POL214Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Louis Hartz, Pierre Trudeau, Melting Pot
Document Summary
Egalitarianism: (equality vs working hard for what you want) the poliical doctrine that holds that all people in a society should have equal rights from birth: ie giving ppl free healthcare no mater who they are. Ideas, assumpions, values and beliefs that shape out values and behaviors in poliics. Shape how we act as ciizens and poliical actors. How we shape our rules, how we treat leaders. Connecions between beliefs and acions through those beliefs. Poliical discourse: the way in which poliics is discussed and the rhetoric that is used in poliical associalion: symbols such as charter of rights, parliament hill, etc shape poliical discourse. Poliical socializaion: the process by which new generaions and immigrants are socialized into the poliical culture: through the educaion system, media, poliical paries, parents/friends, etc. The fundamental poliical values, beliefs, and orientaions that are widely held within a poliical community. Efects the way we use poliics, and the atempts that we make.
