Abstract
The question of regional inequality has been a central concern of both Anglo-Canadian sociology and Franco-Quebecois sociology since the 1960's. Starting in the 1980s, the study of regional inequality became less popular in Anglo-Canadian sociology. In Quebec, however, the interest in regional phenomena has continued to grow. This article attempts to explain the seeming diverging sense of importance given to the region in the two main discourses of Canadian sociology. We can discern two main hypotheses that try to explain these differences. The first relates to the differing importance each group places on agency and structure. The second hypothesis concerns the definition of region. In this article we discuss the relative explanatory value of each of these hypotheses. We show that both of these explanation are useful.
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