Editor's Comments/Mot Du Redacteur

This issue will appear in the heart of what might be described as the "conference season" for sociologists. In Canada, the Canadian Sociological Association will have its annual conference in Vancouver, June 3-6 at the University of British Columbia with the theme "Global Perspectives: Thinking Beyond Borders." Shortly thereafter, the American Sociological Association will be meeting July 1-4 in Boston. The International Sociological Association is holding its first ever "Sociological Forum" in Barcelona, Spain from September 5-8 with hundreds of presenters. In addition, there are many other regional and subject-specific sociological meetings being held over the upcoming months, such as the International Arctic Social Science Association in Nuuk, Greenland, August 22-26 (at which I am presenting), and the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand which is meeting in Dunedin, November 26-28. At these meetings, thousands of sociologists will be presenting ideas intended to both help understand and shape the social world. As Editor of the CRS-RCS, I call upon every one of you who is presenting at these or other meetings to please prepare your ideas in a form suitable for publication and to send them to this journal for peer review and potential publication. We seek quality sociological analysis from Canada and the world. Moreover, the CRS-RCS is one of the premier outlets for your ideas and findings. Not only are we the only journal of general sociological analysis now printed in Canada, but all works that appear in our pages are also easily accessible online, throughout the world, using the Synergy electronic service of our new publisher Wiley-Blackwell. As well, Wiley-Blackwell will be displaying the CRS-RCS at the conferences of the CSA, ASA, ISA, and hundreds of other meetings throughout the world. In short, publishing in the "new" CRS-RCS is one of the most likely ways that your ideas will get noticed and have an "impact" on the field, and on the world.