The Social Development of Canada. By S. D. Clark. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 1942. Pp. x, 484. $4.00.

1942 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-218
Author(s):  
J. B. Brebner
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Evolving cities into a sustaining and sustainable habitat

2004 ◽  
Vol 71 (424-426) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Willem H. Vanderburg
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
International Association ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

The author teaches Engineering, Sociology and Environmental Studies on issues of how to deal with the social and environmental problems related to the use of technology. He is the director of the Centre for Technology and Social Development at the University of Toronto, one of 25 leading innovators recognized by the Canada Foundation for Innovation in 2002, editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, and president of the International Association for Science, Technology and Society. He is the author of The Growth of Minds and Cultures, The Labyrinth of Technology, and Living in the Labyrinth of Technology (University of Toronto Press 1985, 2000 and 2005 respectively). The text that follows is an edited and revised version of a paper presented at the international symposion on 'The Natural City, " Toronto, 23-25 June, 2004, sponsored by the University of Toronto's Division of the Environment, Institute for Environmental Studies, and the World Society for Ekistics.

Richard Mackenney, Venice as the Polity of Mercy: Guilds, Confraternities, and the Social Order, c. 1250–c. 1650. Toronto Italian Studies. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2019, xiii, 471.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 551-552
Author(s):  
Thomas Willard
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Merchant Of Venice ◽  
Legal Scholar ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Italian Studies ◽  
The Merchant Of Venice ◽  
The Social ◽  
University Town ◽  
The University

Shakespeare is well known to have set two of his plays in and around Venice: The Merchant of Venice (1596) and The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (1603). The first is often remembered for its famous speech about “the quality of mercy,” delivered by the female lead Portia in the disguise of a legal scholar from the university town of Padua. The speech helps to spare the life of her new husband’s friend and financial backer against the claims of the Jewish moneylender Shylock. The play has raised questions for Shakespearean scholars about the choice of Venice as an open city where merchants of all nations and faiths would meet on the Rialto while the city’s Senate, composed of leading merchants, worked hard to keep it open to all and especially profitable for its merchants. Those who would like to learn more about the city’s development as a center of trade can learn much from Richard Mackenney’s new book.

scholarly journals Science and Sentiment: Social Service and Gender at the University of Toronto, 1888-1910

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-93
Author(s):  
Sara Z. Burke
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
First Response ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
British Idealism ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Abstract By examining forms of social thought articulated by members of the University of Toronto between 1888 and 1910, this paper argues that the University's first response to urban poverty was shaped by a combination of assumptions derived from British idealism and empiricism. Although many women at Toronto were pursuing a new interest in professional social work, the University's dominant assumptions conveyed the view that social service was the particular responsibility of educated young men, who were believed to be uniquely suited by their gender and class to address the problems of the city. This study maintains that during this period the construction of gender roles in social service segregated the reform activities of men and women on campus, and, by 1910, had the effect of excluding female undergraduates from participating in the creation of University Settlement, the social agency officially sanctioned by their University.

The influence of universities on the demographic and social development of regions and the labor market

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-43
Author(s):  
Ю.В. Данейкин ◽  
О.П. Иванова ◽  
А.С. Зарецкая ◽  
А.Ю. Рожкова
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
External Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
The University

В настоящее время нарастает тенденция необходимости включения университетов в решение актуальных задач пространственного, кадрового, социального и технологического развития территорий присутствия. Вузы становятся не только образовательными центрами регионов, они оказывают существенное влияние на изменение общества и внешней среды, как на уровне субъектов федерации, так и на уровне страны в целом. В статье предложена модель методики оценивания вклада университета в социальное и экономическое развитие региона. Currently, there is a growing tendency of the need to include universities in solving urgent problems of spatial, personnel, social and technological development of the territories of presence. Universities are becoming not only educational centers of the regions; they have a significant impact on changes in society and the external environment, both at the level of the constituent entities of the federation and at the level of the country as a whole. The article proposes a model of the methodology for assessing the contribution of the university to the social and economic development of the region.

Another look at the role of the industrial structure of markets for international diversification strategies1We are especially grateful to Pat Casey and Virge Cavalli at Dow Jones for providing the Dow Jones World Stock Index data and for their assistance with numerous queries. We gratefully acknowledge the comments of Geert Bekaert, William Brigham, Shane Corwin, Steve Foerster, Jeff Harris, Steve Heston, Ajay Khorana, David Mayers, John Persons, René Stulz, and particularly, the referee (Geert Rouwenhorst) and editor (John Long). We also thank participants at the University of Alberta, University of Toronto and Ohio State University, the 1996 UBC Global Investment Conference (Whistler), 1996 International Finance Conference (Georgia Tech), 1996 Western Finance Association Conference, and 1996 Financial Management Association Conference for helpful suggestions. Karolyi thanks the Dice Center for Financial Economics and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for financial support.1

1998 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M Griffin ◽  
G Andrew Karolyi
Keyword(s):  
Financial Management ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Stock Index ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Management Association ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

scholarly journals The Impact of Perceptual Fluency: An Observational Study on the Relationship between Accented Speech and Prosocial Behavior

