Paul Gingrich

Professor
Department of Sociology and Social Studies
University of Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan
S4S 0A2

Telephone: 306-585-4196
Fax: 306-585-4815
email: paul.gingrich@uregina.ca
website: http://leroy.cc.uregina.ca/~paulg

Current Teaching:

• Introduction to Social Theory, Sociology 250
• Issues in Modern Sociological Theory, Sociology 304
• Theories of Social Class and Power, Sociology 308
• Social Issues, Sociology 204
• Sociology of Work, Sociology 310
• General Methods of Statistics, Social Studies 201
• Applied Methods: Quantitative Approaches, Social Studies 306
• Research Methods II - Multivariate Statistics, Sociology 405

Current Research Interests:

Immigration and Integration

• Member of the Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration. Prairie Centre website.
• Co-investigator with Tracy Peressini and Polo Diaz in a project examining factors related to the economic integration of immigrant households. Details.
• Refugee settlement and integration in Regina. Details.

Multiculturalism

• Meanings of multiculturalism. Details.
• Newcomers' and students' understandings of multiculturalism.

Community

• People and community in rural Saskatchewan. Details.
• Family farms in Saskatchewan. Details.
• Rural survival strategies. Details.

Population and Labour Force

• Incomes of young people and families.
• Family wage. Details.

Administrative:

• Executive of Council, University of Regina, member.
• Research Ethics Review Committee, University of Regina, member.
• University of Regina Faculty Association, Chair of Grievance Committee, member of Executive and Internal Management Committee (1997-1998).
• Honours and Graduate Committee, Student Research Fund, Library Ordering, Department of Sociology and Social Studies.
• Program Committee, Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration, member. Prairie Centre website.

Community Work:

• Regina Open Door Society, member of board.
• Media commentary on social and economic issues.

Detailed Vitae:

Background:

• Birth: March 7, 1942, Chatham, Ontario, Canada
• Citizenship: Canada
  

Education:

• All but dissertation completed, Ph.D. program, Department of Economics and Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 1966-1971. June 1998 UM Reunion.
• M. A., Economics, University of Toronto, 1966.
• B. A. (Honours), Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, 1964.
• Secondary School: Glencoe District High School, Glencoe, Ontario, 1955-57 and 1959-60; Rockway Mennonite School, Kitchener, Ontario, 1957-1959.
• Primary School: S. S. No. 5, Mosa Township, Newbury, Ontario.

Employment:

• July 1, 1992 to present, Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Studies, University of Regina.
• July 1, 1980 to June 30, 1992, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Studies, University of Regina.
• July 1, 1980 - June 30, 1983, Head, Department of Sociology and Social Studies, University of Regina.
• 1976-1980, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Studies, University of Regina.
• 1972-1976, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Studies, University of Regina.
• 1971-1972, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana.
• 1969-1971, Instructor (part-time), Department of Economics, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, Michigan.
• 1969-1971, Teaching Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Summer, 1967, Research Assistant, The Population Council, New York City.
• 1966-1969, Research Assistant, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Summer, 1964, Instructor, Frontier College.
• Summer, 1962 and 1963, Clerk, Special Calculation Division, London Life Insurance Company, London, Ontario

Teaching:

• Statistics and Methods. Introductory Statistics, Quantitative Methods for Sociology, Applied Research Methods: Quantitative Approaches, Survey Sampling, Econometrics, Operations Research, Population Statistics and Analysis.

• Sociology. Introduction to Sociology, Evolution of Capitalist Industrial Society, Social Structure and Population, Social Stratification, Social Issues, Marxist Social Theory, Sociology of Work, Ethnic and Minority Groups, Theories of Social Class and Power, Introduction to Social Theory, Issues in Modern Sociological Theory.

• Economics. Introductory Micro and Macroeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Economics of Population, Introductory Political Economy, Canadian Political Economy.

• Non-Credit Classes. Survey Training Workshop, Survey Design and Analysis and Analysis of Survey Data (University of Regina Extension); Inflation and Economic Trends (Regina Labour Council and CUPE); LATEX word-processing program; Survey Sampling, SPSS and Data Analysis (Universidad de la Serena, Chile).

Honours and Graduate Committees:

• Member of 30 M.A. committees, 1972-1997, of which I supervised or co-supervised 12.
• External examiner for 5 M.A. oral exams, and chair of oral exam for 1 M.Ed. student.
• 13 honours committees, 1972-1997.

