Card, Brigham Young
Sociologist, Educator
1914-

Dr. B.Y. Card received his BSc (1942) and BEd (1947) from the
University of Alberta and his PhD from Stanford University (1959).
He began his teaching career at the University of Alberta in 1945
and joined the Faculty of Education in 1950.  At his retirement in
1980 he had become professor of the sociology of education.
His major interests include community development and Indian
and Metis culture.

Multiple media, 1920-1991, 32.35 m   

Clippings, 1983-1987
Includes Canadian views on war and peace and the impact of
the nuclear threat on children.

Community planning and development, 1950-1987
Includes Community Planning Association of Canada.

Intercultural education research and teaching, 1951-1979
Includes Alberta Education Minister’s Advisory Committee on
Native People’s Education; and diffusion study of Harold
Cardinal's The Unjust Society.

Memberships, 1957-1985
Includes a study of professional associations.

Mormons, 1938-1991
Includes personal and family papers; missionary diaries,
1938-1940; sociological study of Mormonism, 1953-1980;
conferences on the Mormon presence in Canada, 1987 and
1991. 

Personal, 1920-1984
Includes Army service; education; Campus Cooperative
Residence (society).

Professional correspondence, 1950-1991

Publications, 1984-1985

Research projects, 1956-1986
Includes studies of the Metis; McKernan Community; moral
behaviour; attitudes to war; nuclear weapons; education in
Quebec.

Sociology of education, 1960-1980
Research notes; data.

Teaching, 1951-1980
Courses; students’ papers.

University departments, 1951-1976
Includes the Departments of Community Planning and
Sociology; the University Committee on Sociological
Research.

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