The Vertical Mosaic : : An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada / / John Porter.
This book looks at two important aspects in Canadian society: its class structure and the composition of its elites or power holding groups. A recurring theme in the analysis of both class and elite groups is that Canada has found itself in the middle of the twentieth century with inadequate institu...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1965 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (626 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Part I: The Structure of Class
- 1. Class and Power: The Major Themes
- 2. Class, Mobility, and Migration
- 3. Ethnicity and Social Class
- 4. Classes and Incomes
- 5. Rural Decline and New Urban Strata
- 6. Social Class and Educational Opportunity
- Part II: The Structure of Power
- 7. Elites and the Structure of Power
- 8. The Concentration of Economic Power
- 9. The Economic Elite and Social Structure
- 10. The Structure of Organized Labour
- 11. The Labour Elite
- 12. The Canadian Political System
- 13. The Political Elite
- 14. The Federal Bureaucracy
- 15. The Ideological System: The Mass Media
- 16. The Ideological System: The Higher Learning and the Clergy
- 17. Relations between Elites
- Appendices
- Index
- Backmatter