Paradise : class, commuters, and ethnicity in rural Ontario / / Stanley R. Barrett

• Autore: Barrett Stanley R.
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1994; ©1994
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.72/09713
• Soggetto topico: Sociology, Rural - Ontario; Social classes - Ontario; Urban-rural migration - Ontario
• Soggetto geografico: Ontario Race relations; Ontario Ethnic relations; Ontario Rural conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Part One Paradise Lost: Natives -- 1 Historical Sketches -- 2 The Framework of the Study -- 3 Stratification -- 4 The Great Escape -- Part Two Paradise Found: Newcomers -- 5 Modern Pioneers -- 6 The Commuting Life -- 7 Growing Pains -- Part Three Perfect Strangers: Ethnic Minorities -- 8 British Subjects and Aliens -- 9 African and Asian Canadians -- 10 Jews and French Canadians -- 11 Patterns of Prejudice -- 12 Wider Issues -- Appendix A: Methodology -- Appendix B: Interview Schedule for Natives -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- V -- W.
• Sommario/riassunto: Paradise €concentrates on the transformed class system of one community in rural Ontario. In a comparison of the decade following the First World War and the 1980s, Stanley R. Barrett analyses the changing face and structure of a town as it has had to adapt to modern social and economic realities.
• Titolo autorizzato: Paradise
• ISBN: 1-4426-5662-X; 1-4426-3331-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812464303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthropological horizons ; ; 5.