Reading Sociology: Canadian Perspectives

by Patrizia Albanese and Lorne Tepperman

• ISBN13: 9780199020041
• ISBN10: 0199020043
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2017-01-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Published in partnership with the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA), Reading Sociology offers students a wide-ranging and accessible overview of current sociological research in Canada. With over 65 expertly-edited selections by both well-known and up-and-coming CSA members, the reader is organized into 16 thematic parts that explore the main areas of sociological inquiry - from inequality, education, and deviance to politics and mass media. This third edition is composed entirely of new readings and includes a brand new cross-referencing guide to help instructors and students make conceptual connections between the readings.

Author Biography

Patrizia Albanese, Professor, Department of Sociology, Ryerson University,Lorne Tepperman, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto,Emily Alexander, Independent Social Researcher,

Table of Contents

Making Connections
Introduction
Contributors
PART 1 WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY? THEORY AND METHODS
1. Macro Sociology: Its Evolution and Relevance to Canada, Harry H. Hiller
2. "Breaking With Inside Experience": Dilemmas in Negotiating Practical Knowledge and Scholarly Knowledge in Research with Young People, Jacqueline Kennelly, Valerie Stam, and Lynette Schick
3. Reimagining the Sociological Imagination: Including the Brain, Environment and Culture, Ralph Matthews
4. What Can a Theorist Do?, Christopher Powell
5. The Debate About Accident Proneness, Lorne Tepperman and Nicole Meredith
6. French Language Sociology in Quebec, Jean-Philippe Warren
PART 2 CULTURE AND CULTURE CHANGE
7. Can Pierre Bourdieu Give Us the Blues?, Bruce Curtis
8. The Social Lives of Statues, Tonya K. Davidson
9. Starting With a Squish: An Institutional Ethnography of Canada's Art World, Janna Klostermann
10. The Art and Artist behind Your Tattoo: A Case Study of Two Tattoo Artists, Chris William Martin
PART 3 SOCIALIZATION
11. Children's Literature and Racism in Canada, Xiaobei Chen
12. Sociology and the Human-Animal Bond, Colleen Anne Dell
13. Revisiting the "Do Men Mother?" Question: Temporality, Performativity, Diffractive Readings, and Cat's Cradles, Andrea Doucet
14. The Summer Reading Blues: Children's Accounts of Summer Literacy Practices, Cathlene Hillier and Janice Aurini
PART 4 DEVIANCE AND CRIME
15. Intimacy, Geography, and Justice, Myrna Dawson
16. Modern Superstition and Moderate Risk and Problem Slot Machine Gamblers, Tara Hahmann
17. Cyber-Psychopathy: An Expression of Dark E-Personality, Andrew D. Nevin
18. Critical Sociology and Criminal Accusation, George Pavlich
19. Spaces, Places, and States of Mind: A Study of Two Homeless Communities, Eric P. Weissman
PART 5 SOCIAL INEQUALITY
20. Working for Care; Caring for Work, Pat Armstrong
21. The Living Wage Movement in Canada: Resisting the Low-Wage Economy, Bryan Evans and Carlo Fanelli
22. Freedom as an Ethical Principle for Sociology, Carmen Grillo
23. Inequality, Demographics, and the New World Order, Susan McDaniel
PART 6 GENDER AND SEXUALITY
24. Sexual Fields, Adam Green
25. First But Not a Founder: Annie Marion MacLean and the History and Institutionalization of Canadian Sociology, Mervyn Horgan and Saara Liinamaa
26. Intimacies and Commodification in Human Milk Exchange: Transforming Families and Kinship, Robyn Lee
27. Committing Sociology: The Challenges Facing Activist Scholarship, Meg Luxton
PART 7 RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS
28. Decolonizing Canada, Reconciling with Indigenous Peoples: How Settler "Allies" Conceive of Their Roles and Goals, Jeff Denis and Kerry Bailey
29. Synthesizing the Canadian Colonial State Field with Contemporary Organizational Network Perspectives, Adam Howe
30. How Does Sociology Help Us to Understand and Combat Racism in Canada?, Lori Wilkinson
31. Us, Them, and Others: Canadian Multiculturalism and a Sociology of Pluralist Group Formation, Elke Winter
