SOC102H1 Chapter 7: Reading for Week 7. Book: Sense of Sociability, Chapter: 7
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Every region, nation or empire is defined by political, ecological, economic, social and cultural units. Nations are political units, when the nation and state don"t agree conflict can arise (quebecois, basques, Regions are both political, jurisdictional but are better understood as geographical, ecological, economic, social, cultural units. Whether divide by a physical, jurisdictional boundary, regions share environmental factor which leads to cultural similarities. This can explain the similarities in attitudes between americans/canadians. The 9 nations of n. a by garreau and the 4 societies of canada/us argues for similarities. Both; historic similarities, history of settlement result in social/cultural similarities, just like environment, which determines the economy. Bottomline: a common ecology produces similar economic activities, which result in similar lifestyles and attitudes. Lipset; the us is diff than canada, britain and australia cuz of revolution. Analyze units according to whether they are powerful central units or peripheral units. (maritimes to. Exchange (large scale flows of ppl, good, $, info) and domination.