Harry H Hiller
Biographic Data
| ID | 109454 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harry H Hiller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harry H |
| FAMILY NAME | Hiller |
| SIGNATURE | HILLER H H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6261-9277 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 319 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Calgary 2026 Olympic Bid Plebiscite as Affective Urbanism
An analysis of the Calgary 2026 Olympic bid plebiscite/referendum held in 2018 adds a new perspective to the literature on bidding by shifting from the cognitive/organizational elements of the bid to the emotive dynamics within the bid city conceptualized as affective urbanism. The socioeconomic and political context and the binary nature of the plebiscite question provide the framework to explain the negative vote. Using the civic discourse of l…
The Olympics as an urban policy choice: Post-Games assessments of economic value by host city residents
Olympic boosters have increasingly encountered opposition among city residents about the idea of hosting the Games. Among factors leading cities to question the advisability of hosting the Olympics is the issue of cost, which has critically shaped public opinion in bid cities. Considerable attention has been given to public opinion among local residents in host Olympic cities in both the bid phase and the preparation phase. In contrast, this pape…
Public Opinion in Olympic Cities: From Bidding to Retrospection
Whereas traditionally hosting the Olympics was viewed as a top-down decision with little public input, public opinion is becoming more important in assessing and evaluating the merits of hosting the Games. Using bid documents from 2010 to 2020, the formal role that public opinion officially plays in the bid phase following the International Olympic Committee (IOC) procedures is examined. Public opinion in the preparation stage is reviewed, which …
Unauthorized secondary suites and renters: A life course perspective
The psycho-social impact of the Olympics as urban festival: A leisure perspective
Typical impact assessments of mega-events such as the Olympics focus on economic and tourism indicators or urban regeneration efforts. This paper instead focuses on the perceptions and attitudes of local residents about the mega-event and how it impacts them. Using poll data gathered in relation to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games and the 2012 London Summer Olympics, it is shown how attitudes shift over time and, above all, how the Games-time expe…
Host Cities and the Olympics: An Interactionist Approach
Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event of international or national significance, this book understands the Games as a civic project for the host city that serves as a catalyst for a variety of urban interests over a period of many years from the bidding phase through the event itself. Traditional Olympic studies have tended to examine the Games from an outsider's perspective or as something experienced through the pr…
Host Cities and the Olympics
Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event of international or national significance, this book understands the Games as a civic project for the host city that serves as a catalyst for a variety of urban interests over a period of many years from the bidding phase through the event itself. Traditional Olympic studies have tended to examine the Games from an outsider's perspective or as something experienced through the pr…
La sociologie et la construction de la nation au Canada anglais: La contribution de l’Ouest canadien
L’interrogation macrosociologique sur la société canadienne a été posée à partir de deux perspectives centrales : le changement social et le régionalisme. Ce qui est souvent oublié, c’est que la sociologie canadienne-anglaise a reçu une impulsion déterminante grâce à l’étude d’une région particulière : l’Ouest canadien. La colonisation et l’organisation de l’Ouest au cours de la seconde moitié du XX e siècle a suscité une série de comportements p…
Public Opinion in Host Olympic Cities: The Case of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games
Olympic analyses typically depend heavily on perspectives built from macro processes characteristically rooted in political economy. Using survey data of city residents gathered at six different points in time during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, this article proposes a focus on what happens within the host city during the Games. While the Olympics were the centre of much debate and controversy before the Games, the data show that attitudes…
Airports as borderlands: American preclearance and transitional spaces in canada
Airport preclearance is a unique mechanism in transborder relations between Canada and the United States that allows airline passengers to clear customs and immigration before boarding the aircraft rather than upon arrival at the destination. Preclearance is explained in relation to the changing nature of border security in the context of Canadian‐American relations, bilateral air policies, and the structural features of the two societies. Howeve…
Reassessing the role of partnered women in migration decision-making and migration outcomes
Previous research on women and internal family migration has tended to conclude that women are usually passive, subordinate, followers, or victims in the migration process because of the nature of their relationship to men. This study focuses on the independent (unsponsored) migrant rather than the corporate mover, which allows us to see how partnered women initiate and benefit from migration because of their sense of control over the process. Wh…
Post-event Outcomes and the Post-modern Turn: The Olympics and Urban Transformations
