R SOC355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: American Imperialism, Social Change, Social Representation

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Rural Sociology
• Course: R SOC355
• Professor: John Parkins

Document Summary

4 approaches to defining rural: descriptive (population size, density, location, etc. , e(cid:454). Be able to distinguish between social change and social transformation: social change structural, changes in dynamics (ex. More women entering the workforce: social transformation deeper sense of change, more fundamental; has to do with social agency, community capacity to act. 1898 western provinces beginning to take shape. 1870 1911 massive population increase, very rapid settlement of the west. Ca(cid:374)ada"s (cid:374)eed for raw materials and markets: stuff being produced in ontario and quebec needed a market (ex. Stoves and stuff that would be sold to farmers) National security us expansionism: concern that the us would expand into the western part of canada. Settlement along the us/canada border would secure it. Immigrant settlement: ships arriving on the east coast were not finding much land to settle out there; needed to move west where land was available.