Reading Sociology: Canadian Perspectives Book

Introduction
Contributors
PART I What is Sociology? Theories & Research Methods
1. Intellectual Citizenship and Incarnation: A Reply to Stanley Fish
Peter Eglin
2. Anticipating Burawoy: John Porter's Public Sociology
Rick Helmes-Hayes
3. Indigenous Spaces in Sociology
Patricia D. McGuire
4. Reading Reflexively
Bruce Curtis
5. Francophone and Anglophone Sociologists in Canada: Diverging, Converging, or Parallel Trends?
Jean-Philippe Warren
Questions for Critical Thought
PART II Culture
6. Maintaining Control? Masculinity and Internet Pornography
Steve Garlick
7. What a Girl Wants, What a Girl Needs: Examining Cultural Change and Ideas about Gender Equality in Relationship Self-Help Books, 1960-2009
8. The Bonds of Things
Stephen Harold Riggins
9. Nationalism from Below
Slobodan Drakulic
Questions for Critical Thought
PART III Socialization
10. Cyberspace and Men Who Have Sex with Men: Online Subcultures and Socialization
Anthony Lombardo
11. The Ecology of Drinking: Revisiting the Role of the Campus Environment on Students' Drinking Patterns
Nancy Beauregard
12. Duality and Diversity in the Lives of Immigrant Children: Rethinking the 'Problem of the Second Generation' in Light of Immigrant Autobiographies
Nedim Karakayali
13. '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
Questions for Critical Thought
PART IV Deviance
14. Emotions Contests and Reflexivity in the News: Examining Discourse on Youth Crime in Canada
Michael C. Adorjan
15. Dirty Harry and the Station Queens: A Mertonian Analysis of Police Deviance
Patrick F. Parnaby and Myra Leyden
16. Legislative Approaches to Prostitution: A Critical Introduction
Frances Shaver
17. Moral Panic and the Nasty Girl
Dany Lacombe and Christie Barron
Questions for Critical Thought
PART V Families
18. 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
19. Keeping the Family Intact: The Lived Experience of Sheltered Homeless Families
Annette Tezli
20. Love and Arranged-Marriage in India Today: Negotiating Adulthood
Nancy S. Netting
21. Gender Equality and Gender Differences: Parenting, Habitus, and Embodiment (The 2008 Porter Lecture)
Andrea Doucet
Questions for Critical Thought
PART VI Education
22. The Rise of the 'Research' University: Gendered Outcomes
Maureen Baker
23. Education, Ethnonationalism, and Non-Violence in Quebec
Matthew Lange
24. From International Universities to Diverse Local Communities? International Students in Halifax and Beyond
Sinziana Chira
25. Segregation versus Self-Determination: A Black-and-White Debate on Canada's First Africentric School
Shaun Chen
Questions for Critical Thought
PART VII Work
26. 'Suck It Up Buttercup': A Culture of Acceptable Workplace Violence in Group Homes
