Half a Century of Sociological Scholarship in the <i>CRS(A)</i>

Carroll, William K.

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“…Falardeau and Jones 1958;Forcese and Richer, eds. 1975: 449-66;Clark 1975Clark , 1979Tomovic 1975;Ramu and Johnson 1976: 479-94;Symons 1977;Brym 1979, 1986, [with Fox] 1989Hiller 1980Hiller , 1982Rush, Christiansen and Malcolmson 1981;Wilcox-Magill 1983;Bodemann 1984;Helmes-Hayes 2003;Platt 2006;Carroll 2013;Helmes-Hayes and Warren, in press). Other scholars have documented key events in the history of the discipline such as the founding of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (hereafter CSAA) (Jones 1990), the establishment of the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology (Jones 1992), and the dynamics of the "Canadianization movement" that convulsed the discipline in the 1970s (e.g.…”

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The Institutionalization of Symbolic Interactionism in Canadian Sociology, 1922-1979: Success at What Cost?

Helmes-Hayes

Milne

2017

Can. J. Soc.

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This essay examines the growth of symbolic interactionism (SI) as a specialization in English-language Canadian sociology, 1922–1979. We do not focus on theoretical and/or methodological developments. Rather, we document three empirical indicators of the institutionalization of SI: faculty members hired, research published, and SI-receptive programs established. We find that Canadian sociologists institutionalized SI in two phases. From 1922 to 1959, SI institutionalized slowly. There were few SI “core” faculty and scarcely more “SI-accommodative” faculty. Little SI-based literature was published. McGill had Canada’s only SI-friendly program. After 1960, SI grew rapidly and, by 1979, was well institutionalized: over ninety SI and SI-accommodative faculty had been hired, SI literature (journal articles, textbooks) was commonplace. Many sociology departments offered an SI-accommodative program. Sometime in the 1980s, classical SI began to “de-institutionalize.” Ironically, as SI’s footprint grew and influence spread, it appeared to become less discernable, less coherent and less viable as a distinct and unified approach.

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