Aboriginal Conditions

Research as a Foundation for Public Policy
Herausgeber: White, Jerry P

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Produktbeschreibung

Jerry White is Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Western Ontario. Paul Maxim is Associate Dean (Research) at the University of Western Ontario, and Dan Beavon is Director of the Strategic Research and Analysis Directorate, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9780774810227
• ISBN-10: 077481022X
• Artikelnr.: 21867829

Autorenporträt

Jerry White is Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Western Ontario. Paul Maxim is Associate Dean (Research) at the University of Western Ontario, and Dan Beavon is Director of the Strategic Research and Analysis Directorate, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

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Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Focus of Aboriginal Conditions / Jerry P.White
 
Part 1: Thinking Outside the Box: Building Models Based onCommunities /
Jerry P. White
1. Social Capital, Social Cohesion, and Population Outcomes inCanada's
First Nations Communities / Jerry P. White and PaulS. Maxim
 
Part 2: The Limits of Our Knowledge and the Need to RefineUnderstandings /
Jerry P. White
2. Perils and Pitfalls of Aboriginal Demography: Lessons Learnedfrom the
RCAP Projections / Don Kerr, Eric Guimond, and Mary JaneNorris
3. Impacts of the 1985 Amendments to the Indian Act on First
NationsPopulations / Stewart Clatworthy
4. Changing Ethnicity: The Concept of Ethnic Drifters / EricGuimond
5 . Aboriginal Mobility and Migration Patterns and the PolicyImplications /
Mary Jane Norris, Marty Cooke, and StewartClatworthy
 
Part 3: Confronting Culture with Science: Language andPublic Policy /
Jerry P. White
6 . Aboriginal Language Retention and Socio-Economic Development:Theory and
Practice / Erin O'Sullivan
7. Aboriginal Language Transmission and Maintenance in Families:Results of
an Intergenerational and Gender-Based Analysis for Canada,1996 / Mary Jane
Norris and Karen MacCon
 
Part 4: Measuring and Predicting Capacity and Development /Jerry P. White
8. An Application of the United Nations Human Development Index
toRegistered Indians in Canada, 1996 / Daniel Beavon and MartinCooke
9. Dispersion and Polarization of Income among Aboriginal andNon-Aboriginal
Canadians / Paul S. Maxim, Jerry P. White, and DanBeavon
10. Toward an Index of Community Capacity: Predicting CommunityPotential
for Successful Program Transfer / Paul S. Maxim and JerryP. White
 
Conclusion: The Research-Policy Nexus -- What Have We Learned? /Jerry P.
White
Notes on Contributors
Index