1. Ascribed statuses (age, ability, race, gender, class) in Canadian society can have a pronounced impact on a person's level of success, resulting in further social inequality. Fundamentally, there is a strong correlation between ascribed statuses and a person's:
2. a.Immigration status in Canada
3. b.Level of education
4. c.Nuptiality

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QUESTION 5

1. This ideology is the process by which immigrants adopt the language, values, norms, and worldview of the host culture. Something which all immigrants experience to an extent.
2. a.Pluralism
3. b.Stratification
4. c.Assimilation

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QUESTION 6

1. Structural-functionalism argues that inequality is positive and even necessary for the proper functioning of society. In this view, different income levels provide an incentive for the most able people in society to work the hardest to attain those jobs considered by society to be the most functionally important. One of the problems with structural-functionalism is that it does not take into account:
2. a.The impact of ethnicity, class, and gender on the creation and continuation of inequalities in society.
3. b.Interventionist approaches by the Canadian government to overcome the problems of regionalism.
4. c.The rates of morbidity across different regions in Canada.

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QUESTION 7

1. Despite its commitment to multiculturalism in recent decades, Canada's history is marked by a number of racist immigration policies, including the creation, in the early 20^thcentury, of a list of "non-preferred" countries that included:
2. a.Norway
3. b.China
4. c.The United States of America
5. d.All of the above

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QUESTION 8

1. According to Angelini and Broderick, this is one of three problems with attempting to define race based on biology:
3. a.It ignores rates of morbidity in the population that have sociological causes, not biological ones.
4. b.There is not enough accurate demographic data about race in Canada.
5. c.So much interbreeding has occurred between human populations that there are no "pure" races.

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QUESTION 9

1. A Marxist approach to regionalism considers regional economic inequality to be:
2. a.Potentially resolved through cross-referencing aggregations of fertility, nuptiality, mortality, and migration.
3. b.A natural outcome of the class and power differences in a society dominated by capitalism.
4. c.The result of Canadian policies that ignore the Multiculturalism Act of 1988.

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QUESTION 10

1. According to Grattan, the impact of globalization, diminishing union power, and changes in the workforce, are just some of the factors that have resulted in:
2. a.Bi-culturalism (British and French) being a dominant ideology in Canada.
3. b.Lower rates of nuptiality and fertility in the Canadian population in the 21^stcentury.
4. c.Growing income inequality in Canada since the mid-1980s.