SOC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Distinct Society, Freedom Of Movement, French Revolution

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 300
• Professor: Kelly Train

Document Summary

Readings: augie fleras and jean leonard elliot (2007); tim rees (2003). The norm is the standard of who is canadian. It comes out of the enlightenment, it is the universal man. In canadian terms that means, a white anglo-saxon protestant upper class man. So when we use the term diversity, it is races, gender, ethnicity, class different from this man. When talking about families is anything different the than the nuclear family. Ontario is seen as the normative canadian culture. When did canadian citizenship first begin to emerge: there was no canadian citizenship until then, you use to carry a british passport. Until then they were british subjects, which were different from being citizens. Everyone who came to canada was therefore expected to conform the british culture and identity. If they thought there was no way you can assimilate into that, then you were not let into the country.