Unit 2 - Poliitcal Philosophy
Learning Goals
By the end of this unit you should:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of Nationalism and how it is applied in Canada
2. Have analyzed various political theories.
3. Have applied approaches to studying politics to various issues by following the essay writing process
4. Communicated your understanding of political theory through seminar discussion
1. Demonstrate an understanding of Nationalism and how it is applied in Canada
2. Have analyzed various political theories.
3. Have applied approaches to studying politics to various issues by following the essay writing process
4. Communicated your understanding of political theory through seminar discussion
Unit 2.1 Introduction to Political Ideas
Intro to Political Philosophy | |
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Find the link to Aristotle's view of citizenship here.
Seminar & Essay Assignment - 20%Essays Due November 12th Beginning of Class.
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Throughout this unit you will encounter various political theories and theorists. However, for this assignment and for this unit you will be responsible for not just knowing a variety of theories, but for leading a seminar discussion on one theory and writing a short critique/analysis essay of another. Each assignment will be worth 10% of your overall grade.
For your seminar each person must choose a reading and each reading can only be chosen 1x. First come first serve. You also must choose a date for your seminar discussion.
You can choose any reading for your essay and more than one person can choose a reading for that, but I strongly suggest you closely look at the essay questions on the assignment below before choosing your reading (or before choosing the shortest reading).
For your seminar each person must choose a reading and each reading can only be chosen 1x. First come first serve. You also must choose a date for your seminar discussion.
You can choose any reading for your essay and more than one person can choose a reading for that, but I strongly suggest you closely look at the essay questions on the assignment below before choosing your reading (or before choosing the shortest reading).
Readings
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Seminar Sign - Up
Seminar Leader and Topic
Kayleigh - Social Democracy Briar - Libertarianism Sara - Liberalism Cam - Conservatism Reggie - Authoritarianism Mackenzie - Populism |
Seminar Date
October 7th October 12th October 19th October 26th November 2nd November 9th |
Thesis Success Criteria
1. 3 Arguments
2. 1 - 2 Sentences 3. Opinion (arguable) 4. Element of Fact (not silly) 5. End of the Introduction |
Note the example below. Red= Controlling Idea, Orange = Topic, Purple = 1st Argument, Blue = 2nd Argument, Green = 3rd Argument.
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Sample
Nationalism in democratic nation states is characterized by common ethnicity and cultural characteristics that leads to the use of oppressive ideologies, and structural violence.
Introduction Success Criteria |
1. Grabber/Hook
2. Connecting Sentences (Summary of your Poems or Stories) 3. Thesis |
Essay Organizer - Use the essay organizer to structure your essay if you like. If you have a different one you have used before or a different method, that is also fine. I suggest you do more pre - writing work and type your essay after it is fully organized.
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Conclusion Success Criteria
1. Do you restate your thesis in different language? You can have more than one sentence here!
2. Did you make a really good point early on? What was it? Did you remind your reader of it?
3. Do you end your essay with a thoughtful or powerful statement that draw further conclusions or fosters deeper discussion.
2. Did you make a really good point early on? What was it? Did you remind your reader of it?
3. Do you end your essay with a thoughtful or powerful statement that draw further conclusions or fosters deeper discussion.
Essay Success Criteria
1. Introduction with Grabber, Connecting Sentences and Thesis
2. Thesis
3. Body Paragraphs with Evidence from the reading that you explain and make connections to Real - World Examples
4. Conclusion
5. Proper Grammar and Spelling
2. Thesis
3. Body Paragraphs with Evidence from the reading that you explain and make connections to Real - World Examples
4. Conclusion
5. Proper Grammar and Spelling
Unit 2.2 Nationalism & Nation States
The Nation State | |
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Nationalism
Write down the most important think you learn from the video on Nationalism and how it relates to society today.
Historical Nationalism
Read the excerpt linked here Mazzini, 1852 (Italy). What is his view of nationalism and who/why it should be formed?