Current Research Project:

• . Co-investigator with Tracy Peressini (Principal Investigator) and Polo Diaz (Co-investigator) of Factors Related to the Economic Integration of Immigrant Households into Canadian Society: The Adaptation of Decision-Making Processes, Gender Relations and Survival Strategies in Immigrant Households. A survey of individuals and households in Regina, Saskatchewan will provide the data for this study. The survey is being conducted in January through June, 1998, with the project scheduled to complete in August, 1998. The project is funded by the Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration, with support from the University of Regina, the Regina Open Door Society (RODS), and Immigrant Women of Saskatchewan. Contact Paul Gingrich or Tracy Peressini for further information. Back to current research.

Scholarship, Research, Publications, and Papers:

• Social Studies 306 Manual: Fall 1997 (Regina, University of Regina, September, 1997). This was a revised and updated version of Manual for the Student Employment Survey: Social Studies 306 Research Project, with Sandra Rollings-Magnusson (Regina, University of Regina, January, 1996).
• Paper presented with Christopher J. Fries, "A 'Great' Large Family: Understandings of Multiculturalism Among Newcomers to Canada," National Symposium on Immigration and Integration: New Challenges, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 27, 1996. Back to current research.
• Student Workbook to Accompany Arguing with Numbers: Statistics for the Social Sciences, with the assistance of Victor Thiessen (Halifax, Fernwood Publishing, 1995).
• Refugee Settlement and Integration in Regina: Removing the Barriers (Regina, University of Regina, 1995). Report of a Project Initiated by the Saskatchewan Association of Immigrant Settlement and Integration Agencies (SAISIA). Contract with SAISIA, 1992-1994. The paper "Refugee Settlement and Integration in Regina" is a short version of this publication. The paper was presented at the Ethnic, Linguistic, and other Cultural Dimensions of Demographic Behaviour session of the Canadian Population Society, joint session with the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Learned Societies, St. Catharines, June 2, 1996. Back to current research.
• "Crisis and Community in Rural Saskatchewan," with P. Diaz, in D. Hay and G. Basran, editors, Rural Sociology in Canada (Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1992). An earlier version of this paper was "People and Community in Rural Saskatchewan," with P. Diaz, paper presented at the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association and Canadian Association of Rural Studies, Calgary, June 13, 1994. Back to current research.
• Introductory Statistics for the Social Sciences (Regina, University of Regina, 1992, 1993).
• "L'Exploitation Familiale en Saskatchewan: la municipalité de Emerald," with Alicja Muszynski, paper presented to the Canadian Association of Rural Studies, Victoria, British Columbia, May 29, 1990. Back to current research.
• "Survival Strategies in Saskatchewan," with P. Diaz, paper presented to the Canadian Association of Rural Studies, Quebec City, June 1989. Back to current research.
• "Measures of Association in 2x2 Tables," 1988, unpublished.
• Social Studies 201 SPSSX Manual, originally written in 1985, revised each year from 1985 through 1991.
• "Decline of the Family Wage," Perception, Vol. 7, No. 5, May/August 1984. The data for this article came from "The Changing Economic Position of Young Individuals and Families: Effects on Labour Force Participation and Fertility," a research project funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, 1980-81. Back to current research.
• Co-author with Fred Caloren and Michel Chossudovsky, Is the Canadian Economy Closing Down? (Montreal, Black Rose, 1978). Much of the material for my section of this book was published in an earlier version in "Unemployment: A Radical Analysis of Myth and Fact," Our Generation, Vol. 12, No. 3, Spring, 1978.
• Co-author with Gavin Jones, "The Effects of Differing Fertility Trends and of Educational Advance on the Growth, Quality and Turnover of the Labour Force," Demography, Vol. 5, No 1, 1968, pp. 226-248.
• Co-author with Paul Demeny, "A Reconsideration of Negro-White Mortality Differentials in the United States," Demography, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1967, pp. 820-837.

Book Reviews:

• Review of Cecilia Danysk, Hired Hands: Labour and the Development of Prairie Agriculture, 1880-1930, Published in Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 34:4, November, 1997, pp. 441-442.
• Review of Satadal Dasgupta Lanham, ed., The Community in Canada: Rural and Urban. Published in Great Plains Research, Volume 7, No. 1, Spring, 1997, pp. 161-162.
• Review of R. Beaujot, Population Change in Canada: The Challenge of Policy Adaptation. Published in Journal of Comparative Family Studies, XXIV, 2, 1993, pp. 253-255.
• Review of L. Biggs and M. Stobbe, Devine Rule in Saskatchewan (Fifth House, Saskatoon, 1991). Published in Briarpatch, Vol. 20, No. 4, May, 1991, pp. 29-31.
• Review of R. Warburton and D. Coburn, editors, Workers, Capital, and the State in British Columbia: Selected Papers (University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1988). Published in Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 27:2, May, 1990, pp. 256-258.

