John Porter Vertical Mosaic Analysis

John Porter was a highly influential sociologist; his primary focus surveyed the complexity of social class in relation/association with to stratification. Porter’s most distinguished work, “The Vertical Mosaic: An analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada”, published in 1965. Porter investigates concepts such as, equality of opportunity and the exercise of the power by bureaucratic, economic and political elites in Canada. Porter desired to challenge capitalism and envisioned a classless society that did not have any “barriers to opportunity” (Porter, 1965, p. 4). Porter postulates,
“Canada is probably not unlike other western industrial nations in relying heavily on its elite groups to make major decisions and to determine the shape