The Changing Canadian Population

The Changing Canadian Population
Author: Barry Edmonston
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2011-01-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 077359082X

Current social and economic changes in Canada raise many questions. Will Canada's education system be able to maintain its competitiveness when faced with increasing globalization? Will the growing numbers of immigrants and their children be successfully integrated? How will Canada's social institutions respond to a rapidly aging population? The Changing Canadian Population assembles answers from many of Canada's most distinguished scholars, who reassess the current state of society and Canada's preparedness for the challenges of the future.

Critical Years in Immigration

Critical Years in Immigration
Author: Freda Hawkins
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 414
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780773508521

With the new introduction, Freda Hawkins brings Critical Years in Immigration up to date by discussing the directions taken by the Canadian and Australian governments since 1984. She also clarifies the implications of the recently announced Canadian immigration levels for 1991-95, discussing the government's reasoning and future plans.

Youth, University, and Canadian Society

Youth, University, and Canadian Society
Author: Paul Axelrod
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 413
Release: 1989
Genre: Canada
ISBN: 0773506853

Paul Axelrod and John Reid take the reader through one hundred years of the complex and turbulent history of youth, university, and society. Contributors explore the question of how students have been affected by war and social change and discuss who was able to attend university and who was not, showing how access to privilege has changed over the years.

Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America

Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America
Author: Martin Bell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2003-12-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1134591950

This book draws together relevant research findings to produce the first comprehensive overview of Indigenous peoples' mobility. Chapters draw from a range of disciplinary sources, and from a diversity of regions and nation-states. Within nations, mobility is the key determinant of local population change, with implications for service delivery, needs assessment, and governance. Mobility also provides a key indicator of social and economic transformation. As such, it informs both social theory and policy debate. For much of the twentieth century conventional wisdom anticipated the steady convergence of socio-demographic trends, seeing this as an inevitable concomitant of the development process. However, the patterns and trends in population movement observed in this book suggest otherwise, and provide a forceful manifestation of changing race relations in these new world settings.

Ideological Perspectives on Canada

Ideological Perspectives on Canada
Author: M. Patricia Marchak
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2011-06-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0773590919

Marchak argues that liberalism and socialism have many commonalities, such as the goals of equality and freedom for citizens. Corporatism, however, is opposed to equality and promotes an authoritarian hierarchy, resembling the older conservative ideology. To support her argument, Marchak provides a general overview of the study of ideologies, analyzes liberalism and socialism in the context of Canada, and uses Marxist theory to explain past and present class structure and the emergence of a corporatist social structure. A valuable contribution to the debate about the society we live in, Ideological Perspectives on Canada attempts to look at ideologies from an objective standpoint, while admitting that analysts can never fully remove themselves from the web of their own society, which in the Canadian case is steeped in liberalism, socialism, and corporatism.

Urban Sociology in Canada

Urban Sociology in Canada
Author: Peter McGahan
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1483141918

Urban Sociology in Canada, Second Edition introduces the fundamentals of the theoretical structure of Canadian urban studies. The book is comprised of 11 chapters that are organized into six parts. The text provides census data of various Canadian cities along with urban empirical studies to help illustrate the generalization and concepts. The book first covers the classical foundations of urban sociology, and then proceeds to discussing the growth of urban system. The third part talks about the process of entrance to the urban system, while the fourth part deals with the spatial shape of the urban system. The last two parts tackle urbanism and the regulation of urban system, respectively. The book will be of great use to social scientists who involve urban population as the main demographics of their research study.