{"title":"Meritocracy as Seen by Young People Living in Poverty in Quebec, Canada.","authors":"Quentin Guatieri","doi":"10.1111/cars.70019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Representations of meritocracy have mostly been studied through quantitative methods or from the \"winners\" of social competition's perspective. Based on 36 interviews with young people categorized as NEET (neither in education, employment, or training) in different regions of Quebec, this article reverses the gaze by studying their relationship to meritocracy. While reporting on the common challenges faced by these young people living in poverty, this research explores how they perceive meritocracy. By linking social background, life course and representations, the research identifies three distinct points of view on meritocracy among participants: rejection, tension, and internalization. The paper concludes by emphasizing the value of qualitative studies and the need to consider various registers and scales of analysis (family, social circle, social hardships, job market, and education experiences) to better understand how individuals perceive the social order.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145253718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Concerted Cultivation in Canada: Class-Based Approaches to Parenting.","authors":"Gerry Veenstra","doi":"10.1111/cars.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The literature on concerted cultivation describes how higher-class parents reproduce their social class standing in their children by engaging in 'cultivating' parenting practices. I use Latent Class Analysis and multinomial logistic regression applied to survey data from Canada to inductively uncover distinct approaches to parenting and then determine whether they are reflective of parental social class. The uninvolved parenting approach is characterized by the absence of any of the cultivating attitudes or practices included in the study. The low aspirations parenting approach includes low expectations for the children but positive parent-child interactions and ensuring that the children successfully complete their homework. The demanding parenting approach involves high aspirations for the children, saving for the children's postsecondary education and enrolling the children in extracurricular activities but spending little time involving themselves in their children's homework or talking with their children about school-related issues. The involved parenting approach encompasses nearly all of the cultivating attitudes and practices included in the study. The uninvolved approach tends to be adopted by lower-class families, the demanding and involved approaches tend to be adopted by higher-class families and the low aspirations approach is situated between these positions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145132405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Neil Guppy, Maya Balzarini, Kamila Kolpashnikova, Katherine Lyon
{"title":"Changing Patterns of Gender Representation in Canada's Technology Sector and the Care Economy: Two Differing Tales.","authors":"Neil Guppy, Maya Balzarini, Kamila Kolpashnikova, Katherine Lyon","doi":"10.1111/cars.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gender segregation is a persistent form of labour market inequality, though patterns differ across time and economic sectors. Focusing on the care economy and the technology sector, we examine longitudinal trends in gender distributions for educational credentials and occupational participation. This sector-specific analysis reveals two polarized patterns of gender segregation. In market-based care activities, labour force gender imbalance is intensifying even in the face of labour shortages. Fewer men are found in most care and communal fields of study and occupations. In the technology sector, and despite concerted efforts to improve gender balance, little change has occurred in the share of women in computing, engineering, and physics. This lack of gender change in key subfields of the technology sector is, however, often obscured by women's increasing prominence in the biological and life sciences. While there has been a historic erosion of gender segregation in Canadian schooling and the labour force, the current extent of segregation remains high, and its erosion has not only stalled in the technology sector but also in the care sector, where gender imbalance is seriously worsening. In both sectors, gender-responsive recruitment is essential, but recruitment must be nuanced and targeted to specific fields of study and occupations.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145093031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-theorizing the Sexual Minority Closet: Evidence From Queer South Asian Women.","authors":"Sonali Patel","doi":"10.1111/cars.70016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.70016","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Scholarship generally assumes the closet is a place of safety from the perceived risks associated with coming out. However, this overlooks its function as a source of violence, particularly for those belonging to multiple marginalized communities. Drawing on 40 qualitative interviews with second- and 1.5-generation queer South Asian women (QSAW) in Canada, this article offers a re-theorization of the closet as a dual site of safety and violence. My findings show that the convergence of sexual expectations of coming out with ethnic demands of staying closeted exacerbates QSAW's vulnerability to violence from family, the LGBTQ+ community, and intimate partners, who use violence as a tool to enforce, contest, and exploit the closet, respectively. Ultimately, the results stress the dangers of pressuring QSAW to come out to their parents. The findings are significant for understanding the intersectional complexities of the closet.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145082356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deservingness on the Front Lines: How Volunteers Navigate Moral Judgments in Emergency Food Distribution.","authors":"Carly Hamdon","doi":"10.1111/cars.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.70011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic marked a significant shift in the landscape of social assistance in Canada, as emergency support became more widely accessible. Faced with the prospect of rapidly distributing aid during an international crisis, this study draws on interviews with 19 volunteers from an emergency food program in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to explore how they determined which free food distribution strategies were appropriate. Findings show that decisions were shaped by cultural assumptions about deservingness and moral worth. Specifically, volunteers compared traditional food bank lineups, which were seen as stigmatizing and dehumazing, to the at home delivery service they implemented, which was considered more dignified. The decision to enact this free food distribution strategy also aligned with the neighborhood's ethos of social solidarity. By foregrounding how volunteers navigate moral judgments in their roles, this study contributes to broader sociological debates about the distribution of social assistance and the everyday moral labor involved in volunteer work.