2. 1 Focal Concerns of Sociologists as Study Aids to Seeing the Big Picture for the Soci 309 Mid-Term Test C 7 MP 2 S 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? 

3. 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)

4. 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 (1 st 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)

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. 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)

8. 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.

9. 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)

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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