Collection search - Ronald Jay Silvers fonds [textual record, sound recording]

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Ronald Jay Silvers fonds [textual record, sound recording]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1966-1979.

Reference:

R4198-0-1-E, MG31-K14

Type of material:

Textual material, Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101939

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Ronald Jay Silvers fonds
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1966-1979.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

2.7 m of textual records.
1 audio reel (1 h).

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Fonds consists of a collection of "alternative press" publications which reflects Dr. Silvers' interest in the sociology of the "counter-culture" of the 1960s and 1970s; correspondence and other papers pertaining to the dispute over tenure for Dr. Silvers at the University of British Columbia between 1970 and 1972.

The fonds also contains a sound recording of an episode of the CBC radio program Ideas, entitled "The Underground Press", featuring interviews with writers from four Canadian underground papers, 1970.

Provenance:

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Silvers, Ronald Jay, 1933-

Biography/Administrative history:

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Silvers, Ronald Jay, 1933- : Ronald J. Silvers was born in New York City in 1933. He obtained a Master of Arts from the University of Texas in 1960 and a Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University in 1970.

Dr. Silvers came to Canada in 1964 and became a Canadian citizen in 1973. Between 1968 and 1972 he taught sociology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of British Columbia. In 1972 he began teaching in the Department of Sociology at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto, where he is now an associate professor.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a list of publications in alphabetical order under country of origin. MSS0702 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001062.pdf

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General note:

Received in 1980 from R.J. Silvers, Department of Sociology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Ont.

Arrangement note:

The titles of publications have been arranged in alphabetical order under country of origin, either Canada or the United States, or under "other foreign".
Subject heading:

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Sociology, [1966-1979] "counter-culture", [1966-1979]

Sociology - Study and teaching - Canada, [1966-1979] University of British Columbia (Vancouver, B.C.), [1966-1979]

Ronald Jay Silvers - Correspondence, [1966-1979]

Underground press publications, 1966-1979

Underground press, 1966-1979

Social history - 1960-1970, [1966-1979]

University teachers - Canada - Tenure, [1966-1979]

Sociologists - Canada, [1966-1979]
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1973-06-02)
1980-0124 MISA

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-K14
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000780.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Volume [MG31 K 14] 1--53

[Consultation 95 Open, no copying]

Volume [MG31 K 14] 54--55

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 702] 71

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

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Sound recording: Reproduction and use in any form requires the written permission of the CBC.

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Date modified:: 2024-04-09