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72 Cards in this Set
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Enumerated grounds |
Equality examples given in the charter an |
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Analogous grounds |
Characteristics that people cannot change or are only changeable at costs to personal identity |
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TRC: 94 calls to action |
Redress the legacy of residential schools as well as other colonial harms and advance Canadian reconciliation |
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Issue with RCMP and MMIWG: |
- victim blaming - overlook how marginalization can contribute to lateral violence |
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Define lateral violence |
Violence directed sideways at peers instead of at oppressing groups |
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Define othering: |
Labeling and treating individuals/groups as different and inferior from the dominant group |
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Consequences of colonialism: |
1. Creation of under development and economic dependence 2. Addiction 3. Income inequality 4. High unemployment 5. Poor housing 6. Low education levels 7. Family violence |
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Consequences of colonialism: |
1. Creation of under development and economic dependence 2. Addiction 3. Income inequality 4. High unemployment 5. Poor housing 6. Low education levels 7. Family violence |
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Inter generational trauma |
Shared trauma passed down through generations |
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Consequences of colonialism: |
1. Creation of under development and economic dependence 2. Addiction 3. Income inequality 4. High unemployment 5. Poor housing 6. Low education levels 7. Family violence |
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Inter generational trauma |
Shared trauma passed down through generations |
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Inter generational resilience |
The passing of positive self identity and strength between generations |
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4 ACS of indigenous historical trauma |
1. Colonial in origin 2. Cross generational impacts 3. Cumulative effects 4. Collectively experienced |
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4 ACS of indigenous historical trauma |
1. Colonial in origin 2. Cross generational impacts 3. Cumulative effects 4. Collectively experienced |
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Define absolute poverty |
Difficult satisfying basic needs |
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4 ACS of indigenous historical trauma |
1. Colonial in origin 2. Cross generational impacts 3. Cumulative effects 4. Collectively experienced |
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Define absolute poverty |
Difficult satisfying basic needs |
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Define relative poverty |
Persons economic condition compared to average in their community |
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What is the MBM |
Market Basket Measure: calculates how much income a household requires to meet its needs (food, housing) |
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What is the MBM |
Market Basket Measure: calculates how much income a household requires to meet its needs (food, housing) |
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Feminization of poverty: |
Women are over represented among low income |
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What is the MBM |
Market Basket Measure: calculates how much income a household requires to meet its needs (food, housing) |
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Feminization of poverty: |
Women are over represented among low income |
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Define brain gain |
Canada immigration: Influx of talented educated hard working people from other countries |
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What is the MBM |
Market Basket Measure: calculates how much income a household requires to meet its needs (food, housing) |
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Feminization of poverty: |
Women are over represented among low income |
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Define brain gain |
Canada immigration: Influx of talented educated hard working people from other countries |
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Brain drain |
Home countries lose valued individuals due to immigration to other nations such as Canada |
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Who is the most vulnerable population for social inequality in Canada? |
INDIGENOUS |
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Define heteronormativity |
The societal assumption that all people are heterosexual and that heterosexuality is the normal state of being |
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Define heteronormativity |
The societal assumption that all people are heterosexual and that heterosexuality is the normal state of being |
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Bill C-16 |
Added gender identity and gender expression to the list of banned grounds of discrimination |
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Define underemployment |
Employment in a job that requires less requirements or education than the individual has earned |
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What is the youth delayed start? |
Difficulty finding a job following education |
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Define precarious employment |
Temporary, insecure, unprotected, poorly paid work |
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Survival capital |
Resources and opportunities people in modern urban society need to survive/thrive |
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Common sense perspective: |
People earn what they deserve to earn. Those who work harder will earn higher pay and more job opportunities |
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Functionalism: employment |
Employment inequality is necessary for the functioning of society. High rewards motivate people to work hard. |
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Conflict theory: employment |
Ruling class does anything to stay at the top. People may have trouble gaining employment or climbing the income ladder |
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Feminism: employment |
Men have higher level and higher paying job opportunities. Women are expected to perform unpaid domestic labour |
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Human capital social |
Education credentials, job experience, skills |
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Social capital |
Persons social contacts/relationships |
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Cultural capital |
Aspects of self presentation, clothing |
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Example of precarious work: |
Part time work |
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The working poor |
Low income individuals who may work part time jobs or other precarious work |
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Immigrants + employment : deprofessionalization |
Tendency for immigrants to secure jobs that don’t reflect their qualifications and experience |
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Second shift |
Aka social reproduction or double shift - unpaid work that is not framed as actual work |
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Glass ceiling |
Barriers to the advancement of a qualified person within an organization (white women) |
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Concrete ceiling |
Barriers to the advancement of black women from moving upward in the employment hierarchy |
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Sticky floor |
Traps women and minorities at the lower levels of an organization regardless of their qualifications |
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Temporary foreign workers |
Companies hire workers from other countries to fill their labour shortages. Once worker contract is up they must leave the country |
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Define debt bondage |
Individual forced to work to pay off a debt |
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Non status worker wha |
Working in nation without official documentation. Often paid under the table and underpaid. Vulnerable to exploitation and deportation |
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What are the 3D jobs many non status workers do? |
Dirty Dangerous Degrading |
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Racial stratification |
Membership of an individual to a race becomes the basis for unequal treatment in society |
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Racialized people and unemployment: |
- high unemployment rates - more likely to be employed in precarious work - live in care programs - racialized women paid less than racialized men |
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Glass ceiling |
Barriers to the advancement of a qualified person within an organization (white women) but they still have the chance to break through |
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Employment feminization |
Increasing presence and influence of women in previously male dominated jobs |
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productive work vs social reproduction |
Productive work = work by men such as producing goods Social reproduction = work by women such as planning, cooking, cleaning, childcare |
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Tokenism |
Recruiting small number of people from underrepresented groups in order to give appearance of sexual or racial equality within a workforce |
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Domestic work is seen as ______ _____. |
“Feminized work” or “naturally feminine” |
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Myth about domestic work |
Women receive emotional compensation from the job so they should not be paid for the work |
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Stratified otherization |
Different categories of foreign workers |
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Glass escalator ageism |
Men in female dominated professions experience preferential hiring and promotions |
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Ageism |
Discrimination of individual based on their age |
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Indigenous have higher unemployment than non-indigenous. Why is this? |
1. Family structure 2. Access to education 3. Structural discrimination |
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Define social mobility |
Ability of individuals to move within a social hierarchy |
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What is the process racialized people may use to increase the likelihood of a job callback? |
Resume whitening |
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Women’s work is often seen as: (3 U’s) |
Under paid, under valued, under skilled |
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What are domestic workers |
Workers who perform work for/in private households |
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Female migrant workers who typically leave their families to work domestic jobs for another family = |
Mother domestics |
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Reason for becoming a domestic worker |
- Social reproduction responsibilities - feel like lacking other skills |
