Measuring the mosaic an intellectual biography of John Porter / Rick Helmes-Hayes.

By:

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

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2010.; (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010).Description: 1 online resource (xix, 588 pages, 8. pages of plates : portraits)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781442698734

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HM479 .M437 2010

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Contents:

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.

Subject: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	HM479.668 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn759157341

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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.

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