SOC 300 Lecture 8: SY101 week 8

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 300
• Professor: Camille Hernandez- Ramdwar

Document Summary

Multiculturalism and its critics: multiculturalism has gone through 3 phases, folkloric multiculturalism (1970-80) Introduced by prime minister pierre elliot trudeau: focused on celebrating differences, centered around ethnic food, costume and dance, institutional multiculturalism (1980s, a more instrumentalist view of multiculturalism. Ideology of us melting-pot policy if immigrant lands in usa, Inequality is affected by social class, gender and ethnicity overlapping: great diversity among and within ethnic groups in terms of their class. The roles of class, gender and place of birth social variables composition: earning inequalities within ethnic groups. The future of race and ethnicity: ethnicity and race are social relations, the concepts of race and ethnicity are about dominantation and subordination rooted in colonialism, eg brown and blue eyes. Issues in cdn families: several issues have changed family life in canadian society, sharing household work, medically assisted conception, affordable and regulated child care, divorce and re-partnering.