Patricia Thornton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Thornton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Thornton |
| SIGNATURE | THORNTON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Marrying 'the Other
This paper examines the determinants of ethno-religious intermarriage in Quebec over a century as an indication of integration in a province where minority/majority relations are distinct from the rest of Canada. Drawing on previous work by Kalmijn and others outside of Canada, we distinguish between cultural preferences and structural factors and continue a long tradition of such studies within Canada by using the manuscript censuses. We use dat…
Peopling the North American City
Many North American cities trace their population booms to the nineteenth century when immigrants and migrants flooded emerging industrializing urban centres in search of better lives. Peopling the North American City examines this phenomenon in Montreal through the eyes of a thousand couples to construct both an intimate portrait and a compelling overview of life in a nineteenth-century metropolis
Mortality in late nineteenth-century Montreal
In the City of Montreal, 1881, the presence of three cultural communities with different profiles of economic status makes it possible to observe the way social settings affected survival over a lifetime. Regression models show culturally determined maternal factors dominant for infants, and persistent throughout childhood. For post-neonates, children aged 1-4, and adults aged 15-59 household poverty has a comparable effect. Among adults, a gende…
At the Crossroads of Empires
Disability in the UK
In this article we identify the key survey data for examining the issue of equality in the lives of disabled people in the UK. Such data is essential for assessing change in quality of life over time and for the evaluation of the impact of policy initiatives. For each data source we consider definitions, data collection, issue coverage, sample size and data access. It is evident that there is only limited survey data on the lives of disabled peop…
Disabled People, Employment and Social Justice
Since it came to power in 1997 the Labour Government has conceived of low levels labour market participation by disabled people as not just an economic concern but also an indicator of social exclusion or social injustice. This article presents some evidence about inequalities between disabled and non-disabled people in the labour market; reviews the evidence on discrimination in employment and discusses the potential of anti-discrimination legis…
Special and Mainstream Services in Europe, and the Case of the United Kingdom
Alors que l’idée selon laquelle les personnes handicapées ont besoin de services de réadaptation et d’aide à l’emploi spécifiques était profondément enracinée en Europe, l’Union européenne a affirmé son engagement en faveur de la prise en compte des handicapés dans les politiques de l’emploi visant l’ensemble de la population ou « mainstreaming » . Après une rapide définition de cette approche, cet article expose les raisons du maintien de la pré…
Panorama des dispositifs, spécialisés ou non, existant en Europe et l'exemple du Royaume-Uni
Alors que l’idée selon laquelle les personnes handicapées ont besoin de services de réadaptation et d’aide à l’emploi spécifiques était profondément enracinée en Europe, l’Union européenne a affirmé son engagement en faveur de la prise en compte des handicapés dans les politiques de l’emploi visant l’ensemble de la population ou « mainstreaming » . Après une rapide définition de cette approche, cet article expose les raisons du maintien de la pré…
Markets from Culture
Institutional logics, the underlying governing principles of societal sectors, strongly influence organizational decision making. Any shift in institutional logics results in a similar shift in attention to alternative problems and solutions and in new determinants for executive decisions. Examining changes in institutional logics in higher-education publishing, this book links cultural analysis with organizational decision making to develop a th…
A deadly discrimination among Montreal infants, 1860–1900
We compare Montreal's three largest cultural communities – French Canadian, Irish Catholic, and Anglo-Protestant – with respect to infant survival over the forty years 1860–1900. From three birth cohorts we present evidence for a powerful and persistent cultural dimension which outweighs distinctions of social status. The local cultural mix offers insights into mechanisms operating through a chain of cultural practices, property interests, ethnic…
Beneath the Banyan Tree
(1999). Beneath the Banyan Tree: Popular Views of Taxation and the State during the Republican and Reform Eras. Twentieth-Century China: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 1-42
The Mis-treatment of Elderly People
Disability and employment
