Culture and Currents of Thoughts

  • Animism
    1500

    Animism

    A religious belief that includes respect for nature and that everything has a spirit.
  • Shamanism
    1500

    Shamanism

    The shaman was an intermediary between the Aboriginals and the spirits whose goodwill they hoped to attract. A shaman would be called upon to explain the meaning of a dream that one did not understand. Shamans could not impose their will on the group.
  • Absolutism

    Absolutism

    A political ideology by which the ruler receives their powers from God and they are the sole ruler and representative of God on Earth.
  • Catholicism

    Catholicism

    The primary religion in New France, which consisted of the parish (priests, bishops etc).
  • Imperialism

    Imperialism

    An ideology that advocates the political, cultural, economic and/or military domination exerted by the Mother Country on the colony.
  • Liberalism

    Liberalism

    A political ideology based on individuals having equal fundamental rights, including protection from the abuse of the monarch's power.
  • Nationalism

    Nationalism

    A political ideology that identifies a nation as a group of individuals who share common characteristics. Refers to an individuals sense of belonging to a nation.
  • Republicanism

    Republicanism

    An ideology suggesting that people should govern themselves.
  • Anticlericalism

    Anticlericalism

    Opinion that the clergy shouldn't meddle in political life or censor cultural and intellectual life. Anticlericalism is opposed to ultramontism.
  • Ultramontanism

    Ultramontanism

    A political and religious doctrine where the Catholic Church dominates in everyway, including political power.
  • Capitalism

    Capitalism

    Economic system in which private companies run the economy. It benefits the rich and the poor stay poor.
  • Agriculturalism

    Agriculturalism

    View that agricultural life was the solution to counter urbanization.
  • French Canadian Nationalism

    French Canadian Nationalism

    View that encouraged a French Canada. Desire for Canada to be autonomous and separate from Great Britain.
  • Reformism

    Reformism

    Encourages social change that fights poverty and other consequences of industrialization, during the industrialization period.
  • Cooperatism

    Cooperatism

    Counted on by French Canadians to raise the capital necessary for rural development. Allowed for the pooling of savings.
  • Fascism

    Fascism

    Restoration of traditional order by authotarian means.
  • Secularism

    Secularism

    Seperation of church and state.
  • Conservatism

    Conservatism

    Ideology that things should remain the same.
  • Communism

    Communism

    Communism is the extreme form of socialism, socialists wanted the end of the capitalist system and social classes by sharing the means of production.
  • Socialism

    Socialism

    Socialism is meant to be a critique of capitalist industrial development. Socialists were against the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few and they believed in no private ownership.
  • Americanism

    Americanism

    Influence of American ideas and culture on Quebec's societey.
  • Interventionism

    Interventionism

    Ideology encouraging state control of education, health and social services.
  • Feminism

    Feminism

    A social movement in which women fight for suffrage and social/economic/political equality.
  • Aboriginalism

    Aboriginalism

    Aboriginal people assert their concept of a nation.
  • Neoliberalism

    Neoliberalism

    Idea that the government shouldn't intervene in the economy and should let it function on its own.