SOSC 1375 Lecture 5: Governing Trouble and the Making of a Good Citizen.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1375
• Professor: Olena Kobzar

Document Summary

Governing trouble and the making of a good citizen. Key principles: political self determination, equality between sovereign states, principle of non intervention cannot go in another country and invade them with bombs for examples. Imagined communities": states were assumed to correspond to nations, groups of people united by language and culture. Few immigrants before 1896: in fact a lot of people emigrants to us in search of labour (us restricted this immigration in the 1920s) Canadian pacific railroad 1885 (reflects the economy): needed something to connect canada to transfer products from province to province (cheaper to manufacture stuff in one location and transfer it) the railroad really united canada as a country. 3 models of integration: anglo (french) conformity (prior 1945), the melting pot, pluralism/multiculturalism (post 1945): cultural c-exist side-by-side and can still be canadian. Only farmers need apply": farming the prairies and the west.