This article explores the nature of disability employment policy drawing on evidence from fifteen countries. In line with earlier sociological approaches to disability it describes two ways of framing policy in the area. These two paradigms are developed and used to critically evaluate employment policy under the headings: legislative measures, open employment-financial employment support services and sheltered/supported provision. The dilemmas t…
Subject to contract? Volunteers as providers of community care for elderly people and their supporters
Dimensions sociales de la mortalité infantile à Montréal au milieu du XIXe siècle
L'analyse des taux de mortalité infantile dans la cohorte de 4 000 enfants nés à Montréal en 1859 porte à croire que l'appartenance à une communauté culturelle pèse plus lourd que le métier du père, le loyer familial, le quartier et le type d'habitat. Parmi les Canadiens français 27,6 % des enfants sont morts avant l'âge de un an. Ce taux est nettement plus que ceux des protestants (18,6 %) et des Irlandais catholiques (20,0 %), malgré la misère …
The Role of Local Groups in Trunk-Road Consultation
Mortality in late nineteenth-century Montreal
In the City of Montreal, 1881, the presence of three cultural communities with different profiles of economic status makes it possible to observe the way social settings affected survival over a lifetime. Regression models show culturally determined maternal factors dominant for infants, and persistent throughout childhood. For post-neonates, children aged 1-4, and adults aged 15-59 household poverty has a comparable effect. Among adults, a gende…
Disability in the UK
In this article we identify the key survey data for examining the issue of equality in the lives of disabled people in the UK. Such data is essential for assessing change in quality of life over time and for the evaluation of the impact of policy initiatives. For each data source we consider definitions, data collection, issue coverage, sample size and data access. It is evident that there is only limited survey data on the lives of disabled peop…
Disability and employment
This article explores the nature of disability employment policy drawing on evidence from fifteen countries. In line with earlier sociological approaches to disability it describes two ways of framing policy in the area. These two paradigms are developed and used to critically evaluate employment policy under the headings: legislative measures, open employment-financial employment support services and sheltered/supported provision. The dilemmas t…
A deadly discrimination among Montreal infants, 1860–1900
We compare Montreal's three largest cultural communities – French Canadian, Irish Catholic, and Anglo-Protestant – with respect to infant survival over the forty years 1860–1900. From three birth cohorts we present evidence for a powerful and persistent cultural dimension which outweighs distinctions of social status. The local cultural mix offers insights into mechanisms operating through a chain of cultural practices, property interests, ethnic…
The Mis-treatment of Elderly People
Marrying 'the Other
This paper examines the determinants of ethno-religious intermarriage in Quebec over a century as an indication of integration in a province where minority/majority relations are distinct from the rest of Canada. Drawing on previous work by Kalmijn and others outside of Canada, we distinguish between cultural preferences and structural factors and continue a long tradition of such studies within Canada by using the manuscript censuses. We use dat…
Disabled People, Employment and Social Justice
Since it came to power in 1997 the Labour Government has conceived of low levels labour market participation by disabled people as not just an economic concern but also an indicator of social exclusion or social injustice. This article presents some evidence about inequalities between disabled and non-disabled people in the labour market; reviews the evidence on discrimination in employment and discusses the potential of anti-discrimination legis…
Subject to contract? Volunteers as providers of community care for elderly people and their supporters
The Role of Local Groups in Trunk-Road Consultation
Dimensions sociales de la mortalité infantile à Montréal au milieu du XIXe siècle
L'analyse des taux de mortalité infantile dans la cohorte de 4 000 enfants nés à Montréal en 1859 porte à croire que l'appartenance à une communauté culturelle pèse plus lourd que le métier du père, le loyer familial, le quartier et le type d'habitat. Parmi les Canadiens français 27,6 % des enfants sont morts avant l'âge de un an. Ce taux est nettement plus que ceux des protestants (18,6 %) et des Irlandais catholiques (20,0 %), malgré la misère …
Subject to contract? Volunteers as providers of community care for elderly people and their supporters
The Mis-treatment of Elderly People
Disability and employment
