Social Inequality In Canada

Social inequalities exist within any prosperous community. Often caused by the lack of education and cultural influence, social inequality is “A condition in which members of society have differing amounts of wealth, prestige or power.” (Schaefer & Haaland 2015 pg 21) The lack of education stops and closes many doors to be self-sufficient. For this reason many opportunities and options that may help a person get out of social inequality are lost. Cultural influences play a major role in the inequalities that a person might have to face in society. Some cultures either refuse to adapt to modern ways of life and the evolving way people behave in society. In other cases some cultures face culture lag which is, “The period of maladjustment …show more content…
Canada is home to large diverse groups of people. Canada is a country where many people of different racial and ethnical backgrounds all live in peace, there are and have been times where differences have been brought up and people of a particular group have been discriminated against. Historically in the past aboriginal people have been greatly discriminated against and have faced racial inequality, “Aboriginal children were taken from their homes and placed in schools far from their families” (Schaefer & Haaland 2015 pg 169) this was done to assimilate the aboriginal people into the dominant ideology and to completely remove aboriginal culture from Canadian society. As a matter of fact oppressors become successful and “Approximately 80,000 former Indian Residential Schools system are left with a legacy of trauma” (Schaefer & Haaland 2015 pg 169). Similarly in Brazil, when the Portuguese took over the country they became the dominant group of people ruling over the indigenous people of Brazil. Although their culture had been survived as 0.47 percent of Brazils population, there culture is at risk after, “Mining, logging, oil drilling, and agriculture have encroached on their land and their settlements” (Schaefer & Haaland 2015 pg 167) The aboriginals of Brazil were granted land in the nineteenth century however they got much less then what they were supposed to receive, according …show more content…
Generally both men and women have both been given different roles in society. Women are “ Portrayed as models, nurses, secretaries” (Schaefer & Haaland 2015 pg 182) and are often given the role to take care of household life and kids, whereas the men gender roles are identified with, anti-feminine, success element, aggressive element, sexual element and self-reliant element. (Schaefer & Haaland 2015 pg 182). These stereotypes can often been seen on television, through family, peers and the media. According to the cross cultural perspective culture, religion and the government also have a great hand in the gender stratification that socializes gender roles within individuals. In Canada, women through education have considerably been able to establish a space for them self’s that no longer only associates them with household activities or as a caregiver. However despite many women entering the job market, many find their option still restricted to only “women’s” job. In 2009 women accounted for 80 percent of all health related jobs, 57.5 percent of all sales and services jobs, one half of paid labour force in Canada, 40 percent in managerial occupations, 25 percent in natural and applied science and related occupations and 7.4 percent in trades, transport and equipment.( Schaefer & Haaland 2015 pg 191) Women, especially from visible minority groups, are often discriminated from male-dominated

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