National Album: Collective Biography and the Formation of the Canadian Middle Class 9780773582910

Table of contents :
Cover
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1 THE ROLE OF BIOGRAPHY IN SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL STUDIES
Biography and History, People and Cultures
Historical Sociology and Collective Biography
2 THE VICTORIAN CONTEXT
The Progress of Canadian Culture
The Meaning of Democracy and Equality in a Developing Culture
Success
Character as a Bridge for Social Change
Samuel Smiles and the Sanctity of Individual Effort
Phrenology: Physiognomy as an Image of Social Place
3 THE BIOGRAPHERS AT WORK
The Proper Data for the Object Lesson
Creating a Biographical Dictionary: Morgan's Method
The Basic Data of Biographical Representation
Three Representative Men
4 SOCIAL MOBILITY AND GROUP AFFILIATION
Horizontal Mobility as the Retention of Generational Power
Group Affiliation and Social Participation
Shared Affiliation in Two National Organizations
Group Affiliations at the Local Level
Levels of Social Participation
5 REPRESENTATIVE DISTINCTIONS: MEN AND WOMEN IN THE COLLECTIVE BIOGRAPHIES
"Differentiation" and "Fidelity": A Cultural Analysis of Gender Representation
6 THE STRUCTURE OF FEELING IN THE EMERGING MIDDLE CLASS
Personality Characteristics of Biographical Subjects
The Emergence of a Mediating Class
The Professional Ideal and the Middle Class
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX: A Note on Methodology

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