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Author Helmes-Hayes, Richard C. (Richard Charles), 1951-

Title Measuring the mosaic : an intellectual biography of John Porter / Rick Helmes-Hayes
Published Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2010 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010)

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 588 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits
Contents Introduction -- Growing up in Vancouver and London, 1921-1941 -- The army years, 1941-1946 -- The LSE Years, 1946-1949 -- Canada and Carleton College, 1939-1963 -- The genesis of The vertical mosaic, 1949-1958 -- Crafting a classic, 1958-1965 -- The vertical mosaic : Canada as a flawed democracy -- Critical response to The vertical mosaic -- Canadian society and Canadian sociology in the 1960's and 70's -- Geneva, Ottawa, and Toronto, 1966-1969 -- Measuring educational opportunity, 1970-1979 -- Measuring social mobility, 1970-1979 -- The shift into academic administration, 1977-1979 -- Marion Porter, John Porter's intellectual partner -- Second thoughts : ruminations on social justice -- Afterword : duty, service, and mission
Summary Measuring the Mosaic is a comprehensive intellectual biography of John Porter (1921-1979), author of The Vertical Mosaic (1965), preeminent Canadian sociologist of his time, and one of Canada's most celebrated scholars
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-560) and index
Notes English
Subject Porter, John, 1921-1979.
Porter, John, 1921-1979. Vertical mosaic
Porter, John, 1921-1979
Sociology -- Canada
Sociologists -- Canada -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Sociologists
Sociology
Ottawa (Ont.) -- Biography
Canada
Ontario -- Ottawa
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442698734
144269873X
0802096484
9780802096487
1442698748
9781442698741