Reading sociology : Canadian perspectives

Tepperman, Lorne, 1943- (Added Author). Kalyta, Angela. (Added Author). Canadian Sociological Association. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780195441291
Physical Description: print
xiv, 394 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Published in partnership with the Canadian Sociological Association / La société canadienne de sociologie".

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Intellectual citizenship and incarnations : a reply to Stanley Fish / Peter Eglin -- Anticipating Burawoy: John Porter's Public sociology / Rick Helmes-Hayes -- Indigenous spaces in sociology / Patricia D. McGuire -- Reading Reflexively / Bruce Curtis -- Francophone and Anglophone sociologists in Canada : diverging, converging, or parallel trends? / Jean-Philippe Warren -- Maintaining control? Masculinity and internet pornography / Steve Garlick -- What a girl wants, what a girl needs : examining cultural change and ideas about gender equality in relationship self-help books, 1960-2009 / Sarah Knudson -- The bonds of things / Stephen Harold Riggins -- Nationalism from below / Slobodan Drakulic -- Online interactions among men who have sex with men : situated performances and sexual education / Anthony Lombardo -- The ecology of drinking : revisiting the role of the campus environment on students' drinking patterns / Nancy Beauregard, Andrée Demers, and Louis Gliksman -- Duality and diversity in the lives of immigrant children : rethinking the 'problem of the second generation' in light of immigrant autobiographies / Nedim Karakayali -- 'Even if I don't know what I'm doing I can make it look like I know what I'm doing' : becoming a doctor in the 1990s / Brenda L. Beagan -- Emotions contests and reflexivity in the news : examining discourse on youth crime in Canada / Michael C. Adorjan -- Dirty Harry and the station queens : a Mertonian analysis of police deviance / Patrick F. Parnaby and Myra Leyden -- Legislative approaches to prostitution : a critical introduction / Frances Shaver -- Moral panic and the nasty girl / Dany Lacombe and Christie Barron -- The more things change...The more we need child care, on the fortieth anniversary of the report on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women / Patrizia Albanese -- Keeping the family intact - the lived experience of sheltered homeless families / Annette Tezli -- Love and arranged-marriage in India today : negotiating adulthood / Nancy S. Netting -- Gender equality and gender differences : parenting, habitus, and embodiment (The 2008 Porter Lecture) / Andrea Doucet -- The rise of the 'research university' : gendered outcomes / Maureen Baker -- Education, ethnonationalism, and non-violence in Quebec / Matthew Lange -- From international universities to diverse local communities? International students in Halifax and beyond / Sinziana Chira -- Segregation versus self-determination : a Black and White debate on Canada's first Africentric school / Shaun Chen -- 'Suck it up buttercup' : a culture of acceptable workplace violence in group homes / Reuben N. Roth -- 'Let's be friends' : working within an accountability circuit / Marjorie DeVault, Murali Venkatesh, and Frank Ridzi -- Profession : a useful concept for sociological analysis? / Tracey L. Adams -- Work hard, play hard? : a comparison of male and female lawyers' time in paid and unpaid work and participation in leisure activities / Jean Wallace and Marisa Young -- Childlessness and socio-economic characteristics : what does the Canadian 2006 General Social Survey tell us? / Zenaida Ravanera and Roderic Beaujot -- 'Choice' in filial care work : moving beyond a dichotomy / Laura M. Funk and Karen M. Kobayashi -- From divergence to convergence : the sex differential in life expectancy in Canada, 1971-2000 / Frank Trovato and Nirannanilathu Lalu -- Love and changes in health / Reza Nakhaie and Robert Arnold -- Menstruation by choice : the framing of a controversial issue / Carol Berenson -- Placentations / Rebecca Scott -- Pay equity : yesterday's issue? / Pat Armstrong -- Red zones, empty alleys, and giant TVs : low-income youths' spatial account of Olympic host cities / Jacqueline Kennelly -- Parents and traffic safety : unequal risk and responsibilities to and from school / Arlene Tigar McLaren and Sylvia Parusel -- Municipal malaise : Neo-liberal urbanism in Canada / Carlo Fanelli and Justin Paulson -- Gold diggers and moms : representations of women's identities in Fort McMurray in Chatelaine / Sara O'Shaughnessy -- Hyperheterosexualitzation, masculinity, and HIV/AIDS challenges / Wesley Crichlow -- Contested imaginaries : reading Muslim women and Muslim women reading back : transnational feminist reading practices, pedagogy and ethical concerns / Lisa Taylor -- Spinsters and suspects : gender and moral citizenship in poison pen mystery novels / Kathy Bischoping and Riley Olstead -- Fleshy histories : fatness, sex/gender, and the medicalized body in the nineteenth century / Kristin A. Hardy -- Bridging understandings : anishinaabe and white responses to the Residential School apology and prospects for reconciliation / Jeffrey S. Denis -- The informal settlement sector : broadening the lens to understand newcomer integration in Hamilton / Vic Satzewich and William Shaffir -- The new relationship between social sciences and the Indigenous Peoples of Canada / Cora J. Voyageur -- Changing Canadian immigration and visa worker programs : implications for nation building and social cohesion / Alan Simmons -- Voting across immigrant generations / Monica Boyd and Emily Laxer -- United Nations and early postwar development : assembling world order / Monica Boyd and Emily Laxer -- Policing terrorism in the post 9/11 era : critical challenges and concerns / Claudio Colaguori and Carlos Torres -- Infectious disease, environmental change, and social control / Harris Ali -- Does a place like this still matter? Remaking economic identity in post-resource communities / Nathan Young -- Counting, caste and confusion during census enumeration in colonial India / Kevin Walby and Michael Haan -- Canada's rights revolution : social movements and social change, 1937-1982 / Dominique Clément -- The economy and public opinion on welfare spending in Canada / Robert Andersen and Josh Curtis -- Social Europe and Eastern Europe : post-socialist scholars grapple with new models of social policy / Ivanka Knezevic -- 'How can you decide about us without us?' : a Canadian catastrophe in Copenhagen / Sherrie Steiner -- The production modernity in classic American whale hunting / Katja Neves -- 'Keep it wild, Keep it local' : comparing news media and the Internet as sites for environmental movement activism for Jumbo Pass, British Columbia / Mark C.J. Stoddart and Laura MacDonald -- Regulating agricultural biotechnology in Canada: paradoxes and conflicts of a closed system / Wilhelm Peekhaus -- The science and politics of Polar ice / Mark Vardy -- Fallen women and rescued girls : social stigma and media narratives of the sex industry in Victoria, British Columbia, from 1980 to 2005 / Helga Kristin ... [et al.] -- Feminist activists online : a study of the PAR-L research network / Michèle Ollivier ... [et al.] -- 'Keeping young minds sharp' : children's cognitive stimulation and the rise of parenting magazines, 1959-2003 / Linda Quirke -- Packaging protest : media coverage of Indigenous People's collective action / Rima Wilkes, Catherine Corrigall-Brown, and Daniel J. Myers.