Read this excerpt from Mussolini, 1932 (Italy 80 years later) linked here. How does Fascism as outlined in article 2 relate to nationalism in article 1? How is this dangerous? How can we see this repeated in today's society? Be prepared to discuss.
Read this excerpt from Mussolini, 1932 (Italy 80 years later) linked here. How does Fascism as outlined in article 2 relate to nationalism in article 1? How is this dangerous? How can we see this repeated in today's society? Be prepared to discuss.
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Watch the video and answer the following:
1. What are 3 ways people feel nationalistic towards their country? 2. How do we determine our own identity? 3. How do we socially construct our identity? 4. What are negatives of nationalism? 5. Do you agree with how a country is calculated? Explain. 6. What is militarism? How is it involved in nationalism? 7. Why is the study about how people reacted to Rocky so important? 8. Answer Fisher's question, "What makes a country? Which identity should matter?" |
Brexit 2021 - Nationalism Its EffectsWhat are unintended consequences? Read the article here and watch the following videos.
Watch the following videos and be prepared to discuss the effects of nationalism and Populism and Brexit on people. |
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Canadian Nationalism |
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History of Canada and Indigenous Peoples
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Canada 150
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Residential Schools In Canada
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Critical Approaches - Review and Reflect:
If any aspect of this course is amenable to the historical approach, it would certainly be this one on indigenous peoples. According to oral history, for example, the Dene people lived and governed in their current territory in what is now the Northwest of Canada since time immemorial, or before historical memory. As settlers moved onto these territories, the Dene found that their intents and voices were increasingly ignored. Indeed, Glen Coulthard argues that, more than anything else, it is control over territory that preoccupies the Canadian state. According to Coulthard, this puts the Canadian state in an historic conflict with indigenous people. This conflict has played out in different ways at different times. Initially, conflict and negotiations between indigenous groups and government led to the reserve system, whereupon many indigenous people were reduced to living on small tracts of land, often in isolated areas, instead of large swaths of territory to which they had been accustomed. The residential schools system was yet another attempt to assimilate indigenous people. Here, indigenous children were reomoved from their communities with the explicit aim of inculcating them with European values that would separate these children from the culture of their parents, grandparents, and other elders in their community. Many indigenous elders today were sent to residential schools as children, where abuses and indignities against indigenous children were rampant. The consequences of the abuses, in turn, reverberate across generations, as many victims struggle to cope while raising their own children, even after the residential schools system had ended. The reserve and residential schools systems have had an enduring impact on all facets of indigenous politics, and th struggle over land continues. More recently, many scholars including Coulthard and Michelle Diagle, see multiculturalism and the politics of recognition as yet another attempt by the Canadian state to dispossess indigenous people from the land by absorbing them into the broader Canadian public.
Reflection Questions
1. What is the relationship between Canada and Indigenous Peoples?
2. How has the territorial aspect of the nation state caused conflict between Canada and Indigenous Peoples?
3. What role has imperialism and colonialism played in the formation of Canada?
4. Do you agree with Coulthard and Diagle?
If any aspect of this course is amenable to the historical approach, it would certainly be this one on indigenous peoples. According to oral history, for example, the Dene people lived and governed in their current territory in what is now the Northwest of Canada since time immemorial, or before historical memory. As settlers moved onto these territories, the Dene found that their intents and voices were increasingly ignored. Indeed, Glen Coulthard argues that, more than anything else, it is control over territory that preoccupies the Canadian state. According to Coulthard, this puts the Canadian state in an historic conflict with indigenous people. This conflict has played out in different ways at different times. Initially, conflict and negotiations between indigenous groups and government led to the reserve system, whereupon many indigenous people were reduced to living on small tracts of land, often in isolated areas, instead of large swaths of territory to which they had been accustomed. The residential schools system was yet another attempt to assimilate indigenous people. Here, indigenous children were reomoved from their communities with the explicit aim of inculcating them with European values that would separate these children from the culture of their parents, grandparents, and other elders in their community. Many indigenous elders today were sent to residential schools as children, where abuses and indignities against indigenous children were rampant. The consequences of the abuses, in turn, reverberate across generations, as many victims struggle to cope while raising their own children, even after the residential schools system had ended. The reserve and residential schools systems have had an enduring impact on all facets of indigenous politics, and th struggle over land continues. More recently, many scholars including Coulthard and Michelle Diagle, see multiculturalism and the politics of recognition as yet another attempt by the Canadian state to dispossess indigenous people from the land by absorbing them into the broader Canadian public.
