Ideological perspectives on Canada / M. Patricia Marchak.

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Marchak, M. Patricia, 1936-2010

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TextSeries: McGraw-Hill Ryerson series in Canadian sociologyPublication details: Montreal, QC : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 146 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0773590919
9780773590915

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

320.50971 22

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HN103 .M37 2011eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Originally published: Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1975.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

English.

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