SOC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canadian Passport, French Revolution, Color Blindness
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Specifically race, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexuality, class, disability, regional culture (east cost & west cost, quebec, north & ontario) and family structures. There was no such thing as citizenship" until 1947, prior to that we were british subjects. He could impose rules & laws to anyone at his will. They were arguing that men should have rights: then, rights began to emerge in 1789 under french rev, unless you had property owning, you did not have the rights to vote. But in the canadian concept, citizenship does not emerge until 1947. Everyone who came to canada had to emerge into british culture, language and identity: our entire policy on the notion of assimilation. State has the ability and power to control the citizenship. 2 way street: you have obligations to the state and vice versa these obligations are legally bounding & are social contracts you enter into reciprocal exchange of rights and duties.
