Seasonal Sociology, Second Edition

Tonya Davidson, Ondine Park (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

486 Seiten

2025 | Second Edition
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
9781487556273 (ISBN)

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This introduction to sociology explores the relationship between natural seasons and social life, offering contemporary insights into how seasonal phenomena shape consumption, leisure, work, celebrations, and beyond.

Life in Canada is shaped by the seasons – marked, celebrated, enjoyed, and sometimes dreaded in ways that respond directly to the changing cycles in nature. Sociological thinking encourages us to question the aspects of everyday life that we may otherwise take for granted.
Seasonal Sociology takes a sociological approach to thinking about the seasons, providing a unique perspective for understanding social life. Each chapter in this collection explores key issues of sociological interest through the passage of time and seasonal change. The authors wield seasonality as a powerful tool that can bridge small-scale interpersonal interactions with large-scale institutional structures.
This collection of contemporary Canadian case studies is wide-ranging and analyses topics such as pumpkin spice lattes, policing in schools, law and colonialism, summer cottages, seasonal affective disorder, Vaisakhi celebrations, and more. The second edition introduces new chapters on Labour Day and organized labour, disability and online dating, maple sugar shacks, seasonal agricultural work, wildfires, and social movements like Pride and Black Lives Matter. Seasonal Sociology ultimately offers fresh, provocative ways of thinking about the nature of our collective lives.

Tonya K. Davidson works as a sociologist in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. Ondine Park works as a sociologist in the Department of History and Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Tonya K. Davidson, Tara Milbrandt, and Ondine Park

FALL

1 The Rideau Canal in Fall: Understanding Ontology and Epistemology with Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Zoe Todd

2 Back to School Season: Schools and the Social Organization of Crime
Heather Rollwagen

3 Pumpkin Spice Lattes: Marking the Seasons with Brands
Sonia Bookman

4 Labour Day Weekend: The Shifts and the Cycles of Work
Susan Cake, Jason Foster, and Bob Barnetson

5 A Long Weekend of Rest and Labour: Thanksgiving, Holiday Body Work, and the Holiday Body
Heidi Bickis

WINTER

6 Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): The Medicalization of Winter Sadness
Alissa Overend

7 Season of Dreaded Joys: Adaptation, Enchantment, and Solidarity in a “Winter” City
Tara Milbrandt

8 Cupid’s Keyboard: Disabled People’s Experiences with Online Dating
Alan Santinele Martino

9 Extending Law’s Reach: Winter, Accusations, and the Colonial Encounter
Matthew P. Unger

10 Cracked Ice: Hockey, Whiteness, and Masculinity in Sports
Nicole Neverson

SPRING

11 The Myth of the Sugar Shack: Identity, Nature, and Maple Syrup
Emma Bider

12 Spring Babies, Summer Weddings, Fall Divorces, and Winter Deaths: Seasons and Populations
Rania Tfaily

13 Alternative Spring Break: The Politics of Doing Good in a Globalized World
Nathaniel Laywine and Alan Sears

14 Peach Blossoms and Precarious Work: Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program on the Niagara Peninsula
Kristin Lozanski

15 Rites of Spring: Multiculturalism and the Celebration of Vaisakhi in Vancouver
Bonar Buffam

SUMMER

16 Wedding Season: The White Wedding as a Cultural Ritual of Heteronormativity
Ondine Park

17 Summer in Cottage Country: Expectations and Experiences of Canadian Nature
Tonya K. Davidson

18 Burning Season: The (New) Conflagrations of Summer
Mark Hudson

19 Social Movements Sizzle
James Cairns

20 Summer’s Gains and Losses: Children, Social Class, and Learning
Patrizia Albanese

Glossary
Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.07.2025
Zusatzinfo	33 illustrations
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 235 mm
Gewicht	840 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-13	9781487556273 / 9781487556273
Zustand	Neuware