C 7 MP 2 S The term in the box stands for the following focal concerns of sociologists:

1. Focal Concernsof Sociologists as Study Aids to Seeing the Big Picture for the Soci 309 Mid-Term Test C7MP2S The term in the box stands for the following focal concerns of sociologists: Causes Consequences Conditions Social Classes Conflict/Contradiction Social Control Comparisons Meanings Power Processes Structures Proceed through the following slides for examples of course material pertaining to each respective term. Can you add any other examples? 

2. Causes • Of Alberta’s conservatism (Palmers) • Of the rise of Social Credit (Palmers) • Of the rise of the Tories (Palmers) • Of the Calgary-Edmonton rivalry • Factors Shaping Your Identity (class discuss) • Of one region standing out in certain respects (Lecture on Alberta regions)

3. Consequences / Legacies (Looking at the causal relationship from the other end) • Of rapid social/economic change (Palmers) • Of the outbreak of WW I for prairie settlement (Lecture) • Of the Palliser expedition (1st reading) • Of the Leduc oil discovery • Of a boom and bust economy (esp. on family, as in video) • Of scrip being issued to Metis (Lecture) • Of colonialism (esp. in the form of residential schools & Indian Act) • Of the FN age structure (Lecture) • Of the $310 mil. payment to Metis (Lect.) • Of “the gaze” for Black youths (Kelly)

4. Conditions Normally, this is used in terms of the conditions under which a particular relationship between two variables applies. However, we can use it more broadly here. Examples: What were the conditions of the Great Depression like in Alberta? What are the conditions for alienating Metis settlement land?

5. Social Classes • What social classes constituted the power base of the UFA? Socreds? Lougheed’s Tories? • Housing differences among regions of Alberta • What are the factors contributing to keeping some First Nation individuals in the lower class?

6. Conflict / Contradictions • Federal-provincial energy wars (Lecture) • Labour strife (e.g., CPR; Crowsnest Pass) • Ethnic & Racial Conflict, esp. Nativism (Lect.) • Farmers versus CPR (Lecture) • Aberhart vs eastern financiers (Reading #1)

7. Social Control • “The Gaze” • Anti-Hutterite legislation • Anti-Japanese municipal by-laws • Total institutions & coerced assim. • The Indian Act • Govt’s raid on Metis offices • NWMP and the whiskey trade NOTE: The use of legislation for social control; minorities as frequent objects of social control.

8. COMPARISONS • Regions of Alberta with each other, incl. Calgary with Edmonton • Alberta with Canada (e.g., fertility rates; regions section) • First Nations’ situation with the Metis’ situation (Lecture) • Support base of UFA vs Social Credit vs Tories (Palmers)

9. Meanings(Including Symbols & Interpretations) • Of growing up Black (Kelly) • Of ‘the glare’ as resistance (Kelly) • Of treaties to FN leaders, to the courts, & to government (Lect.) • Symbolism of the NEP (Lect.) • Of being an Albertan (Class discuss) • Western alienation

10. Power • Augmentation of state power under Lougheed’s province-building • Power struggle of “the energy wars” • Power imbalance in total institutions • Imposition of colonial regime on FNs e.g., extensive and arbitrary powers of Min. & Cab. under Indian Act

11. Processes • Immigration & settling of prairies • Subordination/colonization of FNs • Interprovincial migration • “Othering” • Province-building & Nation-building • Boom and bust • Urbanization • Inter-generational transmission of dysfunction

12. Structures • The State and its bureaucracy • Legislation (e.g., NRTA of 1930; the Metis statutes of 1990; Charter of R&F) • Institutional racism (e.g., giraffe & elephant parable in Calliou reading) • Treaties as structures of accommodation • Hinterland-Metropolis structuring of relationships