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changhyuk Seo
Keyword(s):  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Standard American English ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Accented Speech ◽  
Meaningful Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Accent is one of the major factors that influences the impression of a speech. To see whether there is a meaningful relationship between lectures given in a non-Standard American English (nSAE) accent and applause at the end of each lecture, randomly-assigned 112 lecturers at the University of Toronto were observed. As predicted, lectures given in the nSAE accent did not in general receive applause regardless of the class size, class duration, etc. whereas those given in the SAE accent either received or not received applause, suggesting that other independent variables are at work in this case. While this result indirectly supports previous studies that confirmed a positive relationship between accented speech and its negative evaluation, it further illustrates that a speech given in the nSAE accent may subtly influence the social behavior of the perceiver toward the speech in question.

scholarly journals Students' Perception of Social Development through Sports at University Level

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 130-139
Author(s):  
Javed Ali Soomro ◽  
Ghayoor Abbas Bhati ◽  
Nisar Ahmed Khaskheli
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Data Collection Tool ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sports Programs ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Relationship Of

This investigation was conducted on the university students studying at Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur (SALU)-Sindh-Pakistan. 100 students amongst the enrolled students in various teaching departments (N=100) were selected to take part in the study as on a random sampling basis. A survey questionnaire was used as a data collection tool. The frequency percentage were differently calculated with the general frequencies shows the results of various statements about students' perception regarding social development through sports as frequency percent of items maximum as 30%, item-2, 38%, item-3, 31%, item-4, 42%, item-5, 46%, item-6, 51%, statement-7, 46% item-8, 47% item-9, 48%, item-10, 52% which all were different from each other. The results depict the closest relationship of sports with the social development of youths in our society. This investigation recommends that sports programs that may offer opportunities to ensure the social development of youths must be organized.

scholarly journals Separating out the levels: Globalization, identity, and the Ekistic Grid in sociological perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 169-175
Author(s):  
William Michelson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Environmental Sociology ◽  
World Society ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

The author is S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at the University of Toronto. His special areas are Urban Sociology and Social Ecology, with a focus on built environments. His most recent book is Time Use: Expanding Explanation in the Social Sciences (Boulder, CO,Paradigm Publishers, 2005). Previous books include: Man and his Urban Environment: A Sociological Approach (1970 and 1976), Environmental Choice, Human Behavior, and Residential Satisfaction (1977), From Sun to Sun: Daily Obligations and Community Structure in the Lives of Employed Women and their Families (1985), Methods in Environmental and Behavioral Research (1987), and the Handbook of Environmental Sociology (2002). He is a member of the World Society for Ekistics, as well as the Royal Society of Canada. The text that follows is a slightly revised and edited version of a paper presented at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity," organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.

scholarly journals Philosophy, Psychology, and History: George Sidney Brett and the Quest for a Social Science at the University of Toronto, 1910‑1940

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-236
Author(s):  
Michael Gauvreau
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Point Of Intersection ◽  
Unity Of Knowledge ◽  
The University ◽  
Structure Of Knowledge ◽  
English Canadian

Abstract Between his appointment to the department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto in 1908 until his death in 1944, George Sidney Brett directed the bulk of his writing and teaching to the preservation of the relationship between the sciences and the humanities. In the face of the unpalatable extremes of scientific determinism and the revolutionary celebration of irrationalism, Brett resolutely asserted the unity of knowledge. This, he insisted, rested upon discovering a point of intersection between nature, mind, and society. Brett's writings emphasized the central role of psychology in preserving this unity. In his estimation, psychology possessed close links to the natural sciences of physiology and biology but, more importantly, the study of the human mind was also vitally related to the traditional humanities of philosophy, history, and literature. His belief — that humanistic, philosophical values underlay the structure of knowledge —points to a fundamental divergence between English-Canadian and American universities in the early twentieth century. Brett's standpoint was directed to resisting the fragmentation and specialization which characterized the development of the social sciences in American universities. The fact that Brett and some influential social scientists at the University of Toronto pursued, until the 1940s, a method of organizing their disciplines which preserved the unspecialized, philosophical, and historical emphases associated with the humanistic ideal, indicates the need to revise explanations of the rise of the social sciences in English-Canadian universities.

Having It Both Ways with Erving Goffman

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 439-448
Author(s):  
John Plotz
Keyword(s):  
Social Situation ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Public Places ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
University Of Manitoba ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

Historians of social science from Anthony Giddens forward have ably chronicled Erving Goffman's legacy. Goffman's resonant book titles alone hint at the Dickensian acuity of his social close-reading: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1956), Behavior in Public Places (1963), Interaction Ritual (1967), Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience (1974), and Forms of Talk (1981). I envy newcomers the opportunity to read pieces like “On Cooling the Mark Out” (1952) and “Where the Action Is” (1967) with fresh eyes. Goffman, born in 1922 in Alberta, Canada, to Ukrainian parents, attended the University of Manitoba and the University of Toronto before receiving a PhD in sociology from Chicago. His fieldwork was in the Shetlands, and Asylums: Essays on the Condition of the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (1961) and Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (1963) were both written after a period of ethnographic immersion at St. Elizabeth's mental hospital in Washington, DC. It may help first-time readers to know that as an adolescent he had a “special aptitude for noticing details of people's interpersonal conduct”; also that “his Chicago classmates nicknamed him ‘the little dagger’ because of his talent for the pointed personal comment. Sometimes, they felt, he never knew when to stop.”

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