POLSCI 4CA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eugenics
5 Feb 2021
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What"s the problem with ideas - on their own? or frameworks attach themselves to different ideational frameworks and define their interests. Ideas assist in the construction of issues/problems. According to blyth, they help reduce uncertainty by creating simplified narratives. Those simplified narratives then enable coalition-building, allowing actors to. Ideas allow agents to challenge existing institutional arrangements and the. Ideas can take the form of economic and social assumptions that either legitimize or. Following institutional destabilization, ideas act as blueprints for new institutions and. Ideas have no agency provide institutional stability moving forward challenge existing institutions and policies patterns of distribution that they enshrine. Many canadians believed that radical measure were justified to protect the community. In alberta, between 1928 and 1972, the alberta eugenics board approved the 99% of its from degenerates nearly 4800 cases. Young adults, woman and aboriginals were overrepresented in cases of mentally defective individuals in need of sterilization.