The Olympics are analysed from an urban perspective as an event that has an impact on cities beyond sport. The focus of the paper is on post-event outcomes and particularly on Olympic-related facilities and how they are used once the Olympics are over. The 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics serves as the primary illustration of the processes described. The transformation of the urban order is discussed in terms of the post-modern turn and it is shown h…
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The Interviewee and the Research Interview: Analysing a Neglected Dimension in Research
L'entrevue de recherche est généralement examinée du point de vue du chercheur. Contrairement à la recherche activiste, qui accorde beaucoup d'carimportance à l'opinion du participant, les constructivistes ont ajouté une nouvelle perspective en démontrant comment l'entrevue de recherche est à la fois collaborative et génératrice de significations. Notre étude livre une analyse plus explicite de l'entrevue du point de vue de l'interviewé. Selon un…
New ties, old ties and lost ties: The use of the internet in diaspora
The computer represents a new resource in developing social capital that previously did not exist among migrants. The relationship between physical space and cyberspace is discussed using the experience of migrants from Newfoundland who, although dispersed from their homeland, use the computer to maintain ties with both their homeland and others in diaspora. Three phases in the migration cycle are identified (pre-migrant, post-migrant, settled mi…
Writing off the Rural West: Globalization, Governments, and the Transformation of Rural Communities
Some of the most intense effects of globalization can be seen in rural communities. Despite a booming world economy, rural communities-and the people who work in natural-resource industries like farming, forestry, mining or fishing-have been hard hit by recent international trade agreements. This collection looks at changing rural life, across the country and around the globe
St Century Canadian Diversity
The Olympic Games: A Social Science Perspective
Required reading: Sociology's most influential books
The Most Important Books/Articles in Canadian Sociology in the Twentieth Century: A Report
To mark the advent of the new millennium, sociologists across Canada were asked to nominate book monographs and journal articles which they considered to be the most important in Canadian sociology in the twentieth century. The only requirement was that the book/article had to deal with some aspect of Canadian life or that its author was domiciled in Canada or had at some point been domiciled in Canada. The division of publications into two categ…
Text and Context: Another "Chapter" in the Evolution of Sociology in Canada
The evolution of sociology as a discipline in Canada is intimately related to its institutional position within Canadian universities. As student bodies expanded, not only did the demand for university-based sociologists increase but there was also a demand for society-specific class material for sociology courses. This paper examines the textbook, particularly in the 1970's, as a symbol of changes and developments in the discipline and demonstra…
Mega-events, Urban Boosterism and Growth Strategies: An Analysis of the Objectives and Legitimations of the Cape Town 2004 Olympic Bid
Mega-events are short-term high-profile events like Olympics and World Fairs that always have a significant urban impact. They re-prioritize urban agendas, create post-event usage debates, often stimulate urban redevelopment, and are instruments of boosterist ideologies promoting economic growth. While mega-events have normally been the preserve of industrial/postindustrial cities, the bid for the 2004 Olympics by Cape Town, South Africa represen…
The Decline of Deference: Canadian Value Change in Cross-National Perspective
Canadian Society: Understanding and Surviving the 1990s
Conventions as mega-events
Mega-events, Urban Boosterism and Growth Strategies: An Analysis of the Objectives and Legitimations of the Cape Town 2004 Olympic Bid
Mega-events are short-term high-profile events like Olympics and World Fairs that always have a significant urban impact. They re-prioritize urban agendas, create post-event usage debates, often stimulate urban redevelopment, and are instruments of boosterist ideologies promoting economic growth. While mega-events have normally been the preserve of industrial/postindustrial cities, the bid for the 2004 Olympics by Cape Town, South Africa represen…
New ties, old ties and lost ties: The use of the internet in diaspora
The computer represents a new resource in developing social capital that previously did not exist among migrants. The relationship between physical space and cyberspace is discussed using the experience of migrants from Newfoundland who, although dispersed from their homeland, use the computer to maintain ties with both their homeland and others in diaspora. Three phases in the migration cycle are identified (pre-migrant, post-migrant, settled mi…
Reassessing the role of partnered women in migration decision-making and migration outcomes
Previous research on women and internal family migration has tended to conclude that women are usually passive, subordinate, followers, or victims in the migration process because of the nature of their relationship to men. This study focuses on the independent (unsponsored) migrant rather than the corporate mover, which allows us to see how partnered women initiate and benefit from migration because of their sense of control over the process. Wh…
The Canadian Sociology Movement: Analysis and Assessment
