Title The decline of deference : Canadian value change in cross-national perspective / Neil Nevitte

Published Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 369 pages) : illustrations Series Book collections on Project MUSE 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 -- Conclusions -- 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 -- Conclusions -- Chapter 6 A Changing Work Culture The Work Ethic and Pride in WorkWhy do People Work? -- Elaborating Canadian-U.S. Comparisons -- Workplace Participation -- Conclusions -- PART IV: PRIMARY RELATIONS -- Chapter 7 Moral Outlooks -- Shifting Religious Orientations -- Moral Permissiveness -- Tolerance -- Situational Tolerance -- Conclusions -- 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 -- Conclusions -- 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 -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-366) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Public opinion -- Canada Social values -- Cross-cultural studies Social change -- Canada Authority -- Cross-cultural studies POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- Canadian. Social change. Authority. Economic history -- Public opinion. Politics and government -- Public opinion. Public opinion. Social values. Wertwandel SUBJECT Canada -- Politics and government -- Public opinion Canada -- Economic conditions -- 1945- -- Public opinion Canada -- Social conditions -- Public opinion Canada -- Politics and government -- 1945- -- Public opinion Subject Canada. Kanada Genre/Form Electronic books Cross-cultural studies. Form Electronic book LC no. 97122079 ISBN 9781442602519 1442602511

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