SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: 1969 White Paper, Luddite, Indian Act

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1000
• Professor: Terry Conlin

Document Summary

Part a: define & explain the significance of these terms. Source: violent masculinity comes from the source of tough guise. Summary: masculinity is a shield to protect a man. Men are expected to be tough, strong, independent and respected. Media and previous generations have created this current ideology of what is a real man. This false ideology has created violence in men. Jason kats film tough guise shows the impacts media and other generations have created of a man and violence. (rambo, 007, action figures, terminator). The ones who were against new technologies used to make labour easier. Summary: luddites were people who did not believe in technological progress. Luddites feared technological change and smashed machines as a means of violent protesting. Luddites were thought of as irrational, primitive and fertile. They did not like technology because it would replace them in the workforce. The first luddites were those in britain during the industrial revolution.