The Authors/Les auteurs

Jeffrey J. Cormier is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at King's University College the University of Western Ontario. His previous work includes rise of the Canadianization movement, published as The Canadianization Movement: Emergence, Survival and Success (2004). His current research project looks at the New Left in Canada.jcormier4@uwo.ca

Wolfgang Lehmann is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Bachelor of Administrative and Commercial Studies Program at The University of Western Ontario. He specializes in the areas of work, education, and social inequality. His main research focus is on the interplay between structural factors and individual agency in school-work transitions. wlehmann@uwo.ca

Maurice Pinard is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at McGill University. His research areas remain the sociology of social movements and of conflict in multicultural societies, especially the Quebec-Canada case. His recent publications include Un combat inachevé, co-authored with Robert Bernier and Vincent Lemieux, (Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1997), "The Quebec Independence Movement: From its Emergence to the 1995 Referendum", in Douglas Baer's Political Sociology: Canadian Perspectives, (Oxford University Press, 2002).maurice.pinard@mcgill.ca

Richard Ogmundson is a Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Victoria.lewis@uvic.ca

Gerry Veenstra is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia and a recipient of a New Investigator Scholar Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The majority of his published work pertains to social determinants of health such as socio-economic status, social capital and place.gerry.veenstra@ubc.ca