Ideological perspectives on Canada [[electronic resource] /] / M. Patricia Marchak

• Autore: Marchak M. Patricia
• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca [N.Y.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (157 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.50971
• Soggetto topico: Ideology
• Soggetto geografico: Canada Social conditions 1945-; Canada Economic conditions 1945-; Canada Politics and government
• Note generali: Originally published: Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1975.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-139) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Ideology and social organization -- Individualism and equality -- Free enterprise in (relatively moral) nation states -- Classes in industrial society -- The old Left -- The new Left -- Ideology and social change -- List of tables -- List of figures.
• Sommario/riassunto: Marchak argues that liberalism and socialism have many commonalities, such as the goals of equality and freedom for citizens. Corporatism, however, is opposed to equality and promotes an authoritarian hierarchy, resembling the older conservative ideology. To support her argument, Marchak provides a general overview of the study of ideologies, analyzes liberalism and socialism in the context of Canada, and uses Marxist theory to explain past and present class structure and the emergence of a corporatist social structure. A valuable contribution to the debate about the society we live in, Ideological Perspectives on Canada attempts to look at ideologies from an objective standpoint, while admitting that analysts can never fully remove themselves from the web of their own society, which in the Canadian case is steeped in liberalism, socialism, and corporatism.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ideological perspectives on Canada
• ISBN: 1-283-83484-7; 0-7735-9091-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786500603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II