John Porter

The Vertical Mosaic

An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada, 50th Anniversary Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Fifty years later, the book retains vast significance both for its powerful critique of social exclusivity in a country that prides itself on equality and diversity and for its influence on generations of sociological researchers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 50th Anniversary edition
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1074g
• ISBN-13: 9781442628571
• ISBN-10: 144262857X
• Artikelnr.: 42457278

Autorenporträt

John Porter (1921–1979), one of Canada’s leading sociologists, was a professor, dean, and academic vice-president at Carleton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Structure of Class
1. Class and Power: The Major Themes
2. Class, Mobility, and Migration
3. Ethnicity and Social Class
4. Classes and Incomes
5. Rural Decline and New Urban Strata
6. Social Class and Educational Opportunity
Part II: The Structure of Power
7. Elites and the Structure of Power
8. The Concentration of Economic Power
9. The Economic Elite and Social Structure
10. The Structure of Organized Labout
11. The Labour Elite
12. The Canadian Political System
13. The Political Elite
14. The Federal Bureaucracy
15. The Ideological System: The Mass Media
16. The Ideological System: The Higher Learning and the Clergy
17. Relations Between Elites
Appendixes
1. Class and Social Structure: Tables and Figures
2. The Concentration of Economic Power
3. How the Other Elites Were Selected