CT355 Chapter 5: Oct. 27 Ch. 5 Reading
12 Feb 2016
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Chapter 5: racialized inequality: 151 chapter highlights. The relationship between inequality and racialized minority groups is a complex and evolving one, but generally speaking. Canada remains stratified by race and ethnicity, judging by persistent gaps in income, employment, and poverty levels. Functionalists tend to see ethnic inequality as necessary and normal in a complex society. Conflict theorists prefer to think of inequality as inevitable only in securing the foundations of exploitative societies. The notion of racialized inequality is currently under reconsideration. The emphasis on ethno-cultural differences and individual attitudes as the source of the problem (the ethnicity paradigm) is shifting toward structural factors as they relate to institutional rules, processes, and outcomes (the equity paradigm) With the emergence of the equity paradigm, the focus on structures as the problem has altered government solutions. Growing emphasis on institutional inclusion through the removal of discriminatory barriers. The concept of equality has shifted as well, resulting in two competing models.
