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Social Science General

Seasonal Sociology

edited by Tonya Davidson & Ondine Park

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2020
Category
General, Holidays (non-religious), General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487594107
    Publish Date
    Aug 2020
    List Price
    $50.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487594091
    Publish Date
    Sep 2020
    List Price
    $110.00
  • 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.

Tonya Davidson's profile page

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.

Ondine Park's profile page

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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