SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Canadian Citizenship Act 1946, Continuous Journey Regulation, Canadian Pacific Railway

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1375
• Professor: Olena Kobzar

Document Summary

Governing trouble and the making of a good citizen. Birth of the modern nation state; regulate state law. Key principles: political self determination, equality between sovereign states, principle of non intervention. Imagined communities : states were assumed to correspond to nations groups of people united by language and culture; nothing natural about the division of states. 3 models of integration: anglo (french) conformity prior 1945 (either had to be french or english person; be just like them , melting pot (accepted immigrants and assumed they would blend into one identity- the. Canadian identity: pluralism/ multiculturalism post 1945 (acceptance of all cultures in our society, yet still. Open doors: the more immigrants the better (to contribute to our economy) Only farmers need apply (the jobs rational people wouldn t want to do; the people more naturally adapted to that specific work)