Social Differentiation : Patterns and Processes.
Juteau, Danielle.
Social Differentiation : Patterns and Processes. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (318 pages) - Trends Project Series . - Trends Project Series .
Intro -- 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.
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.
9781442680029
Differentiation (Sociology).
Group identity-Canada.
Canada-Social conditions-1991-.
Canada-Social policy.
Electronic books.
HM821 .S624 2003
305
Social Differentiation : Patterns and Processes. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (318 pages) - Trends Project Series . - Trends Project Series .
Intro -- 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.
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.
9781442680029
Differentiation (Sociology).
Group identity-Canada.
Canada-Social conditions-1991-.
Canada-Social policy.
Electronic books.
HM821 .S624 2003
305