SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Social Skills, Social Capital, Aboriginal Peoples In Canada
19 Aug 2016
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Influential: the most famous book on canada by a canadian sociologist. Power: c. wright mills, argues power/party is what separates elites from non-elites. Describes five types of organizational elites in canada: Political (political decision makers cabinet, premiers, judicial elite) Bureaucratic (decision makers in federal public service and admin- istrative structure) Findings: power was ethnicized in canada (british favored) Other communities were further down the hierarchy. Want to test if vertical mosaic remains. Methods: census data to see if ethnic communities have different incomes. Findings: the vertical mosaic as described by porter no longer there. Francophone canadians: higher returns from education relative to british origin canadians earn more. Other european canadians: doing as well as british origin canadians, some better. Visible minorities: commonly make less than british canadians blame discrimination. Alternatives: some think this is jumping to conclusions. Canadian government only recognizes degrees from some countries some think this is discrimination, but others as recognition of w\quality of education.
