Social Differentiation : : Patterns and Processes / / ed. by Danielle Juteau.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Cheal, David,; Juteau, Danielle,; Li, Peter S.,; Southcott, Chris,; Vosko, Leah F.,; Wotherspoon, Terry,
• HerausgeberIn: Juteau, Danielle,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Trends Project
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

Social Differentiation examines the economic, political, and normatively defined relations that underlie the construction of social categories. Social differentiation, embedded in inequalities of power, status, wealth, and prestige, affects life chances of individuals as well as the allocation of resources and opportunities.Starting with a theoretical framework that challenges many traditional analyses, the contributors focus on four specific strands of social differentiation: gender, age, race/ethnicity, and locality. They explore the historically specific social practices, policies, and ideologies that produce distinct forms of inequality, in turn revealing and explaining such issues as the formation and maintenance of a gendered order; the privileging of prime-age workers; the penalties incurred by visible minorities in the labour market; the highly disadvantaged position of Aboriginals; and the economic decline of agriculture, resource, and fishing dependent regions. By paying special attention to political processes, norms, and representations, and by indicating how social policies shape economic functioning and relate to normative definitions, this book will interest policy-oriented researchers and decision-makers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1. Introducing Social Differentiation -- 2. Gender Differentiation and the Standard/Non-Standard Employment Distinction: A Genealogy of Policy Interventions in Canada -- 3. Finding a Niche: Age-related Differentiations within the Working-age Population -- 4. Visible Minorities in Canadian Society: Challenges of Racial Diversity -- 5. Aboriginal People, Public Policy, and Social Differentiation in Canada -- 6. Spatially Based Social Differentiation in Canada's Future: Trends in Urban/Non-urban Differences in the Next Decade -- 7. Differentiation, Social Policy, and Citizenship Rights -- References