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Week 7/8

Week 7/8. Putting MC to Work: Institutional Accommodation. Multicultural Challenges. Create an inclusive Canada - “integrated, socially cohesive Canada” Create accommodative institutions

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Week 7/8

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  1. Week 7/8 Putting MC to Work: Institutional Accommodation

  2. Multicultural Challenges • Create an inclusive Canada - “integrated, socially cohesive Canada” • Create accommodative institutions “make institutions more responsive to the needs/disadvantages of Canada’s diverse population to ensure no one is excluded From Annual Report, MC, 2009/2010

  3. Institutional Accommodation or Inclusion/inclusivity • Definition • Process + framework • adjusting institutional design, rules, operation, climate, rewards to reasonably accommodate minority disadvantages • to make workplace more reflective, respective, responsive (both more neutral yet accommodative) • Creating a service that is available, accessible, appropriate

  4. Reasonable Accommodation • Doing what is workable, necessary, and fair • Within limits • Without undue hardship • Reactive + proactive

  5. Problematizing the concept of institutional Accommodation • What is social exclusion? shut out of participation resulting in discrimination/marginal/alienation • What is social inclusion? - ensure no one is excluded for reasons beyond control - treat everyone the same or different everyone differently? * Is inclusivity about changing attitudes or structures? * Is it about colour blindness/institutional neutrality or about incorporating as much diversity as possible

  6. Types of Institutional Accommodation

  7. Components and barriers

  8. Models of Institutional Accommodation

  9. Continuum of Institutional Accommodation

  10. Media, Minorities, & Inclusivity • Why are media important? • What is the problem? • How is problem expressed? • Explaining why problem exists? - attitudes (prejudice/racism) - structure of media - media as soft propaganda • Is there still a problem? - entertainment vs news

  11. Media Life • Powerful (we live in media, not with media) • Public discourse, agenda setting, role modelling • Preliminary/Only point of contact • Media framing (organize info to draw attention to encourage preferred reading consistent with media bias) * Media Not Neutral but ….

  12. Media Framing of Minorities

  13. Coverage of Minority Diversity • Globe and NP headlines from 2009-10 • Globe = 383 headlines = +53, -255 • NP = 417 headlines = +25, -311 TOTAL +10%. - 70%

  14. Inclusivizing Education • Monocultural Education • Multicultural Education as Inclusive Education • Types of MC Education • Anti Racist education (vs MCE)

  15. MC Education

  16. Test no 1 • Place – here • Time 7-9 Wed, Nov 7 • Snow date – nov 14 • Content – class material + text (ch 1, 9, 10, 11) • Format – MC + Short Answers

  17. Sample Questions • MC 1 What sociological dimension is emphasized in this course? a) social b) cultural c) historical d) economic • Which of the following is NOT a sociological perspective for studying REA relations? a) functionalism b) conflict c) symbolic d) pluralism • Short Answer (3 sentences each) 1 Symbolic interactionist approach to multiculturalism 2 Conflict theory: Marxist vs Feminist

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