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Dr. Edward Bell

Edward BellDivision of Sociology and Family Studies
Office: BR 213
Email: eabell@uwo.ca
Telephone: 519 4328353 ext 28236

Academic Background

  • B.A., University of Victoria
  • M.A., University of Alberta
  • Ph.D., McGill University

Research and Scholarly Interests

  • Political Sociology
  • Behaviour Genetic Study of Politics
  • Social Movements
  • Social Change

Teaching

  • Statistics for Sociology (Sociology 2205A/B)
  • Research Methods in Sociology (Sociology 2206A/B)
  • Investigating the Social World: Quantitative Research (Sociology 3306A/B)

My teaching philosopy: "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire" (William Butler Yeats, with apologies to Plutarch).

Representative Publications

  • “Politics and the General Factor of Personality” (with Michael A. Woodley, Julie Aitken Schermer, and Tony Vernon). Forthcoming in Personality And Individual Differences.
  • “Consanguinity as a Major Predictor of Levels of Democracy: A Study of 70 Nations” (with Michael A. Woodley). Forthcoming in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
  • “Is collective intelligence (mostly) the General Factor of Personality? A comment on Woolley, Chabris, Pentland, Hashmi and Malone” (with Michael A. Woodley). Intelligence (2011) 39: 79-81.
  • Social Research Methods: Second Canadian Edition (with Allan Bryman and James J. Teevan). Don Mills: Oxford University Press (2009).
  • “The Origins of Political Attitudes and Behaviours: An Analysis Using Twins” (with Julie Aitken Schermer and Philip A. Vernon). Canadian Journal of Political Science (2009) 42 (4): 855-879.
  • “Catholicism and Democracy: A Reconsideration.” Journal of Religion & Society (2008) 10: 1-22.
  • “Sustaining a Dynasty in Alberta: The 2004 Provincial Election” (with Harold Jansen and Lisa Young). Canadian Political Science Review (2007) 1 (2): 27-49.
  • “Separatism and Quasi-Separatism in Alberta.” Prairie Forum (2007) 32 (2): 335-55.
  • “Ernest Manning.” In Bradford J. Rennie, ed., Alberta Premiers of the Twentieth Century, 147-82. Regina: University of Regina, Canadian Plains Research Center (2004).
  • "Prairie Politics: Why 'Right' in Alberta but 'Left' in Saskatchewan?" In Douglas Baer, ed., Political Sociology: An Introduction, 202-17. Toronto: Oxford University Press Canada (2002).
  • “Social Change." In James J. Teevan and W.E. Hewitt, eds., Introduction to Sociology: A Canadian Focus. Toronto: Pearson Prentice Hall (2001).
  • Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta. Montreal & Kingston: McGill- Queen's University Press (1993).
 
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