The Decline of Deference : Canadian Value Change in Cross National Perspective / Neil Nevitte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nevitte, Neil, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--Canada.

Political culture.

Social values--Canada--Cross-cultural studies.

Social values.

Public opinion--Canada.

Public opinion.

Canada--Politics and government--1980-.

Canada.

Canada--Social conditions--1945-.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the 1980's Canadians have experienced turmoil on an unprecedented scale and on a variety of fronts. Constitutional battles pitted citizen against citizen and publics against leaders. Vigorous new interest groups challenged governments to respond to new issues like the environment, gay rights, and equality for women. In the face of expanding trade relations Canadians mobilized to respond to economic uncertainty, and family relations were exposed to new stresses. What explains the turmoil? In this extraordinarily wide-ranging book, Neil Nevitte demonstrates that the changing patterns of Canadian values are connected. Changing attitudes to authority in the family are connected to changing attitudes to the work-place and to politics and they all point to one theme--the decline of deference. Canada's turmoil is not unique, nor is it a result of the "Americanization" of Canadian values. Canada, he argues is but one stage on which the rhythms of post-industrial value change are played out.

Contents:

Table of Contents

Preface

PART I: SETTING THE STAGE

Chapter 1 A Decade of Turmoil

Interpreting Turmoil

Canada as One Stage

Three Perspectives on Canadian Value Change

Chapter 2 Setting the Stage

Structural Shifts in Context

From Structural Change to Value Change

Public Priorities and Orientations Towards Authority

Conclusions

PART II: POLITICAL VALUE CHANGE

Chapter 3 A Changing Political Culture?

Interest in Politics

Confidence in Governmental Institutions

Confidence in Non-Governmental Institutions

The Rise of CosmopolitanismConclusions

Chapter 4 Changing Patterns of Political Participation

The Rise of Protest Behaviour

New Movements

The Case of Environmentalism

Civil Permissiveness

Orientations towards Change

Challenging Political Authority

PART III: ECONOMIC VALUE CHANGE

Chapter 5 Changing Economic Cultures

Support for the Free Market

Why do People Live in Need?

When Jobs are Scarce

Free Markets and Free Trade: The Case of NAFTA

Chapter 6 A Changing Work Culture

The Work Ethic and Pride in WorkWhy do People Work?

Elaborating Canadian-U.S. Comparisons

Workplace Participation

PART IV: PRIMARY RELATIONS

Chapter 7 Moral Outlooks

Shifting Religious Orientations

Moral Permissiveness

Tolerance

Situational Tolerance

Chapter 8 Family Values: Stability and Change

The Family and Marriage

Women and Men, Family and Work

Parents and Children

Connecting Authority Orientations: The Family, Work and the Polity

PART V: CONCLUSIONS

Chapter 9 Patterns of ChangeCanada as an Advanced Industrial State: Perspective 1

Canada as a North American State: Perspective 2

Canada as an Immigrant Society: Perspective 3

Revisiting Authority Orientations

Authority Orientations and the Status Quo

Appendix: World Values Survey

Index

A

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Y

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references: p. [353]-366.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9781442602519

1442602511

OCLC:

191818965