Controversies in Canadian sociology
By: [edited by] M. Reza Nakhaie
Publisher: Thomson Nelson
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780176104689
Subjects: Textbooks; Social conditions; Sociology; Manuels d'enseignement superieur; Conditions sociales; Sociologie
Notes: Includes bibliographical references: p. 230-248.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction : Canadian-American cultural similarities and differences; title: Who owns democracy? Explaining the long-running debate over Canadian/American value differences / Michael P. Carroll; title: Rejoinder to "Who owns democracy" / James Curtis and Edward Grabb; title: 2. Introduction : socialization and dominant ideology in education; title: Socialization into dominant vs. counter ideology among university-educated Canadians / Douglas E. Baer and Ronald D. Lambert; title: The politics of Canadian social scientists : a comment on Baer and Lambert / Serge Guimond and Douglas L. Palmer; title: 3. Introduction : feminist theory and gender relations; title: Bridging feminist theory and research methodology / Janet Saltzman Chafetz; title: Methods, theory, and the practice of feminist research : a response to Janet Chafetz / Alexis J. Walker; title: 4. Introduction : deviance, crime, and racial profiling; title: Data, denials, and confusion : the racial profiling debate in Toronto / Scot Wortley and Julian Tanner; title: Inflammatory rhetoric on racial profiling can undermine police services / Thomas Gabor; title: 5. Introduction : family and responsible fathering; title: Responsible fathering : an overview and conceptual framework / William J. Doherty, Edward F. Kouneski, and Martha F. Erickson; title: Who is responsible for responsible fathering? / Alexis J. Walker and Lori A. McGraw; title: 6. Introduction : causes and consequences of social inequality; title: Differential effects of university and community college education on occupational status attainment in Ontario / Paul Ainsef, Fredrick D. Ashbury, and Anton H. Turrittin; title: Commentary and debate/commentaire et debat, Does school matter : an invited comment on Anisef, Ashbury, and Turrittin's "Differential effects of university and community college education on occupational status attainment in Ontario" / Neil Guppy; title: 7. Introduction : education and students'; title: A postmodern explanation of student consumerism in higher education / Michael Delucchi and William L. Smith; title: Education and the marketplace : conflicting arenas? Response to "A postmodern explanation of student consumerism in higher education" / Anne F. Eisenberg; title: 8. Introduction : power elites and ethnoracial relations; title: Trends in the ethnic origins of Canadian elites : the decline of the BRITS? / R. Ogmundson and J. McLaughlin; title: Vertical mosaic among the elites : the new imagery revisited / M. Reza Nakhaie; title: 9. Introduction : neoliberalism and health inequalities; title: Income inequality, social cohesion and the health status of populations : the role of neo-liberalism / David Coburn; title: Deeper than "Neoliberalism." A reply to David Coburn / Richard G. Wilkinson; title: 10. Introduction : state, civic engagement, and politics; title: Civic literacy and falling electoral turnout : the United Kingdom 1992-1997 / C. J. Pattie and R. J. Johnston; title: Newspaper readership and federal electoral participation in Canada / M. Reza Nakhaie; title: 11. Introduction : modern theorists meet their post-modern critics; title: Authority and incredulity : sociology between modernism and post-modernism / David Cheal; title: Comment of "Authority and incredulity" / Bonnie Fox; title: 12. Introduction : positivism and research methods; title: Positivism's twilight? / Bernd Baldus; title: Commentary and debate : Positivism's future-and sociology's / Gerhard Lenski.