Administrative Work (University of Regina):

• Grievance Committee, University of Regina Faculty Association, member, 1994 to present. Vice-Chair, 1995-1996. Chair, 1996-1997 and 1997-1998.
• Executive, University of Regina Faculty Association, member 1996-1998, 1987-91, 1983-4.
• University of Regina Faculty Association, Member of Drafting, Nominating and other committees at various times, 1984-91.
• Internal Management Committee, University of Regina Faculty Association, 1996-1998.
• Executive of Council, member, July 1994 to present, July 1991 - June 1992, July 1987 - June 1989, July 1980 - June 1983.
• Special Council Committee on the Financial Crisis, and Ad Hoc Committee following this, 1987-88.
• Chairman, Committee to Review New Class Proposals, October 1982 to June 1984.
• Human Subject Research Ethics Review Committee of Graduate Studies and Research, member, 1995 - 2000.
• Advisory Committee to Research and Academic Computing, member, October 1981 - June 1984 and 1976 - 1979
• Faculty of Arts, Performance Review Committee,
• Dean of Arts Executive, member, July 1980 - June 1983.
• Human Resources Seminar Planning Committee, member, 1982-1983.
• Demography Research Program Steering Committee, member, 1978-1979.
• Advisory Committee on the President's Fund, member, 1978-1979.
• Curriculum Committee, Faculty of Arts, member, 1987-1992.
• Faculty of Arts representative to Administration and to Physical Activity Studies, 1986-1991, 1994-1997.
• Sociology and Social Studies, Department Head, 1980-1983.
• Sample Survey and Data Bank Unit, Steering Committee member, 1976-1984.
• Member of various committees of the Sociology and Social Studies Department, 1972-1997.
• Library Ordering, Sociology and Social Studies, 1975 - 1997.

Membership in Professional Organizations:

• Canadian Population Society
• Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association

Public Talks:

• "Refugee Settlement and Integration in Regina," Regina Kiwanis, Downtown Club, November 17, 1993.
• "Cutbacks in Saskatchewan," Voice of the Handicapped, June 6, 1987.
• "Effect of the Economic Crisis on Labour and the Unemployed," Institute for Saskatchewan Studies, Saskatoon, October 1, 1983.
• "Monetarist Economic Policy in Chile," panel member at Chile Solidarity Conference, Saskatoon, September 18, 1983.
• "The Middle Class: Is the Tax Burden Unjust?" Let's Talk Series, November 15, 1982.
• "The Economic Crisis," Saskatchewan Law Union, October 23, 1982.
• Panel member, Cutbacks Conference, University of Regina, November 28, 1981.
• "Canadian and Saskatchewan Economic Trends," Saskatchewan Government Employees Union, May 5, 1981.
• Panel member and discussant, PLURA Conference, "Work and Making a Living in Today's Society," Saskatoon,, October 25, 1980.
• "The Inflationary Cycle: Coping at 19½ Per Cent," Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation, Consumer Education Short Course, Regina, August 18, 1980.
• "Unemployment Insurance Changes: Who Do They Affect Most?" Let's Talk Series, October 9, 1979.
• "Inflation: Causes and Effects," Saskatchewan Government Employees Association Labour School, April 20, 1979.
• "Canadian Economic Trends," Provincial Teachers' Caucus, Saskatoon, April 7, 1979.
• "Are Women the First To Be Laid Off and Why?" Let's Talk Series, March 7, 1979.
• "Women as Scapegoats for Unemployment," Let's Talk Series, October 25, 1978.
• "Effects of Wage Controls," Cooperative Division, Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union, Regina, May 14, 1977.
• "The Economy," Saskatoon and Area Political Education School, CAnadian Union of Public Employees, April 2, 1977.
• "Economic Trends," Saskatchewan Government Employees Association, Regina, July 5, 1976.
• "Wage Controls," Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union, Members' educational, Moose Jaw, April 5, 1976.
• "Effects of Wage Controls in the Canadian Economy," Estevan Labour Central, April 3, 1976.
• "Imperialism and Inflation," "Domestic Economic Strategies," and seminar participant, Canadian Union of Public Employees, Saskatchewan Staff Training Seminar, March 10-12, 1976.
• Instructor, Regina Labour Council educational on inflation, February 12-14, 1976.
• "Wage Controls: The Causes," Workers' Action, Saskatoon, October 31, 1975.
• "Economic Trends," Public Service Agreement Bargaining Representatives, Saskatchewan Government Employees Association, Regina, September 2, 1975.
• "Economic Trends," Wascana Centre Workers, Saskatoon Government Employees Association, May 5, 1975.
• "Economic Trends," Saskatchewan Government Employees Association, Saskatoon, April 20, 1975.
• "Current Economic Trends and Prospects," Sample Survey Food Forum, Prince Albert, April 5, 1975.
• "Class Structure of Saskatchewan," Regina Union Centre, March 2, 1975.
• "Inflation," Moose Jaw Union Centre, February 13, 1974.
• "Saskatchewan: Profiteer in the World Food Crisis?" Let's Talk Series, Regina Public Library, November 26, 1974.

