POG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Ownership, Red Tory, Rob Ford

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 110
• Professor: Tracey Raney

Document Summary

Political culture: fundamental values, beliefs, and orientation that is widely held in a political community (what are rights are, what our duties are, etc. 3 theories of political culture in canada: founding fragment theory: louis hartz. We want to look at the founding of a new society and it is argued that only a fragment of the political culture will help form the basis of a new society (english and french). Excludes minority indigenous population: formative events theory: seymour martin lipset. Wanted to assess value of change throughout a time span). Individual"s priorities will reflect their wider socio-economic environment (scarcity hypothesis). Individuals will place the greatest subjective value on the things that are in relatively short supply. If you are a homeless person, your priorities are going to be socio-economic based because you don"t have a roof over your head (broad perspective) Relationship between socio-economic environment and their value priorities is not immediate (socialization hypothesis).