Vertical Mosaic : an Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada, 50th Anniversary Edition.
John Porter's landmark study of social and ethnic inequality, The Vertical Mosaic, became an instant classic when it was first published in 1965. A national best seller that sold more than 100,000 copies, the book was the first major study of Canada's class structure and one of the foundat...
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | 50th ed. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; PART I: THE STRUCTURE OF CLASS; PART II: THE STRUCTURE OF POWER; APPENDIXES; INDEX; I: Class and Power: The Major Themes; II: Class, Mobility, and Migration; III: Ethnicity and Social Class; IV: Classes and Incomes; V: Rural Decline and New Urban Strata; VI: Social Class and Educational Opportunity; VII: Elites and the Structure of Power; VIII: The Concentration of Economic Power; IX: The Economic Elite and Social Structure; X: The Structure of Organized Labour; XI: The Labour Elite; XII: The Canadian Political System; XIII: The Political Elite.
- XIV: The Federal BureaucracyXV: The Ideological System: The Mass Media; XVI: The Ideological System: The Higher Learning and the Clergy; XVII: Relations between Elites; I: Class and Social Structure: Tables and Figures; II: The Concentration of Economic Power; III: How the Other Elites Were Selected; A; C; D; E; F; H; J; M; N; Q; T; V; The Canadian Middle Class Image; The Ubiquity of Social Rank; Classes: Real or Artificial Groups?; The Experience of Social Class; Class as Functional Inequality: The Conservative Ideology; Marx and Theories of Class Conflict; The Post-Marxian Industrial World.
- Elites and Non-ElitesUncertain Growth; Social Psychology of Population Instability; Migration and Occupational Levels; Professions and Skills; Mobility Deprivation through Educational Deprivation; Importation of Skill: An Earlier Period; Migration and Class Structure; Charter Groups and the Mythology of Race; Entrance Status and Ethnic Segregation; Ethnic Affiliation and Occupational Class; British and French: Higher and Lower Charter Groups; Religion and Class: A Note; Taxation Statistics; Sample Surveys: Inequalities in Incomes and Assets; Middle Class and Middle Majority.
- A Note on 1959 Income DistributionHistorical Sketch; Off-Farm Migration; Inter-provincial Migration; Shape of Class Structure; Social Barriers; Psychological Barriers; Canadian Education, 1951 to 1961; Class Origins of High School Students; Class Origins of University Students; Financial Considerations and School-Leaving; Intelligence and Social Class; Social Necessity of Power; Elites as the Holders of Power; Degree of Co-ordination among Elites; Recruitment of Elites; The Collegial Principle; Elites and Their Bureaucracies; The Legitimacy of Power; Some Measures of Concentration.
- The Growth of the Larger FirmsSocial Structure and Economic Power; Nuclei of Power; An External Elite?; Career Patterns and Education; Ethnic and Religious Affiliation; Class Origins; Political Affiliations; Beyond the Board Room; The Elite as a Homogeneous Group; Trade Unions and Corporations; Social Movement and Market Unionism; National Unionism and International Unionism; Labour Divisions in Quebec; Craft and Industrial Unionism; Social and Class Origins; Labour Leaders and Politics; The Union Leader's Career; Top-Rankers; The French Syndicates; The Political System.
