. What did aboriginal places look like prior to colonilzation they forging societies before.