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.