The Social standing of ethnic and racial groupings*

Abstract

L'article établi l'existence d'une échelle des groupes ethniques et raciales, selon leur position sociale, au Canada anglophone et francophone. Les données de l'étude étaient recueillies pendant une étude sur le prestige professionnel, utilisant une forme de question identique pour obtenir l'échelle ethnique et l'échelle professionnelle. On peut, donc, examiner si les évaluations des groupes ethniques et raciales démontrent moins de consensus que les évaluations des professions. This paper establishes the existence of a ranking of ethnic and racial groups, according to social standing, within English and French Canada. Since the data used in the study were collected as part of a national study of occupational prestige, and used an identical question format, it is possible to test whether the degree of consensus in this ranking is as great as that for the ranking of occupations.

Cognition and bilingualism: a reanalysis of studies

“…Although the child may be ridiculed for his accent (Bossard, 1945), this is only a part of the denial of status to his whole cultural identity and to his own self-esteem as a member of that cultural group (Singer, 1956;Paulston, 1975;Pineo, 1977). Writing of Eskimo children in the western Canadian arctic, Hobart and Brant note that: residential school children experience completely different worlds in their home communities and in the residential school ...…”

Vitality Perceptions and Language Attitudes: Some Canadian Data

“…Results from surveys of how ECs stereotype various ethnic groups in Canada can also be applied to the Hamilton setting. A number of studies have shown that ICs are stereotyped quite negatively relative to other Canadian ethnic groups such as ECs, French Canadian, Germans and Jews (Berry, Kalin & Taylor, 1977;Pineo, 1977). Taken together these elements show that the IC community has enjoyed less prestige than the EC Community in Hamilton.…”

“…The above patterns of results show that ICs remain the target of negative responses from ECs in Hamilton (cf. Berry et al 1977;Pineo, 1977).…”

Language and Ethnolinguistic Identity: The Bilingualism Question

“…Since the relationship between bilingualism and ethnolinguistic identity is stronger among francophones than among anglophones, one might reasonably suppose that this might be due to differences in power, wealth and prestige between these two languages groups -the proportion of francophone bilinguals in Canada is much higher, and there is no shortage of evidence that francophones constitute the subordinate group on each of these dimensions (Pineo 1976;Porter 1965;Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism 1969). If the differences in the strength of the relationship by mother-tongue group were due to the subordinate group status of the French, one would expect that there ought not to be much difference in the strength of this association among francophones in Quebec and francophones outside of Quebec, on the one hand, and among anglophones in Quebec and anglophones outside of Quebec, on the other.…”