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144876716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revisiting the Sectoral Cleavage in Canada: Evidence From the Canadian Election Studies.","authors":"Matthew Polacko, Peter Graefe, Simon Kiss","doi":"10.1111/cars.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>According to the budget-maximizing bureaucrat model, public sector employees should rationally seek to increase government budgets to increase their own power. In contrast to most advanced democracies, class and sectoral voting has largely been neglected in Canada. The ideological and voting preferences of the public sector has been unexamined since the 1980s. Using the Canadian Election Study (1968-2019), we revisit and expand on this literature. We find that the public sector holds more economically leftist attitudes than the public and that a sectoral cleavage has emerged, with public sector employees increasingly supporting the leftist New Democratic Party (NDP). We also find that social class moderates these two relationships, as professionals and managers in the public sector are significantly more likely to vote for the NDP and hold more leftist economic attitudes than their counterparts in both the private sector, and the routine non-manual and working class in the public sector.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144876717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prestige at Play: University Hierarchies and the Reproduction of Funding Inequalities.","authors":"Julien Larregue, Alice Pavie","doi":"10.1111/cars.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the relationship between university prestige, disciplinary cultures, and the (re)production of funding inequalities in the humanities and social sciences. We combine qualitative and quantitative methods by analyzing: (1) data on 56,680 successful and unsuccessful grant applications submitted to the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council; (2) 43 interviews with past members of review committees, including in economics, history, sociology, and political science. Our findings show that university affiliations significantly influence funding allocation: even after controlling for other factors, scholars at more prestigious and larger institutions are more likely to secure grants for greater amounts. For the Insight grants, applicants affiliated with U3 universities receive, on average, nearly 20,000$ more than their colleagues from institutions outside the U15. This effect is strongest in disciplines where scientific quality is clearly defined and tightly linked to institutional status. In contrast, in disciplines where the definition of merit is more ambiguous and debated, evaluators rely less on university affiliation, and prestige plays a diminished role. These divergences highlight the need to distinguish between the formal, general norms adopted by funding agencies and the unwritten, situated norms that review committees rely on to evaluate and rank applications within their respective fields.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144859912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effectively Maintained Inequality in Canada Revisited.","authors":"Roger Pizarro Milian, David Zarifa","doi":"10.1111/cars.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The mass expansion of higher education (HE) systems during the 20th century pushed social scientists to theorize how high participation systems continued to reproduce inequalities across socio-economic lines. One popular theory in sociology, dubbed effectively maintained inequality (EMI), suggests that families from the upper economic strata would maintain their competitive advantage by not only acquiring increasing amounts of education, but also gravitating toward the most prestigious tracks within HE. Despite the \"flatter\" status structure of Canada's HE system vis-à-vis international counterparts, this is a theory that has received empirical support from several domestic studies. Through this study, we re-examine the EMI hypothesis using the 2005 Ontario University Applicant Survey (OUAS), a little-known and thus far unexamined dataset that offers notable advantages relative to those historically analyzed in the Canadian EMI literature, including representative coverage of applicants to Ontario universities, holistic coverage of academic and demographic controls, and the ability to analyze both within- and between-sector forms of status-seeking. Our statistical analyses suggest that applicants from privileged socio-economic backgrounds behave in ways consistent with EMI, gravitating towards more prestigious HE options. We conclude by sketching a path forward for social stratification research in Canadian HE.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144210216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Food Insecurity and Mental Health: A Moderated Mediation Analysis.","authors":"Lei Chai","doi":"10.1111/cars.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Extensive research has demonstrated the negative impact of food insecurity on mental health; however, the mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying this relationship remain underexplored. Using data from the 2022 National Health Interview Survey (N = 25,703), this study investigates whether sleep problems mediate the relationship between food insecurity and mental health outcomes-specifically depressive and anxiety symptoms-and whether marital status moderates this relationship. The findings indicate that sleep problems partially mediate the effects of food insecurity on depressive and anxiety symptoms. In addition, the impact of sleep problems on these mental health outcomes is less severe among married individuals compared to their unmarried counterparts. However, marital status does not moderate the relationship between food insecurity and sleep problems, nor the relationship between food insecurity and mental health outcomes. The analysis of conditional indirect effects reveals a more pronounced mediation effect of sleep problems among unmarried individuals. These results suggest a partial protective role of marriage in mental health and underscore the importance of addressing sleep problems, particularly among unmarried individuals, in understanding the interplay between food insecurity, sleep problems, and mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144008016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Market-Based Housing Initiatives Are Perpetuating the Homelessness Crisis: The Case of Nova Scotia and the Halifax Regional Municipality.","authors":"Sarah Jervis, Fiona Martin","doi":"10.1111/cars.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.70007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144049162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}