SOCI 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pierre Bourdieu, Noam Chomsky, Ethnocentrism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1005
• Professor: Christian Pasiak

Document Summary

Centre for student academic support (csas fourth floor of library) Ethnocentrism: the tendency for people to judge other cultures exclusively by the standards of their own culture. Examples of ethnocentrism in canadian or north american culture. Postmodernism: typified by eclectic mixtures of elements, the erosion of traditional categories and institutions; challenges the notion of a central, normative core; engages/in tension with the culture of modernity. American way of life: many canadians are still proud of the alternative canadian policy of encouraging immigrants and their descendants to maintain important aspects of their ancestral (cid:272)ultures (cid:894)for(cid:373)i(cid:374)g a (cid:862)(cid:272)ultural (cid:373)osai(cid:272)(cid:863) or (cid:862)(cid:373)i(cid:454)ed salad(cid:863)(cid:895) History of canadian culturalism: u(cid:374)til e(cid:272)e(cid:374)t years, edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374)al fo(cid:272)us (cid:449)as spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272)all(cid:455) o(cid:374) (cid:862)(cid:272)harter groups(cid:863) (cid:449)ith immigrants and first nations groups histories excluded. Immigration laws may demonstrate limits of canadian values- by examining their history, we see that canadian norms and values have changed over time.