Recently added articles from The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology:
Theorizing Surveillance: The Panopticon and Beyond
Feb 01, 2008; MacMillan, Trish H ... 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; Mann, Michael ... 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; Matthews, Ralph ... 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; Siler, Kyle S; McLaughlin, Neil ... 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; Matthews, Ralph ... 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; Mann, Michael ... 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; Boyd, Monica ... 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; Siler, Kyle S. ... 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; MacMillan, Trish H. ... 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 ...