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Sport Policy in Canada

Sport Policy in Canada provides the first and most comprehensive analysis of the new Canadian Sport Policy adopted in 2012. In light of this new policy, the authors, top scholars in the field, provide ...

L'interculturel au Québec

Edited by Lomomba Emongo & Bob W. White
Categories: Sociology
Series: PUM

Deuxième ville interculturelle en Amérique du Nord selon le Conseil de l’Europe, Montréal – et avec elle le Québec – n’est pas encore remise de l’onde de choc provoquée par la Commission ...

Canadian Studies in the New Millennium, Second Edition

By (author) Mark J. Kasoff & Patrick James
Categories: Sociology

This popular textbook offers a thorough and accessible approach to Canadian Studies through comparative analyses of Canada and the United States, their histories, geographies, political systems, economies, ...

Desiring Canada

By (author) Patricia Cormack & James Cosgrave
Categories: Sociology

What do Tim Hortons, Hockey Night in Canada, and Rick Mercer have in common? Each is a popular symbol of Canadian identity, seen across the country – and beyond – on television and in other forms ...

A Wilder West

A controversial sport, rodeo is often seen as emblematic of the West's reputation as a “white man's country. ”A Wilder West complicates this view, showing how rodeo has been an important contact zone ...

Polygendered and Ponytailed

Since the 1970s North American women and girls have engaged in every sport that interests them and have become champions in their fields. One of the consequences of this success is ongoing criticism, ...

Evolution's Edge

By (author) Graeme Taylor
Categories: Sociology

It is now 5 minutes to midnight on the Doomsday Clock, reflecting the fact that we are closer to assuring the obliteration of our species than we have been at any time since the early eighties. We are ...

Family Matters

This refreshingly succinct and engaging introduction to family sociology in Canada has a strong focus on contemporary theory and research on a wide variety of substantive issues relevant to the lives ...

Hierarchies of Belonging

By (author) Ailsa Henderson
Categories: Sociology

"As we incorporate objective and subjective boundaries and view national identification as a process that relies on a shared understanding of several social factors, we can gain a more detailed view of ...