SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: William Fielding Ogburn, Counter-Revolutionary
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Canada as a pluralism/ pluralistic society comprised of multiple cultural, religious, rural, ethnic, special interest groups. > changes in national culture > more liberal attitudes. > text spends a fair bit on differences between quebec and the rest of canada. Marginalization enshrined in india act of 1873 thus very little reason to celebrate. Dominant groups superiority violates freedom, democracy and equality. The pq governments plan would ban public sector employees > including teachers, doctors- from displaying or wearing religious symbols in the workplace. Leisure , self ful lment, tness, youth concern for environment. John porter (1965) said, over 3 decades ago, canadians , unlike americans, lack a unifying ideology. > yes there are universal human activities (storytelling, marriage, disposing of body) Vital to a groups cultural is its material expression- its things or stuff. Central to this is in technology with the type of technology setting the framework for groups nonmaterial culture. Ability for global communication virtually instantaneously 24/7.
