Recently added articles from The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology:
Theorizing Surveillance: The Panopticon and Beyond
Feb 01, 2008; ... DAVID LYON (ed.), Theorizing Surveillance: The Panopticon and Beyond. Portland, OR: Willan Publishing, 2006, xui+336 p., Index. Within the field of surveillance studies, Michel Foucault's panopticon metaphor has prevailed as a conceptual exemplar for understanding modern forms of social ...
American Empires: Past and Present*
Feb 01, 2008; ... L'auteur établit une typologie des empires. Qu'ils soient «directs» ou «indirects», les empires possèdent nécessairement des colonies. Ce n'est pas le cas des empires «informels», mais ceux-ci peuvent être divisés en trois sous-types: les empires «canonniers», «mandataires» et d' «ajustement ...
Editor's Note
Feb 01, 2008; ... This issue, Volume 45:1, represents a new beginning. It is the first issue to appear under the title Canadian Review of Sociology reflecting the decision nearly 2 years ago by the members of the former Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association to change its name to the Canadian ...
The Canada Research Chairs Program and Social Science Reward Structures
Feb 01, 2008; ... Les auteurs analysent les comptes rendus des publications et des citations des Chaires de recherche du Canada en sociologie, en science politique et en économie au cours des cinq années pendant lesquelles le programme s'est poursuivi. Ils les comparent à des échantillons aléatoires de comptes ...
Editor's Note.
Feb 01, 2008; ... This issue, Volume 45:1, represents a new beginning. It is the first issue to appear under the title Canadian Review of Sociology reflecting the decision nearly 2 years ago by the members of the former Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association to change its name to the Canadian ...
American empires: past and present*.(Critical essay)
Feb 01, 2008; ... OF COURSE, MANY AMERICANS DENY THEY ever had an empire. But this is not unique. So did many nineteenth-century Brits, for whom the term also possessed negative connotations. They said they were only spreading freedom around the world. Since British history textbooks of the time had as ...
A socioeconomic scale for Canada: measuring occupational status from the census.(Critical essay)
Feb 01, 2008; ... THE CONCEPTUAL AND EMPIRICAL CENTRALITY OF occupations in many domains of sociology, along with the inclusion of occupational information in other social science fields, has fueled the development of occupation-based measures of socioeconomic status. The latter is a term for the relative ...
The Canada research chairs program and social science reward structures.
Feb 01, 2008; ... FOLLOWING A DECADE OF SUBSTANTIAL FUNDING cutbacks in universities throughout the 1990s, the Canadian government introduced the Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) program in 1999. After being fully implemented in 2006, the program endows 2000 research chairs in Canadian universities (Polster ...
David Lyon (ed.), Theorizing Surveillance: The Panopticon and Beyond.(Book review)
Feb 01, 2008; ... DAVID LYON (ed.), Theorizing Surveillance: The Panopticon and Beyond. Portland, OR: Willan Publishing, 2006, xiii+ 336 p., Index. Within the field of surveillance studies, Michel Foucault's panopticon metaphor has prevailed as a conceptual exemplar for understanding modern forms ...
Editor's note/Mot du redacteur.(Editorial)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Forty years ago, when I began my career as a sociologist, The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology / Revue canadienne de sociologie et d'anthropologie (CRSA/RCSA) was in its infancy. Before then, those sociologists and anthropologists who wished to publish their work in a refereed ...
Gouverner l'innovation, entre sciences dures et arts plastiques : le consortium interuniversitaire Hexagram (Montreal, Canada) *.
Nov 01, 2007; ... DE NOMBREUX AUTEURS ONT MIS EN PERSPECTIVE, a l'echelle internationale, les enjeux des politiques de revitalisation economique, urbaine et sociale axees sur la promotion d'une innovation portee par une << classe creative >> (Caves, 2000; Florida, 2002) parmi laquelle l'artiste occupe ...
Mobilization of personal social networks and institutional resources of private entrepreneurs in China *.
Nov 01, 2007; ... SINCE THE CHINESE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT allowed the establishment of small private businesses (getihu) in 1978, the number of private businesses in the country has grown exponentially. This unprecedented rapid growth of private businesses has become the central machine that sustains the ...
Hospital volunteers and carework *.
Nov 01, 2007; ... THIS PAPER DESCRIBES THE CAREWORK performed by volunteers in four large teaching hospitals in Alberta, Canada. Carework encompasses and integrates "caring for" (instrumental tasks) and "caring about" (affective labour) (Abel and Nelson, 1990; Graham, 1983). Whether paid or unpaid, carework ...
Negotiating the dependency/nurturance tightrope: dilemmas of motherhood and disability *.
Nov 01, 2007; ... WESTERN NORMS CONCERNING MOTHERHOOD AND FEMINITY offer women a tightrope upon which to balance dependency and nurturance. On the one hand, these norms imply that good women should be dependent, so long as that dependency is evidenced through a relationship with a male provider (Fraser and ...
Jean Baudrillard, The Conspiracy of Art.(Utopia Deferred: Writings for Utopie )(Book review)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Jean Baudrillard, The Conspiracy of Art. Edited by Sylvere Lotringer. New York: Semiotext(e)/MIT Press, 2005, 246 p., index. Jean Baudrillard, Utopia Deferred: Writings for Utopie (1967-1978). Edited by Sylvere Lotringer and translated by Stuart Kendall. New York: ...
Editor's Note/Mot du rédacteur
Nov 01, 2007; ... Forty years ago, when I began my career as a sociologist, The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology I Revue canadienne de sociologie et d'anthropologie (CRSAJRCSA) was in its infancy. Before then, those sociologists and anthropologists who wished to publish their work in a refereed ...
Gouverner l'innovation, entre sciences dures et arts plastiques : le consortium interuniversitaire Hexagram (Montréal, Canada)*
Nov 01, 2007; ... In the academic stream of technological arts, the national systems of innovation are involved in a reconfiguration of research and development organizations, which are aimed at marketing hybrid products that are now concurrently oriented towards artistic presentation, technology transfer and an ...
The Conspiracy of Art/Utopia Deferred: Writings for Utopie (1967-1978)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Jean Baudrillard, The Conspiracy of Art. Edited by Sylvere Lotringer. New York: Semiotext(e)/MIT Press, 2005, 246 p., index. Jean Baudrillard, Utopia Deferred: Writings for Utopie (1967-1978). Edited by Sylvere Lotringer and translated by Stuart Kendall. New York: Semiotext(e)/MIT Press, ...
Hospital Volunteers and Carework*
Nov 01, 2007; ... L'auteure analyse les soins fournis par des bénévoles d'hôpitaux en utilisant des données d'entrevues, des descriptions de tâches et des statistiques concernant les bénévoles de quatre hôpitaux d'Alberta, Canada. Les employés des hôpitaux s'attendent à ce que les bénévoles fournissent des soins ...
Mobilization of Personal Social Networks and Institutional Resources of Private Entrepreneurs in China*
Nov 01, 2007; ... Les auteurs examinent les liens micro et macroscopiques dans l'étude de l'économie en transition, en analysant la façon dont les entrepreneurs mobilisent leurs réseaux sociaux personnels intégres à diverses institutions, afin de protéger leurs ressources d'affaires. Les résultats démontrent que ...