Next-year Country: A Study of Rural Social Organization in Alberta (Heritage) - Softcover

Burnet, Jean

 
9780802063403: Next-year Country: A Study of Rural Social Organization in Alberta (Heritage)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802063403 ISBN 13: 9780802063403
Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 1978

Inhaltsangabe

In this study of the problems of social organization in a rural

community of Alberta, a drought-afflicted wheat-growing area centring round the town

of Hanna is described as it appeared to the sociologist in 1946.

Dr Burnet

examines geographical and economic conditions in Hanna, and shows how farming

practices, ways of living, and modes of tenure brought into the area from more humid

regions proved ill adapted to the dry belt and delayed economic adjustment. In turn,

the difficulties in the realm of economics had adverse social and cultural

consequences in both the households and the community as a whole.

The Hanna

area was chosen for study, though not altogether typical, because it revealed more

clearly than other areas not so severely hit by the drought of the 1930s the kind of

disturbances within the Alberta social structure which made possible the rise of the

Social Credit movement.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jean Burnet (1920-2009) was Professor Emerita and former Chairman of the Department of Sociology at Glendon College, York University. She was a member of the research staff of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, and is the author of Next Year Country, published by the University of Toronto Press.

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Verlag
University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1978
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802063403
ISBN 13 
9780802063403
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
206
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