SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Pierre Trudeau, Wayne Gretzky, Mina Shum
12 Jan 2017
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CBC Competition (2004)
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Tommy Douglas: Responsible for public health insurance
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Terry Fox: Raised money
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Pierre Elliott Trudeau:
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Sir Frederick Banting: Inventor of insulin
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David Suzuki: environmentalist
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Lester B. Pearson: Canada's role of peace keeper, came up w/ flag
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Don Cherry
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Sir John A. Macdonald: First PM
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Alexander Graham Bell: Longest serving PM
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Wayne Gretzky: Hockey player
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Top 10 nominations were defended by each celebrity. The top 10 voted by Canadians
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Apply the sociological imagination and see patterns: all men, all white men except for Suzuki.
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The top 100 is also mostly men.
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Most important Canadian women, number
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Nellie McChung: women's rights
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Celine Dion
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Laura Secord: won war of 1812 - burned down white house, prevented enormous attack on Canada.
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Avril Lavigne
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18: Shania Twain: singer song writer
41 of top 50 were white men.
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19 of 20 total women were white.
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Dominant culture tends to represent a specific POV.
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Norms of Canada shown by these numbers:
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The "Greatest" Canadian
Existence of dominant groups means there are subordinate cultures
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1759: France is defeated by Great Britain, surrendering political and economic control of "New France" (Quebec
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For 200 years, French Canada was under control of the English.
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Richard Riot - great hockey player. NHL was run by English. The French Canadians were source of pride in
hockey. Problem: all referees were English. The French thought that they were being unfair.
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Richard suspended after hitting English referee while fighting w/ another player that hit him.
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Sport becomes something for subculture to identify itself with.
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Quiet Revolution: Quebecers wanted to be in control of their province -> Emergence of the Bloc Quebecois as a
federal party to separate from rest of Canada.
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Subordinate Cultures: Quebec
Inflection: "The process of grafting new ideas, dramatic conventions, and technical advances on to old
conventions." (Mary Jane Miller, "Inflecting the Formula")
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One of the Canada's represented itself is to take American genres and inflect them
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Bon Cop, Bod Cop takes the codes and conventions of American genre and inflect them to speak to Canadian
issues.
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Canada = body that is ripped in half.
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Inflection was popular technique in publicly funded television. The goal was to create programming that could
present Canada to Canadians.
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Writing is corny: stereotypical, cheesy acting, corny story
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Is the film actually bad quality or
Low budget: bad quality
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Educational? Trying to teach Canadian history
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Boring?
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Downside was that while this was being funded, a lot of ppl weren't watching it. Reasons:
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Schitt's Creek
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Degrassi
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Life with Derek
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Trailer Park Boys
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Some Canadian TV:
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Canadian Genre Films
More contemporary
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Co-production and funded partially by CBS to be sold in the US.
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Moral ambiguity and character complexity
New Canadian shows aimed at Canadian and American audiences emphasize "quality" production values
and more complex narrative forms:
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Flash Point and Rookie Blue
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Canadian Cop Shows: TV
Week 11 - Canadian Subordinate Culures
Friday, April 1, 2016
10:21 AM
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