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Article: Vertical mosaic among the elites: the new imagery revisited.
- Article from:
- The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
- Article date:
- February 1, 1997
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THE OVER-REPRESENTATION of British and the under-representation of French and "other" ethnic groups amongst Canadian elites has been a part of the Canadian academic consciousness since the publication of Porter's Vertical Mosaic (1965), Clement's Canadian Corporate Elite (1975) and Olsen's State Elite (1980). Recently, in a series of articles and commentary, Ogmundson (1990; 1992; 1993) and Ogmundson and McLaughlin (1992; 1994) have raised doubts about the "verisimilitude" of the earlier data, suggesting that Canadian students and scholars should "revise" and "abandon" conventional wisdom regarding British dominance in Canadian elites. Moreover, they have provided new data ...