Canada's Place - Tepperman, Lorne; Finnsdottir, Maria
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"Your reward in reading this intriguing book will be what you will inevitably find to be new, surprising and important." -Michael Adams, author of Fire and Ice This fascinating new book explores Canada's progress in dealing with a number of pressing social problems, including ethnic, racial, gender and economic inequalities, the treatment of Indigenous peoples, crime and violence, and environmental issues. The authors compare Canada to sixteen other similar countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Scandinavian countries. They note that while Canada has…mehr

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"Your reward in reading this intriguing book will be what you will inevitably find to be new, surprising and important." -Michael Adams, author of Fire and Ice This fascinating new book explores Canada's progress in dealing with a number of pressing social problems, including ethnic, racial, gender and economic inequalities, the treatment of Indigenous peoples, crime and violence, and environmental issues. The authors compare Canada to sixteen other similar countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Scandinavian countries. They note that while Canada has done well in certain areas-including welcoming large numbers of immigrants and encouraging them to become productive and engaged members of Canadian society-the country has much to learn from its peers in addressing other challenges. In concluding, Tepperman and Finnsdottir consider the significant differences among Canada's provinces and territories in dealing with social problems, and suggest ways in which Canada could better deal with social issues and further improve what for most of its citizens is an already enviable quality of life.
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Autorenporträt
Born in Toronto, Lorne Tepperman at first studied music but then "got seduced by sociology." He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Toronto before going on to Harvard, from which he graduated with his doctorate. He then returned to Canada, and for over fifty years, taught sociology to undergraduates at the University of Toronto. Over that time, he authored, co-authored, and edited nearly a hundred books, including best-selling textbooks on families, social inequality, crime and deviance, social problems, and introductory sociology, as well as monographs on the future of families and gambling addiction. The latter were translated into Vietnamese and Russian respectively. His latest nonfiction book, Why You Buy, which looks at shopping and consumerism, is being published at the same time as his first novel, Deadly Donation.