The Canadianization issue within the discipline of sociology in Canada has resulted in an identifiable Canadian sociology movement. A developmental framework for the movement is presented consisting of two phases, the first stressing personnel matters and the second emphasizing the search for the content of a specifically Canadian sociological perspective. As a contribution to the sociology of Canadian sociology, the paper develops a multi-causal…
The Interviewee and the Research Interview: Analysing a Neglected Dimension in Research
L'entrevue de recherche est généralement examinée du point de vue du chercheur. Contrairement à la recherche activiste, qui accorde beaucoup d'carimportance à l'opinion du participant, les constructivistes ont ajouté une nouvelle perspective en démontrant comment l'entrevue de recherche est à la fois collaborative et génératrice de significations. Notre étude livre une analyse plus explicite de l'entrevue du point de vue de l'interviewé. Selon un…
Public Opinion in Host Olympic Cities: The Case of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games
Olympic analyses typically depend heavily on perspectives built from macro processes characteristically rooted in political economy. Using survey data of city residents gathered at six different points in time during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, this article proposes a focus on what happens within the host city during the Games. While the Olympics were the centre of much debate and controversy before the Games, the data show that attitudes…
Writing off the Rural West: Globalization, Governments, and the Transformation of Rural Communities
Some of the most intense effects of globalization can be seen in rural communities. Despite a booming world economy, rural communities-and the people who work in natural-resource industries like farming, forestry, mining or fishing-have been hard hit by recent international trade agreements. This collection looks at changing rural life, across the country and around the globe
Public Opinion in Olympic Cities: From Bidding to Retrospection
Whereas traditionally hosting the Olympics was viewed as a top-down decision with little public input, public opinion is becoming more important in assessing and evaluating the merits of hosting the Games. Using bid documents from 2010 to 2020, the formal role that public opinion officially plays in the bid phase following the International Olympic Committee (IOC) procedures is examined. Public opinion in the preparation stage is reviewed, which …
From Culture to Power: The Sociology of English Canada
There have been many dramatic changes in English Canadian sociology since the 1960s. 25 years ago the cultural values of Canadians were believed to be largely responsible for patterns of economic development, politics, and inequality. In the late 1980s these same features of social life are typically explained in terms of the way power is distributed in Canada. Brym and Fox attribute this change to the growing influence of various currents of Mar…
Humor and hostility: A neglected aspect of social movement analysis
Dependence and independence: Emergent nationalism in Newfoundland
Contemporary Issues in Theory and Research: A Metasociological Perspective
The psycho-social impact of the Olympics as urban festival: A leisure perspective
Typical impact assessments of mega-events such as the Olympics focus on economic and tourism indicators or urban regeneration efforts. This paper instead focuses on the perceptions and attitudes of local residents about the mega-event and how it impacts them. Using poll data gathered in relation to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games and the 2012 London Summer Olympics, it is shown how attitudes shift over time and, above all, how the Games-time expe…
Airports as borderlands: American preclearance and transitional spaces in canada
Airport preclearance is a unique mechanism in transborder relations between Canada and the United States that allows airline passengers to clear customs and immigration before boarding the aircraft rather than upon arrival at the destination. Preclearance is explained in relation to the changing nature of border security in the context of Canadian‐American relations, bilateral air policies, and the structural features of the two societies. Howeve…
The Most Important Books/Articles in Canadian Sociology in the Twentieth Century: A Report
To mark the advent of the new millennium, sociologists across Canada were asked to nominate book monographs and journal articles which they considered to be the most important in Canadian sociology in the twentieth century. The only requirement was that the book/article had to deal with some aspect of Canadian life or that its author was domiciled in Canada or had at some point been domiciled in Canada. The division of publications into two categ…
Conventions as mega-events
Text and Context: Another "Chapter" in the Evolution of Sociology in Canada
The evolution of sociology as a discipline in Canada is intimately related to its institutional position within Canadian universities. As student bodies expanded, not only did the demand for university-based sociologists increase but there was also a demand for society-specific class material for sociology courses. This paper examines the textbook, particularly in the 1970's, as a symbol of changes and developments in the discipline and demonstra…
The Calgary 2026 Olympic Bid Plebiscite as Affective Urbanism
An analysis of the Calgary 2026 Olympic bid plebiscite/referendum held in 2018 adds a new perspective to the literature on bidding by shifting from the cognitive/organizational elements of the bid to the emotive dynamics within the bid city conceptualized as affective urbanism. The socioeconomic and political context and the binary nature of the plebiscite question provide the framework to explain the negative vote. Using the civic discourse of l…
Unauthorized secondary suites and renters: A life course perspective
The Olympic Games: A Social Science Perspective
