Diploma Source Analysis Topics Flashcards
Robert Owen
Utopian Socialist 1771 - 1858
Humanitarian and philanthropist. Textile industrialist who sought to make better working and living conditions for his employees.
Institute for the Formation of Character: Community education centre.
Basically invented employer-employee relations and good working conditions.
Convincing capitalists to become more socialist and sharing. (Trickle down in a forced but peaceful way)
Adherence to Collective Norms
Groups usually impose norms, or standards, on their members as a condition of membership in the group.
Common Good
The common good is either what is shared and beneficial for all or most members of a given community, or alternatively, what is achieved by citizenship, collective action, and active participation in the realm of politics and public service.
Co-operation
Working together to achieve common interests.
Economic Equality
Equality of outcome versus equality of opportunity.
Fairness in economics.
Class System
People are being divided by income disparities.
Enlightenment
Intellectual and philosophical movement in Europe from 1685 to 1815. By celebrating reason; humans can understand the universe to improve conditions.
Classical Conservatism
A reaction to classical liberalism during its emergence.
Society should be organized hierarchical fashion, with elitist democracies, humanitarian leaders, maintenance of traditions, law and order.
Reactionary.
Command Economy
Rather than letting market forces dictate the production of goods and services, the government determines priorities and controls production and pricing.
Modern Liberalism
Opposes the interests of corporations, supports social safety nets, supports government action to reduce inequality, and increases diversity—capitalist welfare. Regulating economic activity, and protecting the environment. Centre-left.
Suffrage
The right to vote in political elections
Enfranchisement
Human Rights
Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more.
Labour Standards
Forced labour, child labour, good hours, breaks, benefits, wages, job security, safety, etc.
Labour Unions
Organization of workers formed to protect rights and interests against employers.
Mixed Economy
A system that combines aspects of both capitalism and socialism.
Public and private ownership of industry, market-based allocation with economic planning, and free markets with state interventionism.
Progressivism
Progressivism holds that it is possible to improve human societies through political action. As a political movement, progressivism seeks to advance the human condition through social reform based on purported advancements in science, technology, economic development, and social organization.
Socialism
Democratic.
Society is perfectible through careful government planning
Change must be peaceful and orderly.
Power and profit should be shared to achieve greater equality.
Welfare Capitalism
Capitalism includes social welfare policies.
Collective Responsibility
The PM is responsible for appointing Cabinet Ministers.
Government members must speak to the Canadian public as one voice.
Everyone is held accountable for failures. Ex. Silence
Illiberalism
When a liberal democracy acts in conflict with liberalism.
Responsible Government
The executive branch is responsible to the legislative branch.
Industrial Revolution
About 1760 - 1840.
The transition from creating goods by hand to using machines.
Urbanization leads to overcrowding, unsanitary living conditions, and exploitation by landlords and employers.
Women’s workplace equality, right to vote.
Child labour.
Economic Government Intervention Examples
Labour Unions
Minimum Wage
Welfare programs
Publicly owned property
America During the 60s
Civil Rights Movement 1954 - 1968
A nonviolent social movement to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement. Lead to more movements calling for equality and systemic justice, and environmental action.
Vietnam War
Proxy War of the cold war. Implementation of liberalism in South Vietnam. Caused Anti-war demonstrations.
TV made people do things.
Eric Foner, “Kennedy realized that the US simply could not declare itself the champion of freedom throughout the world while maintaining a system of racial inequality at home”
Suffragette
Women sought the right to vote through organized protest.
Communism
Authoritarian
Radical
Revolutionary
Internationalist
Capitalism is imperialist & exploitive by nature.
Government ownership & control of the economy.
Edmund Burke
1929-1979
Classical conservative. Change should honour the citizens of the past and the future.
Against tyranny in any form.
Against the general will of the people - leads to disinterested, uneducated rule.
Against the french revolution (and the previous French government)
For the American Revolution because it ended in a stable government.