Reflection Questions
1. What is the relationship between Canada and Indigenous Peoples?
2. How has the territorial aspect of the nation state caused conflict between Canada and Indigenous Peoples?
3. What role has imperialism and colonialism played in the formation of Canada?
4. Do you agree with Coulthard and Diagle?
Contemporary Indigenous Issues
Read each of the 4 Contemporary Issues Facing Indigenous Peoples; these issues deal with various aspects of the nation state as defined earlier (culture, power relationships, boarders/land) then reflect on Canada's relationship with Indigenous Peoples by answering the following question:
What does Canada need to do to atone for their treatment of Indigenous Peoples? What is the pathway forward? How can Canada become a true Nation State?
What does Canada need to do to atone for their treatment of Indigenous Peoples? What is the pathway forward? How can Canada become a true Nation State?
1. Clean Water
2. Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
3. Murdered Residential School Children
4. Trans Mountain Pipeline
2. Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
3. Murdered Residential School Children
4. Trans Mountain Pipeline
A Path ForwardWatch the following video linked here up to 7:30min at least. If you want to watch more that is fine. While watching note down how Indigenous communities structure their governments.
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Discussion Question: Is indigenous identity compatible with multiculturalism? Or is multiculturalism yet another attempt by the Canadian state to dispossess indigenous people from their land by integrating them into broader Canadian society?
Canadian Nationalism and French Canada and the Quebec Question
Quebec Nationalism | |
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Immigration and Diversity
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immigration_and_diversity.pptx | |
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After going through the PowerPoint and watching the video, I would like youth read the short reading below.
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When it comes to studying racism, however, one of the challenges facing researches using political psychology and politial behaviour approaches is the tendency of people to report an attitude toward racial groups that is different from the attitude they actual harbour. There are a number of reasons for this. "Social desirability," for example, encourages participants in pubis opinion surveys to cancel unpopular or offensive ideas for fear of social reproach. Respondents may deny antipathy toward a particular racial group, especially if the person interviewing them is a member of that group. Social desirability effects make it difficult for researchers to elicit genuine opinions about race.
In recent years, psychologists in particular have drawn attention to another critical aspect of racism: its implicitness. Beliefs and attitudes often originate in automatic cognitive processes that are unknown even to the people who harbour them. People may hold negative attitudes about a racial group and yet be unaware that they hold these kinds of attitudes. Racism may originate, for example as a tinge of discomfort in the presence of certain groups, This discomfort may bias a person's assessment in a particular setting, even as the ultimate source of that discomfort remains hidden from the person who experiences it. In other words, people may harbour negative attitudes about racial groups and be genuinely unaware that they hold these attitudes. Psychologist have develop tests for measuring these kinds of implicit racial attitudes. (Cochrane
Learn about and take a test here. Reflect on your results. Do not share.
In recent years, psychologists in particular have drawn attention to another critical aspect of racism: its implicitness. Beliefs and attitudes often originate in automatic cognitive processes that are unknown even to the people who harbour them. People may hold negative attitudes about a racial group and yet be unaware that they hold these kinds of attitudes. Racism may originate, for example as a tinge of discomfort in the presence of certain groups, This discomfort may bias a person's assessment in a particular setting, even as the ultimate source of that discomfort remains hidden from the person who experiences it. In other words, people may harbour negative attitudes about racial groups and be genuinely unaware that they hold these attitudes. Psychologist have develop tests for measuring these kinds of implicit racial attitudes. (Cochrane
Learn about and take a test here. Reflect on your results. Do not share.
