Social Differentiation: Patterns and Processes

✍ Scribed by Danielle Juteau (editor)

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 317
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

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