Editor's comments/Mot du redacteur.

Editor's comments/Mot du redacteur. The publication of this issue (Volume 46, Number 1) marks thebeginning of our second year of publication collaboration withWiley-Blackwell. One of the advantages for both Authors and the Editorin our relationship with Wiley-Blackwell, is that you can now submitpapers electronically. To do so, access www.canadianreviewofsociology.caand follow the instructions for setting up an ID and Password. Theon-line submission process allows us to carry out on-line, almost allthe steps in the reviewing process. Thus, we contact prospectivereviewers on-line in a process that includes the abstract of your paperfor them to assess whether or not it is in their area of expertise.Likewise, we distribute review copies using the web-based process, andreceive back reviews through it. The result is a more efficient andtimely reviewing process. Of particular note is that the submission process requests that youprovide names of four possible referees of your paper. As an Editor, Ifind identifying appropriate referees to be a very time consumingprocess. Sociology remains a discipline of competing paradigms and, asmuch as possible, I try to ensure that persons whose intellectual stanceis similar to that of the writer, review works. I do so, because Ibelieve that the quality of a manuscript should be judged by those mostconversant CONVERSANT. One who is in the habit of being in a particular place, is said to be conversant there. Barnes, 162. with the ontological perspective embedded within it--and notby those who operate from a different conceptual perspective. It isunlikely that your manuscript will be sent for review to only those whomyou suggest. However, if you provide names of possible reviewers, itdoes give me guidance on who you deem to be appropriate reviewers ofyour work. In a previous Editor's Comment, I indicated that I wouldconsider manuscripts of varying length, from longer pieces to shortconceptual or research notes. If you submit longer works it is importantthat the additional length be justified. One such example is the paperby Victor Thiessen that appears in this volume. While almost twice theusual length, all reviewers recommended that it be published in itsentirety. However, this means that we have three, rather than the usualfour, papers in this Issue. All three papers in this Issue deal with aspects of postsecondaryeducation in Canada Education in Canada is provided, funded and overseen by federal, provincial, and local governments. Education is within provinicial jurisdiction and the curriculum is overseen by the province. . By coincidence, these three papers were allaccepted for publication at approximately the same time and it seemedappropriate to include them in a single issue. Thiessen provides insightinto whether socio-economic background factors explain the differencesin educational outcomes of youth from a range of ethnic backgrounds. Itprovides important new evidence of the relationship between opportunityand outcome. Eglin employs an ethnomethodology eth��no��meth��od��ol��o��gy?n.The branch of sociology that deals with the codes and conventions that underlie everyday social interactions and activities.eth approach to provide uswith richly textured insight into what occurs in university classroomsthat make them unique experiences. Stewart, Ornstein, and Drakich delvedeeply into the question of whether there are gender-based differencesin faculty promotion in Canadian universities. Though all are about postsecondary education in Canada, these threepapers deal with very different aspects of the subject and employstrikingly different methodological approaches. In doing so, theydemonstrate the complexity of the subject and the richness of insight tobe gained from the wide range of explanatory paradigms noted above. Enjoy! RALPH MATTHEWS, The University of British Columbia LocationsVancouverThe Vancouver campus is located at Point Grey, a twenty-minute drive from downtown Vancouver. It is near several beaches and has views of the North Shore mountains. The 7. Cette parution (volume 46, numero 1) marque le debut de notreseconde annee de collaboration avec Wiley-Blackwell. Un des avantages decette relation, pour les auteurs comme pour l'editeur, est que vouspouvez maintenant soumettre vos articles par voie electronique. Pour cefaire, vous n'avez qu'a vous rendre awww.canadianreviewofsociology.ca et suivre les indications pour inscrirevotre nom d'utilisateur et creer un mor de passe pas��s��?adj.1. No longer current or in fashion; out-of-date.2. Past the prime; faded or aged.