Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada.

Czerny, Michael

Publisher:  Jesuit Centre for Social Faith and Justice, Toronto
Year Published:  1984   First Published:  1984
Dewey:  301
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX2933

See also CX3147.


Abstract:  To be published in the summer of 1984 by Between the lines, Getting Started is a workbook intended to introduce people to the practice of social analysis in Canada. Two chapters are devoted to energy and the environment. Ecological threats to the environment are analyzed through the experience of a community's response to lead pollution. Canada's energy policy and the mega project trend are treated to an ethical analysis based on the ideal of a just, participatory and sustainable society. In both chapters, major actors and their competing interests are identified. As well, each chapter provides analytical tools and raises further questions to allow readers to pursue a critical investigation of these issues in relation to other concerns and the wider socio-economic context of Canada.

The approach of Getting Started is to involve the reader in analyzing a variety of issues which Canadians face daily: access to affordable housing and health care; unemployment; the social and economic impact of micro-technology; loss of dignity among the elderly; poverty among women; and efforts by Native People to protect their land.

Subject Headings

• Organizing
• Social Conditioning
• Social Justice Issues
• Sociology