The "Québécois" Separatist Movement and Ascribed Statuses: Features and Consequences

• Autores: José Havet, Louise Dignard
• Localización: CIENCIA ergo-sum, ISSN 1405-0269, Vol. 4, Nº. 1, 1997, págs. 21-27
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In the "Québécois"separatist movement and organizations, the dominant pattern variables in the legitimation of demands refer above all to ascribed statuses, namely language and ethnic affiliation. These statuses are the very ones that figure (d) most prominently in (past) discriminaton practices suffered by the "Québécois". The paper shows that such ideological frames of nference are conducivee to retreats from economic preoccupations and from broader forms of social solidaruty. The paper concludes with the need for sociald scientists to reveal the antidemocratic aspects conveyed by such dominant pattern variables in the legimitation of demands of the "Québécois" —and similar— movements.