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Inconsequential Agency: Elucidating the Relationship Between Freedom and Agency

The continued salience of inequality along racial and gendered lines has resulted in great attention to the question of social justice by normative political theorists. This question has been of More

Posted On : April 2, 2019 Published By : Jeanne Mayrand-Thibert
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Framing Matters: Multiculturalism, Liberal Justice, and Reasonable Accommodation

Much ink has been spilled over the topic of Canadian multiculturalism. As Lori Beaman (2015) writes, while multiculturalism is undeniably a demographic reality in Canada, a lot of ambiguity remains More

Posted On : March 18, 2019 Published By : Jeanne Mayrand-Thibert
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Social Arrangements and Moral Responsibility: The Example of the Canadian Settler-State

The gravest social injustices that plague our societies cannot be explained by the actions of individual agents. Wage gaps across genders and ethnic lines are not explained by personal deficiencies More

Posted On : February 25, 2019 Published By : Jeanne Mayrand-Thibert
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Op-Ed: Whiteness Theory and Legault’s Denial of Islamophobia in Quebec

Feminist scholar Peggy McIntosh was the first to coin the term “white privilege”. Throughout her years in the field of women’s studies, she noticed that while men were often willing More

Posted On : February 11, 2019 Published By : Jeanne Mayrand-Thibert
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Op-Ed: 8158 Lies, Foucault in the Age of Trump

Max Weber’s theory of power was foundational in the study of power in political sociology. Indeed, he was amongst the first to introduce a social dimension to power. He defined More

Posted On : January 30, 2019 Published By : Jeanne Mayrand-Thibert
Kiss my tax
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Measuring Power: The 2018 Republican Tax Cut and False Consciousness

A basic tenant of the scientific method is the criteria of falsifiability. Developed by the theorist Karl Popper, falsifiability refers to the quality of a theory that can be proven More

Posted On : January 14, 2019 Published By : Jeanne Mayrand-Thibert
Religion and Politics
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Religion is Society that Worships Itself: Durkheim and Political Secularism

Emile Durkheim, one of the fathers of modern sociology, was interested in understanding the social significance of religion. Durkheim constructed a story of the emergence of religion. He identified collective More

Posted On : November 29, 2018 Published By : Jeanne Mayrand-Thibert
Protest against religious neutrality
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Religious Neutrality: Would Hobbes defend Legault?

Imagine an interview, where an intellectual tells a journalist that he opposes all types of civic, political and religious freedoms because he sees them as threatening to the stability of More

Posted On : November 13, 2018 Published By : Jeanne Mayrand-Thibert
Protest against Trump
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Tocqueville in the Age of Trump: Can Social Trust Be Restored?

Tocqueville was concerned with the question of the preservation of political liberty under equal social conditions. He witnessed great political instability in France after the revolution of 1789 and saw More

Posted On : October 30, 2018 Published By : Jeanne Mayrand-Thibert
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The Social Harms of Capitalism: Beyond the Meaningless Pursuit of Commodities

Adam Smith is one of the founding figures of capitalism. As such, it is often falsely derived that he was a staunch defender of the free market and small government. More

Posted On : October 16, 2018 Published By : Jeanne Mayrand-Thibert

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