This article explores the nature of disability employment policy drawing on evidence from fifteen countries. In line with earlier sociological approaches to disability it describes two ways of framing policy in the area. These two paradigms are developed and used to critically evaluate employment policy under the headings: legislative measures, open employment-financial employment support services and sheltered/supported provision. The dilemmas t…
Beneath the Banyan Tree
(1999). Beneath the Banyan Tree: Popular Views of Taxation and the State during the Republican and Reform Eras. Twentieth-Century China: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 1-42
A deadly discrimination among Montreal infants, 1860–1900
We compare Montreal's three largest cultural communities – French Canadian, Irish Catholic, and Anglo-Protestant – with respect to infant survival over the forty years 1860–1900. From three birth cohorts we present evidence for a powerful and persistent cultural dimension which outweighs distinctions of social status. The local cultural mix offers insights into mechanisms operating through a chain of cultural practices, property interests, ethnic…
Markets from Culture
Institutional logics, the underlying governing principles of societal sectors, strongly influence organizational decision making. Any shift in institutional logics results in a similar shift in attention to alternative problems and solutions and in new determinants for executive decisions. Examining changes in institutional logics in higher-education publishing, this book links cultural analysis with organizational decision making to develop a th…
Disabled People, Employment and Social Justice
Since it came to power in 1997 the Labour Government has conceived of low levels labour market participation by disabled people as not just an economic concern but also an indicator of social exclusion or social injustice. This article presents some evidence about inequalities between disabled and non-disabled people in the labour market; reviews the evidence on discrimination in employment and discusses the potential of anti-discrimination legis…
Special and Mainstream Services in Europe, and the Case of the United Kingdom
Alors que l’idée selon laquelle les personnes handicapées ont besoin de services de réadaptation et d’aide à l’emploi spécifiques était profondément enracinée en Europe, l’Union européenne a affirmé son engagement en faveur de la prise en compte des handicapés dans les politiques de l’emploi visant l’ensemble de la population ou « mainstreaming » . Après une rapide définition de cette approche, cet article expose les raisons du maintien de la pré…
Panorama des dispositifs, spécialisés ou non, existant en Europe et l'exemple du Royaume-Uni
Alors que l’idée selon laquelle les personnes handicapées ont besoin de services de réadaptation et d’aide à l’emploi spécifiques était profondément enracinée en Europe, l’Union européenne a affirmé son engagement en faveur de la prise en compte des handicapés dans les politiques de l’emploi visant l’ensemble de la population ou « mainstreaming » . Après une rapide définition de cette approche, cet article expose les raisons du maintien de la pré…
Disability in the UK
In this article we identify the key survey data for examining the issue of equality in the lives of disabled people in the UK. Such data is essential for assessing change in quality of life over time and for the evaluation of the impact of policy initiatives. For each data source we consider definitions, data collection, issue coverage, sample size and data access. It is evident that there is only limited survey data on the lives of disabled peop…
At the Crossroads of Empires
Peopling the North American City
Many North American cities trace their population booms to the nineteenth century when immigrants and migrants flooded emerging industrializing urban centres in search of better lives. Peopling the North American City examines this phenomenon in Montreal through the eyes of a thousand couples to construct both an intimate portrait and a compelling overview of life in a nineteenth-century metropolis
Mortality in late nineteenth-century Montreal
In the City of Montreal, 1881, the presence of three cultural communities with different profiles of economic status makes it possible to observe the way social settings affected survival over a lifetime. Regression models show culturally determined maternal factors dominant for infants, and persistent throughout childhood. For post-neonates, children aged 1-4, and adults aged 15-59 household poverty has a comparable effect. Among adults, a gende…
Marrying 'the Other
This paper examines the determinants of ethno-religious intermarriage in Quebec over a century as an indication of integration in a province where minority/majority relations are distinct from the rest of Canada. Drawing on previous work by Kalmijn and others outside of Canada, we distinguish between cultural preferences and structural factors and continue a long tradition of such studies within Canada by using the manuscript censuses. We use dat…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Canadian Identity and History (4 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Business (3 works)