Focal Concerns of Sociologists as Study Aids to Seeing the Big Picture for the Soci 309 MidTerm Test

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Title: Focal Concerns of Sociologists as Study Aids to Seeing the Big Picture for the Soci 309 MidTerm Test

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 Albertas 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 (Assign 1)
Of one region standing out in certain respects
(Lecture on Alberta regions)
Of FN family dysfunction poverty (Lect)
Of Albertas high divorce rate (class discussn)
Of FN community political dysfunction
(Crowfoot)
Of generalized distrust on-reserve
(Crowfoot)

3
Consequences / Legacies (Looking at the causal
relationship from the other end)

Of rapid social/economic change (Palmers)
Of the outbreak of WW II 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 nepotism (Crowfoot)
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 (criteria) for declaring
an adult interdependent relationship to be
dissolved?
What are the conditions for alienating Metis
settlement land?
Does conjugal happiness exist at equally high
levels for married and common-law couples?

5
Social Classes

What social classes constituted the power base of
the UFA? Socreds? Lougheeds Tories?
Housing, education, and income differences among
regions of Alberta
What are the factors contributing to keeping some
First Nation individuals in the lower class?

6
Conflict / Contradictions

Rhetoric vs reality in child welfare (Lect.)
Govts violation of fundamental values
e.g., fairness, equality, security, respect
for human dignity
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)
Prov. govt. bureaucrats undermining Getty on
Lubicon deal (Lecture)
Divorce and family discord (Lecture)
The paradox of FN attempts to preserve
Indian-ness (Crowfoot,
p. 323)
Contradictions built into the role of FN chief

(Crowfoot, p. 309)
Contradictions in community members expectations
of FN chief (Crowfoot, p. 307-8)

7
Social Control

The Gaze
Anti-Hutterite legislation
Anti-Japanese municipal by-laws
Total institutions coerced assim.
The Indian Act
Govts raid on Metis offices
Divide and conquer tactics used by federal govt
against Lubicons
Cross-burnings
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)
Alberta with other provinces
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 (Assignmt 1)
Western alienation
Happiness in families (conjugal and children)

10
Power

Augmentation of state power under Lougheeds
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
Alberta govts abuse of power re Lubicons,
prohibition on land caveats, and raids of Metis
offices

11
Processes