Measuring the Mosaic an Intellectual: An Intellectual Biography of John Porter.

Helmes-Hayes, Rick

ISBN 10: 0802096484 / ISBN 13: 9780802096487

Published by Downsview, Ontario, Canada: Univ of Toronto Pr, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Measuring the Mosaic an Intellectual: An Intellectual Biography of John Porter.
• Publisher: Downsview, Ontario, Canada: Univ of Toronto Pr
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802096484
• ISBN 13: 9780802096487
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • CANADIAN STUDIES
  • SOCIOLOGY

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Synopsis

Measuring the Mosaic is a comprehensive intellectual biography of John Porter (1921-1979), author of The Vertical Mosaic (1965), preeminent Canadian sociologist of his time, and one of Canada's most celebrated scholars. In the first biography of this important figure, Rick Helmes-Hayes provides a detailed account of Porter's life and an in-depth assessment of his extensive writings on class, power, educational opportunity, social mobility, and democracy.

While assessing Porter's place in the historical development of Canadian social science, Helmes-Hayes also examines the economic, social, political and scholarly circumstances - including the Depression, World War II, post-war reconstruction, the baby boom, and the growth of universities - that contoured Porter's political and academic views. Using extensive archival research, correspondence, and over fifty original interviews with family, colleagues, and friends, Measuring the Mosaic stresses Porter's remarkable contributions as a scholar, academic statesman, senior administrator at Carleton University, and engaged, practical public intellectual.

About the Author

Rick Helmes-Hayes is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Waterloo.