SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Battle Of The Plains Of Abraham, Dominant Culture, Canadian Identity
17 Jul 2016
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Discourse and power (power is productive) (foucault) Multiculturalism policy of canada: recognize and promote cultural and racial diversity, freedom to preserve, enhance, and share cultural heritage, multiculturalism is a fundamental characteristics of the canadian heritage. Canadian identity is not static, always evolving. Popular culture functions as an important vehicle of nationalism: interpellation viewers, readers, and consumers of canadian popular culture forms and imagined community , a national point of view that links different canadians together. Average joe; representation of most people, the norm: white male. Canada"s british character still provides dominant definition of what it means to be. Are able to impose their values, language, and ways of behaving and interpreting behaviour as the norm in a given society. Top ten were all men, only one was non-white, many politicians. 1759; france is defeated by great britain, surrendering political and economic control of. New france (quebec) to the english for the next 200 years.
