Moral Vision, Empirical Rigour
The Vertical Mosaic helped establish a distinctively Canadian sociology — one now struggling for survival January–February 2010
Shaped by its roots in the intellectual and political ferment of the French Revolution, sociology is popularly identified with radical ideologies, Marxism and socialism in particular. Yet sociologists are uniquely diverse in the range of research methods they use—ethnographic, historical and statistical—and are heirs to a rich tradition of creative intellectual innovation from Durkheim, Weber and Merton to expatriate Canadian Erving…