Continentalism and the Third Force in Religion
The Decline of Deference: Canadian Value Change in Cross-National Perspective
Canadian Society: Understanding and Surviving the 1990s
Inflation of Symbols: Loss of Values in American Culture
Today Americans are used to keeping tabs on inflation through the use of price indexes and interest rates, and to restraining it through the use of Federal Reserve monetary policy. No tabs, however, are kept on other kinds of inflation, of symbols other than money. Klapp looks into what the inflation of value might mean and how it occurs in relations, popular culture, mass contagions, fads and fashions, even smiles and kisses. In Klapp's view, sy…
Norms of Verbalization and the Decision Making Process in Religious Organizations
In contrast to previous research that stressed structural and contextual effects on decision making in religious organizations, this research examines the decision making process itself as a test of the normative character of religious groups. Two-hundred and eighty-nine decisions in three Baptist churches were examined and a strong inverse relationship was found between the socioeconomic status of the decision maker and the frequency of appeals …
The New Theology and the Sociology of Religion
La nouvelle theologie represente une forme contemporaine d'expression religieuse qui est d'un interet tout particulier pour la sociologie des religions. Non seulement pouvons‐nous decouvrir quelques‐uns des facteurs sociaux qui ont suscité ces changements dans la theologie, mais aussi certaines des consequences sociologiques de la nouvelle theologie suggerent une revision theorique de la perspective traditionnelle (centree sur l'Eglise) de la soc…
Communality as a Dimension of Ecumenical Negativism
The Sociological Debate: Innovating with the Pedagogical Role
social scientist leaves him poorly prepared for his role as educator or teacher. Thus, sociology usually is abstracted from the real social world and taught deductively beginning with concepts and principles. The backlash to this approach has been to teach sociology inductively in which relevance replaces theory. In an attempt to straddle both of these approaches, this paper presents an alternative format in classroom debates to increase both rel…
A Reconceptualization of the Dynamics of Social Movement Development
Canadian Society: A Sociological Analysis
Internal Problem Resolution and Third Party Emergence
Sectarianism: Analyses of Religious and Non-Religious Sects
The contribution of S. D. Clark to the sociology of Canadian religion
Canadian Society: A Sociological Analysis
Division in the Protestant House: The Basic Reasons behind Intra-Church Conflicts
Continentalism and the Third Force in Religion
The Canadian Sociology Movement: Analysis and Assessment
The Canadianization issue within the discipline of sociology in Canada has resulted in an identifiable Canadian sociology movement. A developmental framework for the movement is presented consisting of two phases, the first stressing personnel matters and the second emphasizing the search for the content of a specifically Canadian sociological perspective. As a contribution to the sociology of Canadian sociology, the paper develops a multi-causal…
Paradigmatic shifts, indigenization, and the development of sociology in Canada
Three contextual models of disciplinary development (institutional, ideological congruence, and intradisciplinary) are employed to explain the history of sociology in Canada. A fourth dependency model is added to show how the national disciplinary community has been greatly influenced by paradigms and approaches to sociology emphasized in other countries. A fourfold periodization of the historical development of sociology in Canada is sketched wh…
Contemporary Issues in Theory and Research: A Metasociological Perspective
Religious Change and Continuity: Sociological Perspectives
Nationality, Relevance, and Ethnocentrism: An Essay in the Sociology of Canadian Book Publishing
Norms of Verbalization and the Decision Making Process in Religious Organizations
In contrast to previous research that stressed structural and contextual effects on decision making in religious organizations, this research examines the decision making process itself as a test of the normative character of religious groups. Two-hundred and eighty-nine decisions in three Baptist churches were examined and a strong inverse relationship was found between the socioeconomic status of the decision maker and the frequency of appeals …
Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism
Toward the Emergence of Canadian Sociology: The Contribution of S. D. Clark
Humor and hostility: A neglected aspect of social movement analysis
Beginnings: Essays on the History of Canadian Sociology
The Social Organization of Migration: An Analysis of the Uprooting and Flight of Vietnamese Refugees
Using a snowball sampling technic, this study, based on interviews with 70 Indochinese refugees living in a western Canadian city, examines the flight of Vietnamese refugees as volitional and socially purposive behavior. The act of becoming a refugee is usually not perceived to be a process of rational organization or the skillful mobilization of resources. 2 interrelated tasks in the preflight process can be identified as that of material, socia…
Book Notices
Journal Article BOOK NOTICES Get access Religious Television: The American Experience. By Peter G. Horsfield. Longman, 1984. 197 pages. $15.00. Harry H. Hiller Harry H. Hiller University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIV, Issue 1, Spring 1986, Pages 177-a–177, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIV.1.177-a Published: 01 March 1986
Dependence and independence: Emergent nationalism in Newfoundland
Research In Social Movements: Vol. 9: Conflicts and Change
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