SOCI 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Blue-Collar Worker, Technocracy, Nuclear Family
Week 5- racialized inequality
How would Marx and Weber explain first nations inequality in Canada?
• Weber
o Status and prestige
o Colonialism
o Access to health, education and proper justice system
o Marginalized from benefits
• Marx
o Economic foundation
Caada’s colour coded labour market
• By 00, iigrats will be about a third of Caada’s populatio
• Not having an opportunity
Vertical Mosaic
• Canada is a mosaic of different ethnic, language, regional and religious groupings
unequal in status and power
• Immigrant white men earn the most in Canada
o Higher education
o Have a lot experience
o Do not face the systemic biases of race
o If your qualifications match what Canada wants
• First nation women earn the least
• Young men earn more than older men
• Canadian born black face significant gap
• Education level does not mitigate what job immigrants have because of credential
devaluation
• Inequality is institutionalized
Racialized poverty
• In 2006, poverty rate was 11% in Canada, but 22% for racialized persons
• Poverty is gendered
o 28.8% of racialized minority women were in poverty
o women in general population of 15.9%
• children of racial minorities experience rates of 43% in Ontario
• new comers experience poverty 3.2x than Canadian-born
o 36% of immigrants in Canada live in poverty
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