SOC 2080 Lecture : Slides and talking

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2080
• Professor: Anthony Winson

Document Summary

Rural sociology - lecture 5 shift of agrarian protest to the west: prairie populism. Populism: a core phenomenon of canadian political life both historically and today. Mixes core political ideologies of socialism, liberalism, conservatism. Opposition to elites(political and/or or economic) advocates more power to the people", the producers of society" etc. Doesn"t have an individual ideology producers - worked with hands (farm or industry) were not shared the wealth. Focus on capitalist elites and their allies in mainstream political parties ( liberal and. Favour active government; public enterprise, strong labour movement---they wanted the state to act on the behalf of people--- instead of getting government to favour certain people interest they wanted a state to be able to favour the majority. The people as coalition of farmers, workers, the poor, progressive intellectuals. Economic elites liberal and conservatives -> had strong ties with canada"s wealthy families.