Editor's Comments/Mot Du Redacteur

The publication of this issue (Volume 46, Number 1) marks the beginning of our second year of publication collaboration with Wiley-Blackwell. One of the advantages for both Authors and the Editor in our relationship with Wiley-Blackwell, is that you can now submit papers electronically. To do so, access www.canadianreviewofsociology.ca and follow the instructions for setting up an ID and Password. The on-line submission process allows us to carry out on-line, almost all the steps in the reviewing process. Thus, we contact prospective reviewers on-line in a process that includes the abstract of your paper for them to assess whether or not it is in their area of expertise. Likewise, we distribute review copies using the web-based process, and receive back reviews through it. The result is a more efficient and timely reviewing process. Of particular note is that the submission process requests that you provide names of four possible referees of your paper. As an Editor, I find identifying appropriate referees to be a very time consuming process. Sociology remains a discipline of competing paradigms and, as much as possible, I try to ensure that persons whose intellectual stance is similar to that of the writer, review works. I do so, because I believe that the quality of a manuscript should be judged by those most conversant with the ontological perspective embedded within it--and not by those who operate from a different conceptual perspective. It is unlikely that your manuscript will be sent for review to only those whom you suggest. However, if you provide names of possible reviewers, it does give me guidance on who you deem to be appropriate reviewers of your work.