[French, past participle of passer, to pass, from Old French; see . Le processus desoumission en ligne nous permet d'effectuer presque toutes lesetapes du processus de revision scientifique en ligne. Ainsi, nouscommuniquons par courriel avec les reviseurs potentiels et leur faisonsparvenir le resume de votre article afin qu'ils evaluent s'ilse situe ou non dans leur domaine d'expertise. De meme, nousdistribuons les fichiers a reviser en passant par le Web et recevonsceux revises de la meme facon. Il en resulte un processus de revisionplus efficace et plus ponctuel. Vous noterez que le processus de soumission exige que vousfournissiez les noms de quatre lecteurs potentiels pour votre article.En tant que redacteur en chef, je trouve que le fait de recherchermoi-meme les lecteurs eventuels constitue une tache qui prend beaucoup beau��coup? also boo��coo or boo��koo Chiefly Southern U.S.adj.Many; much: beaucoup money.n. pl. de temps. La sociologie demeure une discipline aux paradigmes qui sonten competition et, autant que possible, j'essaie de m'assurerque des personnes dont les positions intellectuelles sont semblables acelles d'un auteur auteur(ōtör`), in film criticism, a director who so dominates the film-making process that it is appropriate to call the director the auteur, or author, of the motion picture. revisent ses travaux. Je procede ainsi parce queje crois que la qualite d'un manuscrit devrait etre evaluee par lespersonnes qui s'y connaissent le plus dans la perspectiveontologique qu'il adopte--et non par celles qui interviennent apartir d'une perspective conceptuelle differente. Il est improbableque votre manuscrit soit envoye pour revision uniquement aux personnesque vous proposez. Neanmoins, si vous fournissez les noms de reviseurseventuels, cela m'indique qui vous estimez etre des reviseursappropries pour votre travail TRAVAIL. The act of child-bearing. 2. A woman is said to be in her travail from the time the pains of child-bearing commence until her delivery. 5 Pick. 63; 6 Greenl. R. 460. 3. . Dans un mot precedent du redacteur, j'ai mentionne que jeconsidererais des manuscrits de differentes longueurs, de plus longsarticles comme de courtes notes theoriques ou de recherches. Si voussoumettez de plus longs textes, il est important cependant que lalongueur lon��gueur?n.A tedious passage in a work of literature or performing art: "longueurs and passages of meretricious vulgarity"Stephen Schiff. additionnelle soit justifiee. Un exemple semblable sem��bla��ble?adj.1. Having a resemblance; resembling or like: unfamiliar symbols semblable to religious icons.2. Seeming; apparent.n. nous estdonne par l'article de Victor Thiessen qui parait dans le presentnumero. Meme s'il fait presque le double de la longueur habituelle,tous les reviseurs ont recommande qu'il soit publie dans sonentierete. Par contre, cela implique que nous ayons seulement troisarticles dans ce numero, au lieu de quatre comme a l'habitude. Les trois articles de cette edition traitent de certains aspects del'education postsecondaire au Canada. Par hasard, ces troisarticles ont ete acceptes pour publication presque au meme moment :l'idee de les inclure dans un meme numero s'est donc imposeed'elle-meme. Thiessen presente un sommaire s'efforcant dedeterminer si les facteurs socioeconomiques d'origine expliquentles differences des resultats scolaires des jeunes presentant un large eventail ethnique. Il fournit une nouvellepreuve importante de la relation existant entre les possibilites et leresultat. Le sociologue Eglin utilise une approche ethnomethodologiquepour exposer un riche compte rendu de ce qui se produit dans les classesd'universite qui deviennent des experiences uniques. Quant QuantA person with numerical and computer skills who carries out quantitative analyses of companies.quantA person who has strong skills in mathematics, engineering, or computer science, and who applies those skills to the securities aStewart, Ornstein et Drakich, ils creusent profondement la question desavoir s'il existe des differences fondees sur le sexe dans lespromotions des professeurs des universites canadiennes. Meme s'ils concernent tous l'education postsecondaire auCanada, ces trois articles traitent d'aspects tres differents etutilisent de maniere saisissante differentes approches methodologiques.Ce faisant, ils demontrent la complexite du sujet ainsi que la richessede la perspective qu'on retire de la grande variete de paradigmesexplicatifs notes ci-dessus. Bonne n. 1. A female servant charged with the care of a young child. lecture! RALPH MATTHEWS, Universite de la Colombie-Britannique