PART 8 YOUTH AND FAMILIES
32. "I knew what I was getting into": A Study of Youth Labour in the Context of a Canadian Tree-Planting Camp, Fabrizio Antonelli and Taylor Mooney
33. How Do Majority and Minority Canadian Youth See Themselves Participating in Public Life?, L. Alison Molina-Giron
34. Understanding the Changing Nature of Relationships in Aging Canadian Families, Karen M. Kobayashi and Mushira M. Khan
35. Helping and Receiving Help From Neighbours: A Look at the Canadian and the Foreign-Born, Fernando Mata
36. The "Quiet" Deconstruction: The Progressive Dismantling of Quebec's Early Childhood Education and Care System, Sofie Mathieu
PART 9 EDUCATION
37. Life at Armyville High School: A Glimpse into How Adolescents Experienced the Afghanistan Missions, Deborah Harrison and Patrizia Albanese
38. The African Brain Drain and the Social Impact of Family Separation, Toju Maria Boyo
39. The Creative Sociologist: Drivers of Innovative Strategies to Meet the Needs of the New Inorganic Global Economy, J. S. Frideres
40. Aboriginal Education in Canada: Opportunities and Barriers, Terry Wotherspoon
PART 10 WORK AND THE ECONOMY
41. Race and the Labour Market Integration of Second-Generation Young Adults, Monica Boyd
42. Productivity and Prosperity: A Study in the Sociology of Ideas, Karen Foster
43. Underemployment in Advanced Capitalism: Patterns and Prospects, D.W. Livingstone
44. Unemployment Experience of Women in Toronto and Halifax, Leslie Nichols
45. Transitioning into Adulthood: Disability, Barriers, and Accessibility, Cornelia Schneider
PART 11 HEALTH AND CARE
46. The Converging Gender Trends in Earning and Caring in Canada, Roderic Beaujot, Jianye Liu, and Zenaida Ravanera
47. Health Declines in Old Age, or Does It?, Neena L. Chappell and Margaret J. Penning
48. Deceased Organ Donation and the Other Site of Politics, Lindsey McKay
PART 12 RELIGION
49. Are Islam and Democracy Compatible?, Robert Brym, Robert Andersen, and Scott Milligan
50. "Building the New Jerusalem in Canada's green and pleasant land": The Social Gospel and the Roots of English-Language Academic Sociology in Canada, 1889-1921, Rick Helmes-Hayes
51. Keeping Up With the Martins: Prescribed Change, Homogeneity, and Cultural Continuity Among the Old Order Mennonites, Steven Kleinknecht
52. The Status of Muslim Minorities during the War on Terror, Jeffrey G. Reitz
PART 13 POLITICS
53. Why Sociologists Should Care About Public Policy, Daniel Beland
54. The Sociology of Human Rights, Dominique Clement
55. Making Us Ignorant: Canadian Science Policy under a Neo-Conservative Regime, Margrit Eichler
56. Liberty Aspiration and Political Behaviours, Reza Nakhaie
PART 14 SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
57. Critical Intervention: Black Women (Re)defining Feminist Resistance, Activism and Empowerment in Feminist Organizing within Ontario, Jacqueline Benn-John
58. Factors Leading to Political Violence. Taxi Driving in Montreal, Jean-Philippe Warren
59. Fighting Back and Building Another World: Contention in the Twenty-First Century, Lesley J. Wood
PART 15 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND GOVERNMENT
60. The Ambivalence of Diplomacy, Mike Follert
61. Policy Networks, Policy Transfers, and Recommodification: Actors and Mechanisms of Labour Policy Formation in Post-Yugoslav Countries, Ivanka Knezevic
62. Political Engagement through Civic Transnationalism: Romanian Diasporas and the 2014 Presidential Elections, Laura Visan
63. Liberalizing Versus Tightening Citizenship Rules in Germany and Canada: A Question of Party Platforms and Politics?, Elke Winter and Anke Patzelt
PART 16 TECHNOLOGY AND MASS MEDIA
64. The Missing "V" of Big Data: Surveillance and Vulnerability, David Lyon
65. Algorithmic Sociology: An Emerging Field, Jonathan Roberge and Thomas Crosbie
66. (Re)defining Climate Change as a Cultural Phenomenon, Mihai Sarbu
67. The Endangered Arctic, the Arctic as Resource Frontier: Canadian News Media Narratives of Climate Change and the North, Mark C.J. Stoddart and Jillian Smith
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