 | Social Scientists and Politics in Canada: Between Clerisy and Vanguard Subjects: Social scientists -- Canada -- Social conditions; Social scientists -- Quebec (Province) -- Social conditions; Social sciences and state -- Canada -- History -- 20th century; Social sciences and state -- Quebec (Province) -- History -- 20th century; Canad; Social scientists have played many roles in Canadian politics since the Second World War. Stephen Brooks and Alain Gagnon examine the forms and extent of social scientists' involvement in the political process, their relationship to the state, and the complexities of their class position. The unique development of the social sciences in Quebec and their relationship to Quebec nationalism are examined and distinctions between development in this community and in the predominantly anglophone community of the rest of Canada are contrasted. Gagnon Alain-G. : Alain-G. Gagnon is professor of political science at Université du Québec à Montréal and co-editor of The Quebec Conference of 1864: Understanding the Emergence of the Canadian Federation and The Constitutions That Shaped Us: A Historical Anthology of Pre |
