POL314H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Louis Hartz, Robert Bourassa, Jean Lesage
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Tall puppy syndrome australians don"t like people who stand out, want to cut down and make everyone equal. Socialisation theory is originally written with no account of the influx of immigrations: louis hartz: canadian value change can be understood as a less version of. American value change: characters" social structure matters a lot, some argue canada is more collective than us can be traced to the counter- revolution in canada when us was undergoing american revolution. Structure vs culture: many people argue in the socialisation of our industrial society, there are certain phases in the society. Post-industrial society: the change is not in the capitals, but in knowledge drop in birth rate. Competing responses to the question of where do social values come from . Cognitive mobilisation tendency for the public to file an interest in politics. Cognitive capacity of public who has received high level of formal education they know more + they are more engaged in politics.