Understanding Our Society (Part 2): The Social Structure and Social Problems

Hello! Welcome to Greg’s InsighTalk. Today’s discussion is about the role of the social structure in the persistence of social problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KpaHewIWZw Before proceeding to our topic today, let us review the previous introductory discussion about understanding our society. Last time, we learned that to understand the culture and our community, we must realize the … Continue reading Understanding Our Society (Part 2): The Social Structure and Social Problems

Understanding Our Society (Part1): Sociology and the Social Facts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpjW4VectnU To begin with, one of the problematic experiences of people is understanding the society where they belong. It results in a stressful life and failures, by which they do not know where to position themselves, creating more complex problems. Look at the picture. People have different perceptions of certain things, on what is happening … Continue reading Understanding Our Society (Part1): Sociology and the Social Facts

What is Greg’s InsighTalk?

Hello everyone! I am Greg Jabal, and welcome to Greg's InsighTalk. This unique program will give you an insightful discussion about the happenings around us. Join me in all the arguments about social facts, which will give us a better understanding of social problems that usually give us stressful lives. Before anything else, let us … Continue reading What is Greg’s InsighTalk?

Non-Recognition of Credentials: A Barrier to the Successful Economic Integration of Canadian Immigrants

Introduction Globalization is a societal process of ongoing interconnected economic, cultural, social, and political changes. This globalization project mobilizes people of different backgrounds or demographics across national borders by transferring goods and services, technology and information, skills and knowledge, and the flow of investments. In addition, it allows cultural fusion from various regions of the … Continue reading Non-Recognition of Credentials: A Barrier to the Successful Economic Integration of Canadian Immigrants

Exclusion in Healthcare, Education, and Governance: Racializing and Positioning Indigenous Peoples at the Margins of Canadian Society

The assimilation project of the European settlers left a most excruciating legacy among Indigenous peoples in Canada. The afflictions brought by the residential schools reverberate from generation to generation of Indigenous peoples, exacerbated by discoveries of unmarked graves of children participants in various regions of the country. Such an event ruined the fabric of the … Continue reading Exclusion in Healthcare, Education, and Governance: Racializing and Positioning Indigenous Peoples at the Margins of Canadian Society