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In this study, we address the problem of sexual harassment and abuse amongst Canada's high performance athletes. Research done in Canada and the United Kingdom has shown that sexual harassment and abuse remain serious problems in sport. For example, in 1993, Canadian athletes appeared on national television to talk about their sexual abuse experiences in three popular sports: rowing, volleyball and swimming. These revelations sent shock waves through the Canadian sport system. National sport organizations quickly began to look for ways to address sexual harassment and abuse by creating ways to protect their athletes. Results of this national study clearly indicate that sexual harassment and abuse are major problems for participants in organized sport in Canada. We conclude with an analysis both of why such violence occurs within the context of sport and of its persistance in modern sport.

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to study the view points of Quebec teachers regarding school board regrouping, school confessionality, and moral-religions education. The subject sample used was that constitued in 1978 by Cormier, Lessard, and Valois (1979). The results indicate that teaching personnel adopt divergent view points regarding the above questions and reflect the divisions found in the global society.

This article explores the strategic role played by middle managers in pluralist health sector organizations. It aims to capture the complexity of their strategy work during periods of change. The analysis identifies three attributes of strategizing, seen as activities influenced by the imposed or participative nature of change: 1) the creation of a network of alliances; 2) the negotiation of values; and 3) daily micro-practices.

Keywords: organisations pluralistes, rôle stratégique, cadres intermédiaires, strategizing, réseau de la santé, changement organisationnel, pluralist organizations, strategic role, middle managers, strategizing, health network, organizational change, organizaciones pluralistas, rol estratégico, cuadros intermedios, strategizing elaboración de estrategias, red de salud, cambio organizacional

This paper addresses the question of governance within science-based industries. Across 110 interviews of leaders or managers of biotechnology firms in Quebec, several models dealing with value creation revealed both the issue and nature of interactions between the projects of biotech firms and those of their financial partners. It is because of the radical uncertainties related to the question of mastery of the expert knowledge that a game of exchanges of behaviors takes place. It implies the various protagonists of two regulations, the regulation of the real innovation projects and the regulation of the financial projects, and a set of rules built from a mixed regulation.

Keywords: gouvernance, biotechnologie, incertitude, expertise, cognition, régulation, governance, biotechnology, uncertainty, expertise, cognition, regulation, Alta dirección, biotecnología, incertidumbre, conocimiento experto, cognición, regulación

AbstractIf design and innovation have been largely studied by researchers in management, this question is relatively less adressed in the craft context. This article deals with the design and innovation figures, identified after three years of work within a regional club associating both different craftsmen and researchers.Based on an empirical study of 15 craft firms in several sectors (sometimes traditional sector) results put into light several various shapes and stages in design and innovation processes.After the presentation of the different theoretical approaches of design and innovation and their limits in the craft context, we expose the research methodology and this original approach of regional club. Afterwards, the proposal of a typology of design and innovation couple is discussed and considered to characterize the cratfman as an original figure of project manager.

Keywords: Conception, Innovation, Artisanat, Projet, Management, Entreprise artisanale

AbstractThis study describes the results of a study which compared the educational and identity experiences of teenage students of Haitian origin in Montreal who belonged to the first or second immigrant generation. Half of the students, who had recently immigrated, were born in Haiti and had completed their first years of schooling there. The others, whose parents were immigrants, were born and raised in Quebec. By studying these two groups of youths it is possible to examine the similarities and differences in their adaptation to the school system as well as their cultural identity regarding their home country and country of residence. Compared to their peers who were born and socialized in Quebec, do the adolescents born in Haiti turn more towards their culture of origin and feel less close to the receiving community? Individual and group interviews revealed that the youths from both generations who participated in the study are very concerned about obstacles linked to their race and their status as immigrants. Most of the time, they manage to combine values from both Haitian and Quebec cultures in constructing their self-identities. Nonetheless, they feel a certain distance from the majority group, who is perceived as being responsible for the stigmatized collective image of their community. Finally, this study leads to a better understanding of the social interactions of teenagers of Haitian origin within the school and the challenges arising from identity development in a multicultural environment.

Keywords: élèves, immigration, origine haïtienne, identité, interactions sociales, students, immigration, Haitian origins, identity, social interactions

For some years, theatre studies in Québec have been the locus of multiple tensions and debates, partly resulting from their specific geographical and cultural location between Europe and North America. This study is intended to define the discipline's epistemological landscape in Québec by examining a corpus of writings from three academic communities on the issue of modernity. Having considered the treatment of this question by scholars from Québec, Canada, and the United States, we attempt to describe how theatre studies have evolved as a research area since they were established in the 1980s, and to identify the challenges they face in a context of disappearing boundaries between disciplines and erosion of the theatre as a shared reference in Québec culture.

Abolished in 1854, the seigneurial regime left a remarkable imprint in the Province of Quebec by perpetuating rents and seigniorial lands. The seigneur/censitaire relationship and the seigneurial way of life persisted into the late twentieth century in many communities. This article is part of a research on seigneurial persistence in contemporary Quebec and aims to analyze seigneurial memory. It stems from an oral histor”y project with seigneurial families throughout the St. Lawrence Valley. It postulates the existence of a distinctive family culture characterized in particular by a continuance of seigneurial practices and uses, a distinctive sense of otherness in the Quebec countryside, and a family memory revealing seigneurial values brought and transmitted by the descendants of these families, be they nobles or commoners, francophones or anglophones.

“Follow the money” is now a well-established practice of policing and intelligence. The fight against money laundering and terrorist financing is located at the interface of finance and security. Financial surveillance is based on cooperation between two groups of actors who have different motivations and different know-how. Indeed, the blurred notion of “dirty money” has become the meeting point of a constellation of interests and of two logics of action that are related to law enforcement authorities and financial institutions. With respect to the anti-money laundering apparatus in United Kingdom, the article highlights the articulation of these logics of action around a misunderstanding regarding the meaning of the fight against “dirty money”. Here, the misunderstanding does not represent an obstacle to the elaboration and the operationalization of a specific policy. On the contrary, it is a precondition for this policy. While there are oversights and differences of interpretation about the “problem” to be addressed and the aims to be achieved, this situation paradoxically contributes to the formation of the mixed battalion of financial surveillance professionals.

Keywords: argent sale, malentendu, renseignement, risque, surveillance, dirty money, misapprehension, intelligence, risk, surveillance, dinero sucio, malentendido, inteligencia, riesgo, vigilancia

SummaryStructuralism (or determinism) in the sociology of culture seeks to understand human symbolic effort as the expression or outcome of constraints generated by the placement of persons and groups in social structures. Voluntarism in the sociology of culture conceives culture less as the expression of social constraints than as a series of symbolic repertoires or resources that can be actively invoked as modes of shaping social structure or dealing with personal problems... This paper is an effort at integrating the two modes of doing sociology of culture by examining the strengths and weaknesses of several empirical studies representing each of the two modes. Two themes are emphasized: first that the findings of each study generates ideological problems that each other deals with in different ways; second, that some of the differences between structuralism and voluntarism are results of the micro or macro perspectives of the authors, which, by themselves, are inadequate modes of explanation. The macro, perspective is typically inadequate because it pays insufficient attention to the micro-structures which stand between macro-constraints and symbolic choices: the micro perspective is inadequate because it pays insufficient attention to the macro structures which shape the micro resources available to persons and groups at specific times and places. The paper concludes with an analysis of how the two sociologies of culture might be integrated. ' 'Reductionism' ' is regarded as a false problem. If it means merely oversimplification, then we should all shun it. But one of the main thrusts of scientific analysis is toward simplification, and if reductionism means parsimonious explanation, then we should all seek it.