Publications:

• "Budget Bad News," Briarpatch, Vol. 19, No. 2, March 1990.
• "A Pulp Mill for the Asking," Briarpatch, October 1986.
• "Evaluating the Pied Piper's Performance" and "The Job Abolition Budget," Briarpatch, Vol. 13, No. 3, April 1984.
• "Effects of the Economic Crisis in Canada," Journal of the Institute for Saskatchewan Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, Spring 1984.
• "The Fraser Institute Gets What is Deserves," Briarpatch, Vol. 13, No. 1, January/February 1984.
• "Publicity of Poll Results Overlooks Role of Undecided Voters," Regina Leader-Post, October 21, 1983.
• "Chile: The Chicago Boys and their Monetarist Fiasco," Briarpatch, Vol. 12, No. 8, October 1983.
• "Tory Budget Chips Away at Social Programs," Briarpatch, Vol. 12, No. 4, May 1983.
• "Business Hit Hard by Economic Crisis," Briarpatch, Vol. 12, No. 2, March 1983.
• "A Rock Road for Utilities Review," Regina Leader-Post, February 4, 1983
• "Tories' November Budget Holds Few Surprises," Briarpatch, Vol. 12, No. 1, January/February 1983.
• "Unemployment Reaches Crisis Proportions," Briarpatch, Vol. 11, No. 9, November 1982,
• "Why are Interest Rates so High," interview published in CUPE News, Vol. 1, Nol. 9, January 1982 and The Dome, Vol. 54, 5.
• "Letting Unemployment Wrestle Inflation," Canadian Dimension, Vol. 16, No. 4, June 1982
• "All Dried Up," The Carillon, University of Regina, January 29, 1981
• "Understanding Inflation," The Dome, Saskatchewan Government Employees Association, Vol. 52, No. 4, April 1980.
• "'79-80 Budget: Effective Management?," The Carillon, University of Regina, March 15, 1979.
• "Record and Resources," Ontario Report, Vol. 3, No. 4, February, 1979.
• "Liberal Austerity Measures," Next Year Country, Vol. 5, No. 5, December, 1978.
• "The French Elections: A Look to Voting Patterns," Canadian Dimension, Vol. 13, No. 4, November/December, 1978.
• "Defining Unemployment Out of Existence," Canadian Dimension, Vol. 12, No. 3, Spring, 1979.
• "Permanent Inflation," Next Year Country, Vol. 3, No. 3, January/February, 1976.
• "The Last Two Turner Budgets," Next Year Country, Vol. 3, No. 2, October, November, 1975.
• Next Year Country Notes, various subjects, December, 1974 to September, 1976.

Community Work:

• 40 radio and television interviews, 1974-1996.
• 100 radio commentaries, 1974-1990. This includes about 90 weekly commentaries on the economy, CBC Radio Noon, 1979-81.
• Regina Open Door Society, Board Member, 1993 - 1995, 1996 - 1997.
• Children's soccer, 1988-94.
• Various Day Care Boards, 1981-1989.
• Briarpatch, Editorial Board, 1987.
• Board member, Regina Transition Women's Society, 1981-82.
• Member, Nicaragua Reconstruction Support Committee, 1981.
• Various Chile and Latin America support committees, 1974-80.
• Member of various committees of Saskatchewan Waffle, 1972-1976.

Updated December 31, 1997. Next update in June, 1998.

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