SOC101Y1 Lecture : SOC101 Lecture #15
Document Summary
Social interaction medias such as facebook and twitter used to display acts of aggression and spread the news of demostrations. Hypotheses regarding the democratic uprising in the arab world. Hypothesis 3 (strongest: urban working and middle class uprising. Urban and literate individuals are now the power force. The likelihood of voting, phoning etc all declines more as you go down the hierarchy. The low income earners and less educators are less likely to vote. They think that there is no point to vote, their lives will never be the same. Canadians tend to vote slightly to the left (social concerns) Americans tend to vote slightly to the right (pro business capitals) Conservatives are the furthest to the right. Ndp are the furthest to the left. Immigrants that came to canada tend to vote for the liberals, because of their immigration policy that was implemented by trudeau. Liberal policies are more likely to become laws.
