The Vertical Mosaic : : An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada / / John Porter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Porter, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1965
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (626 p.)

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 institutional arrangements for the industrial society it has become. Its educational systems have failed to provide the necessary skills which in large measure have been recruited through immigration. Its elites have been drawn largely from middle and upper class "British charter groups." The author further submits that the strong emphasis in the Canadian value system on regionalism and ethnic differentiation has resulted in the fragmentation of the society, particularly at the political level, and lef tit incapable of dealing with some of its major problems as an industrial society.Although this is a sociological study in which evidence in related to social theory, the author has tried to avoid technical terms, and this, together with the particular relevance at the present time of a discussion of the nature of Canadian society, will make this book interesting tolaymen as well as specialists.

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