CNST 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism, Red Tory
15 May 2016
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Extremely influential sociologist who wrote continental divide and agrarian. Socialism (not just about canada and the united states) Lipset embraced the american revolution as the founding moment for both nations (not just for america) Forged a revolutionary nation in the us, focused on democracy, a fierce individualism and distrust of authority. Forged a counter-revolutionary nation in canada, wedded to ideas of deference to authority, a strong state designed to protect it from the us, and hierarchy, including monarchy. This foundational moment was thus deterministic; it defined the structure not only of the government, but the character, behaviour and values of the people to the present day. Canada and the us were therefore fundamentally different societies. Closing chapter of continental divide is still whig, still tory (whigs wanted less authority invested in the monarchy and tories were conservatives ) What lipset tried to imply was that united states is still whig, and canada is still.