Reuben N. Roth
27. 'Let's Be Friends': Working within an Accountability Circuit
Marjorie DeVault, Murali Venkatesh, and Frank Ridzi
28. Profession: A Useful Concept for Sociological Analysis?
Tracey L. Adams
29. 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
Questions for Critical Thought
PART VIII Aging & Life Course
30. Childlessness and Socio-Economic Characteristics: What Does the Canadian 2006 General Social Survey Tell Us?
Zenaida Ravanera and Roderic Beaujot
31. 'Choice' in Filial Care Work: Moving beyond a Dichotomy
Laura M. Funk and Karen M. Kobayashi
32. From Divergence to Convergence: The Sex Differential in Life Expectancy in Canada, 1971-2000
Frank Trovato and Nirannanilathu Lalu
Questions for Critical Thought
PART IX Health
33. Biocitizenship and Mental Health in a Canadian Context
Jeff Stepnisky
34. A Four Year (1996-2000) Analysis of Social Capital and Health Status of Canadians: The Difference that Love Makes
Reza Nakhaie and Robert Arnold
35. Menstruation by Choice: The Framing of a Controversial Issue
Carol Berenson
36. Placentations
Rebecca Scott
Questions for Critical Thought
PART X Inequality & Stratification
37. Pay Equity: Yesterday's Issue?
Pat Armstrong
38. Red Zones, Empty Alleys, and Giant TVs: Low-Income Youths' Spatial Account of Olympic Host Cities
Jacqueline Kennelly
39. Parents and Traffic Safety: Unequal Risk and Responsibilities to and from School
Arlene Tigar McLaren and Sylvia Parusel
40. Municipal Malaise: Neoliberal Urbanism in Canada
Justin Paulson and Carlo Fanelli
Questions for Critical Thought
PART XI Sex & Gender
41. Gold Diggers and Moms: Representations of Women's Identities in Fort McMurray in Chatelaine
Sara O'Shaughnessy
42. Hyper-Heterosexualitzation, Masculinity and HIV/AIDS Challenges
Wesley Crichlow
43. Contested Imaginaries Reading Muslim Women and Muslim Women Reading Back: Trasnational Feminist Reading Practices, Pedagogy and Ethical Concerns
Lisa Taylor
44. Spinsters and Suspects: Gender and Moral Citizenship in Poison Pen Mystery Novels
Riley Olstead and Kathy Bischoping
45. Fleshy Histories: Fatness, Sex/Gender, and the Medicalized Body in the Nineteenth Century
Kristin A. Hardy
Questions for Critical Thought
PART XII Immigration, Race, & Ethnicity
46. Bridging Understandings: Anishinaabe and White Responses to the Residential School Apology and Prospects for Reconciliation
Jeffrey S. Denis
47. The Informal Settlement Sector: Broadening the Lens to Understand Newcomer Integration In Hamilton
Vic Satzewich and William Shaffir
48. The New Relationship between Social Sciences and the Indigenous Peoples of Canada
Cora J. Voyageur
49. Changing Canadian Immigration and Visa Worker Programs: Implications for Nation Building and Social Cohesion
Alan Simmons
50. Voting across Immigrant Generations
Monica Boyd and Emily Laxer
Questions for Critical Thought
PART XIII Globalization
51. Policing Terrorism in the Post- 9/11 Era: Critical Challenges and Concerns
Claudio Colaguori and Carlos Torres
52. Infectious Disease, Environmental Change and Social Control
Harris Ali
53. Does a Place Like This Still Matter? Remaking Economic Identity in Post-Resource Communities
Nathan Young
54. United Nations and Early Postwar Development: Assembling World Order
Suzan Ilcan and Rob Aitken
Questions for Critical Thought
PART XIV States & Government
55. Counting, Caste and Confusion during Census Enumeration in Colonial India
Kevin Walby and Michael Haan
56. Canada's Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-1982
Dominique Clement
57. The Economy and Public Opinion on Welfare Spending in Canada
Robert Andersen and Josh Curtis
58. Social Europe and Eastern Europe: Post-Socialist Scholars Grapple with New Models of Social Policy
Ivanka Knezevic
Questions for Critical Thought
PART XV Environment
59. 'How Can You Decide about Us without Us?': A Canadian Catastrophe in Copenhagen
Sherrie Steiner
60. The Production Modernity in Classic American Whale Hunting
Katja Neves
61. '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
62. Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology in Canada: Paradoxes and Conflicts of a Closed System
Wilhelm Peekhaus
63. The Ontological Geopolitics of Polar Ice
Mark Vardy
Questions for Critical Thought
PART XVI Media
64. Fallen Women and Rescued Girls: Social Stigma and Media Narratives of the Sex Industry in Victoria, British Columbia, 1980-2005
Helga Kristin Hallgrimsdottir, Cecilia Benoit, and Rachel Phillips
65. Feminist Activists On-line: A Study of the PAR-L Research Network
Ollivier Michele, Wendy Robbins, Diane Beauregard, Jennifer Brayton, and Genevieve Sauve
66. 'Keeping Young Minds Sharp': Children's Cognitive Stimulation and the Rise of Parenting Magazines, 1959-2003
Linda Quirke
67. Packaging Protest: Media Coverage of Indigenous People's Collective Action
Rima Wilkes, Catherine Corrigall-Brown, and Daniel J. Myers
Questions for Critical Thought
Glossary
Acknowledgements