Political Correctness
Together we will watch the short mini - doc on Political Correctness from Netflix's Explained. While you watch reflect on:
1. What is political correctness?
2. What are the negative aspects of political correctness?
3. How does political correctness relate to topics like immigration and diversity?
1. What is political correctness?
2. What are the negative aspects of political correctness?
3. How does political correctness relate to topics like immigration and diversity?
Unit 2.3 Contemporary Political Thought
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Chomsky's Anarchy |
Chomsky on Populism |
Chomsky on Neoliberalism |
Chomsky on Socialism |
Take Home Test - 10%
For this test you should review all PowerPoints and videos from the unit.
Take Home Test Review: Complete the Review Questions to best be successful on the test.
Note: Other topics discussed in the unit MAY appear on the Unit Test. Therefore as stated above reviewing all theories an all material from the unit is necessary. The below is a guide to the types of questions and topics that MAY appear on the test.
1. What is the Nation State?
2. What is nationalism? What are its characteristics?
3. How do we socially construct our identity?
4. What are the 4 major issues facing indigenous people's today? Explain them in detail giving examples.
5. Evaluate the relationship between Canada and indigenous people's. Provide detailed examples.
6. What do the following traditional political philosophers believe: Hobbes, Locke, Plato, Aristotle? Give examples of their ideas in today's society.
7. Define and provide examples for the following political ideologies: Anarchy, Pluralism, Agonism and Secularism.
8. What does Foucault think of power. Explain.
9. What is Quebec Nationalism? Explain its history.
10. What is multiculturalism? How can we see it in our society today?
11. What are 2 modern issues that deal with immigration and newcomers to Canada? Explain them.
12. Choose 2 of Chomsky's views and explain them.
13. Explain political correctness and give an example of it in society.
Take Home Test Review: Complete the Review Questions to best be successful on the test.
Note: Other topics discussed in the unit MAY appear on the Unit Test. Therefore as stated above reviewing all theories an all material from the unit is necessary. The below is a guide to the types of questions and topics that MAY appear on the test.
1. What is the Nation State?
2. What is nationalism? What are its characteristics?
3. How do we socially construct our identity?
4. What are the 4 major issues facing indigenous people's today? Explain them in detail giving examples.
5. Evaluate the relationship between Canada and indigenous people's. Provide detailed examples.
6. What do the following traditional political philosophers believe: Hobbes, Locke, Plato, Aristotle? Give examples of their ideas in today's society.
7. Define and provide examples for the following political ideologies: Anarchy, Pluralism, Agonism and Secularism.
8. What does Foucault think of power. Explain.
9. What is Quebec Nationalism? Explain its history.
10. What is multiculturalism? How can we see it in our society today?
11. What are 2 modern issues that deal with immigration and newcomers to Canada? Explain them.
12. Choose 2 of Chomsky's views and explain them.
13. Explain political correctness and give an example of it in society.
Black PantherAs a class we will watch the film Black Panther on Disney +. I would like you to pay specific attention to the government and power structure in the movie. Also, pay attention specifically to the characterization of Chadwick Boseman and his character's rise to prominence. Think of some of the political philosophies we have studied and how they could be applied to the power dynamics and governmental structures in the film. Pay attention to how religion / spirituality influences governmental and social structures.
Ultimately, answer the questions: 1. What type of government from our presentations is Wakanda? Do you think it can work or not? What dangers of this type of government are demonstrated? 2. What is the role of government? Explain. |
Take Home Test - 10%
You will have until Monday to complete the Take Home Test. You will submit it at the beginning of class.
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