Seasonal Sociology
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2020
- Category
- General, Holidays (non-religious), General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487594107
- Publish Date
- Aug 2020
- List Price
- $50.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781487594091
- Publish Date
- Sep 2020
- List Price
- $110.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781487594084
- Publish Date
- Sep 2020
- List Price
- $63.00
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Description
Life in Canada is marked, celebrated, enjoyed, and dreaded in ways that respond specifically to the seasons. Sociological thinking allows people to ask questions about things that may otherwise be taken for granted. Thinking about the seasons sociologically opens up a unique perspective for studying and understanding social life. Each chapter in this collection approaches the seasons and the passage of time as a way to explore issues of sociological interest. The authors use seasonality as a device that can bridge, in fascinating ways, small-scale interpersonal interactions and large formal institutional structures. These contemporary, Canadian case studies are wide-ranging and include analyses of pumpkin spice lattes, policing in schools, law and colonialism, summer cottages, seasonal affective disorder, New Year’s resolutions, Vaisakhi celebrations, and more. Seasonal Sociology offers provocative new ways of thinking about the nature of our collective lives.
About the authors
Tonya K. Davidson is an instructor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University.
Ondine Park is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Alberta and is interested in urban and cultural studies and social theory. Her most recent research focuses on the idea and promise of the suburb. She can be found at www.ualberta.ca/~opark.
Awards
- Winner, 2021 PROSE Award Subject Category Association of American Publishers
Editorial Reviews
“The authors offer a compelling and accessible textbook, geared towards undergraduate pedagogy, that affects a provocative and effective set of estrangements from our socialization to weather.”
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