Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
Third Edition

Czerny, Michael; Swift, Jamie

Publisher: Between the Lines, Toronto, Canada
Year First Published: {8166 Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada GETTING STARTED ON SOCIAL ANALYSIS IN CANADA Third Edition Czerny, Michael; Swift, Jamie Between the Lines Toronto Canada See also CX2933. 1984 1988 BC8166s-GettingStarted2.jpg B Book This book, written by Michael Czerny, director of the Jesuit Centre for Social Faith and Justice, and Jamie Swift, author of "Cut and Run, the Assault on Canada's Forest," is an attempt to provide a practical guide to social analysis for teachers, unionists, church workers and community activists. Instead of leaving difficult economic and social questions to the experts, the authors argue, ordinary people must analyze problems like unemployment, housing shortage, the quality of health care and discimination against minority groups. The text is written in a plain non-academic style so it can be widely used as an educational tool by groups working for social change. Illustrations and charts are used liberally. Each chapter ends with a set of questions for disucssion and a list of further resources. The book is divided into several units, starting with an examination of three basic issues: health care, housing and the environemnt.It shows how people have faced those problems, for example, the story of the efforts of people in South Riverdale, a community in the east end of Toronto, to fight Canada Metal, a major lead polluter. The next section looks at the econimic issues of unemployment, microtechnology and resources development. The final section has chapters on women, natives and the elderly. Swift and Czerny contend that if people engage in social analysis they can organize effectively to change their lives. Statements of major Canadian churches on social issues are mentioned frequently in the text, but the book is also addressed to non-Christians. Table of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter One: Welcome to Social Analysis Basic Issues Chapter Two: In Sickness and in Health Chapter Three: The Housing Drama Chapter Four: Our Planet Earth Reflection Chapter Five: Social Analysis Again Economic Issues Chapter Six: Lost in the Supermarket Chapter Seven: The Plague of Unemployment Chapter Eight: Microtechnology and the Future Chapter Nine: Energy to Burn Reflection Chapter Ten: Media and Ideology Social Issues Chapter Eleven: Aging- Out of Sight Chapter Twelve: A Home and Native Land Chapter Thirteen: "A Woman's Place" Chapter Fourteen: Canada in the Americas Conclusion Chapter Fifteen: We Have Just Begun References Index CX3147 1 false true false CX3147.htm [0xc0001857d0 0xc000b03a10 0xc000c05e00 0xc000d89920 0xc000da8540 0xc00140cde0 0xc001e935c0 0xc002325a10 0xc0012d9020 0xc0012f6d20 0xc00009c6c0 0xc0001fa6f0 0xc0003815c0 0xc0003fcb10 0xc00053dd70 0xc000678240 0xc00006bfb0 0xc0004045d0 0xc0006e3a70 0xc0006f5050 0xc0005f6b40 0xc0008046f0 0xc000776330 0xc00064cbd0 0xc0004b73e0 0xc000507da0 0xc000597560 0xc0006e5560 0xc00078df20 0xc000a0a780 0xc000a30330 0xc000c967e0 0xc000c968d0 0xc000d95ad0 0xc000db8f60 0xc000d28db0 0xc000cb36e0 0xc000d232f0 0xc000f35770 0xc001178bd0 0xc001178de0 0xc0011790b0 0xc0002bf6e0 0xc000587650 0xc0005cf6e0 0xc00075d350 0xc0008ef2f0 0xc00093f020 0xc000997320 0xc000ab8a50 0xc001299ce0 0xc0014886c0 0xc002096d50 0xc0005e8990 0xc0007f3b30 0xc000a42510 0xc000a80270 0xc000a80810 0xc000aa8870 0xc000e8ff20 0xc0026bcc90 0xc0026cb080 0xc0026f5ec0 0xc0001b8510 0xc000a6b7a0 0xc0011b30b0 0xc00130e690 0xc00152a150 0xc00172e090 0xc0027b08d0 0xc0027d6f30 0xc00286b9b0 0xc00287fa40 0xc0028f6270] Cx}
Year Published: 1988
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX3147

See also CX2933.

Abstract:
This book, written by Michael Czerny, director of the Jesuit Centre for Social Faith and Justice, and Jamie Swift, author of "Cut and Run, the Assault on Canada's Forest," is an attempt to provide a practical guide to social analysis for teachers, unionists, church workers and community activists. Instead of leaving difficult economic and social questions to the experts, the authors argue, ordinary people must analyze problems like unemployment, housing shortage, the quality of health care and discimination against minority groups.

The text is written in a plain non-academic style so it can be widely used as an educational tool by groups working for social change. Illustrations and charts are used liberally. Each chapter ends with a set of questions for disucssion and a list of further resources.

The book is divided into several units, starting with an examination of three basic issues: health care, housing and the environemnt.It shows how people have faced those problems, for example, the story of the efforts of people in South Riverdale, a community in the east end of Toronto, to fight Canada Metal, a major lead polluter. The next section looks at the econimic issues of unemployment, microtechnology and resources development. The final section has chapters on women, natives and the elderly.

Swift and Czerny contend that if people engage in social analysis they can organize effectively to change their lives. Statements of major Canadian churches on social issues are mentioned frequently in the text, but the book is also addressed to non-Christians.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction
Chapter One: Welcome to Social Analysis

Basic Issues
Chapter Two: In Sickness and in Health
Chapter Three: The Housing Drama
Chapter Four: Our Planet Earth

Reflection
Chapter Five: Social Analysis Again

Economic Issues
Chapter Six: Lost in the Supermarket
Chapter Seven: The Plague of Unemployment
Chapter Eight: Microtechnology and the Future
Chapter Nine: Energy to Burn

Reflection
Chapter Ten: Media and Ideology

Social Issues
Chapter Eleven: Aging- Out of Sight
Chapter Twelve: A Home and Native Land
Chapter Thirteen: "A Woman's Place"
Chapter Fourteen: Canada in the Americas

Conclusion
Chapter Fifteen: We Have Just Begun

References
Index

Getting Started on Social Analysis in CanadaThird Edition

Subject Headings

Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
Third Edition