Measuring the Mosaic: An Intellectual Biography of John Porter - Softcover

Helmes-Hayes, Rick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802096484 ISBN 13: 9780802096487

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2010

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 this title

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802096484
• ISBN 13: 9780802096487
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592