Social 30-1
“Understanding Individualism and
Collectivism”
Mr. Tulk
Words
• Rule of Law
• Private Property
• Economic Freedom
Review
 What did Locke, Hobbes, and JJ think?
 What is Liberalism? What stages led to
Liberalism?
 Come on…
 Why was the Printing Press so Important?
 Why was Leonardo Di Vinci so Important?
Housekeeping
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Quiz Tomorrow.
Hobbs and Locke question due NOW.
Your Test will be after the break.
That’s it.
Principles of Individualism
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Rule or Law.
Individual Rights and Freedoms.
Private Property.
Economic Freedom.
Self-Interest.
Competition.
Rule of Law
• The Rule of law is that the law itself, and not the
individual, has the greatest power and that all
individuals are subject to the law.
• This idea comes for the Magna Carta. (Great
Charter)
The Magna Carta
• an English legal charter, originally issued in the
year 1215.
• Protects the rights of the people
• Limits the power of the King of England.
• led to the rule of constitutional law
Continued
• King John was forced to limit the amount of
taxes he could collect.
• The King became subject to law.
• Over the years, the monarchy has given up more
and more power.
• This document forged the way for modern
democracy.
Individual Rights and Freedoms
• In a liberal democracy and individualistic
societies we all have rights.
• These include such rights as Freedom of
Religion, Freedom of Association, and the right
to life liberty and security of person.
• But, these rights have limits…
• Can we think of times when our rights could be
limited.
Freedom
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Speech
• One
shout “fire” in a crowded
room.
• may follow the "harm principle" or the
"offense principle”
▫ You are not allowed to do something thing
in action or expression that is designed to
hurt, harm, or cause injury to another
person.
• to prevent harm to others
Hate Speech
• speech that attacks or disparages a person or
group of people based on their:
• race, gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion,
or lack there of, sexual orientation, gender
identity, disability, language ability, ideology,
social class, occupation, appearance (height,
weight, skin color, etc.), mental capacity, and
any other distinction that might be considered
by some as a liability.
Defamation
• It is a crime to tell laws or untruths about a
person intentionally.
• One BC woman was charges $675 000.00 for
creating a website that defamed a teacher.
Private Property
• Ideas of property first developed in the
Enlightenment.
• Intially, it only applied to Land (Real Estate).
• It is the idea that we can own things, stuff.
• Now, some groups argue that property is never
owned.
• This causes some strange debates about what
can be private property.
Economic Freedom
• Our freedom to buy what we want and sell our
labor to who we want are our economic
freedoms.
• Employers also have the freedom to choose who
they employee?
Now, we do not really have complete
economic freedom.
• We still have laws and regulations.
• Businesses in Canada still need to pay minimum
wages, overtime, etc…
• We have a social safety net. (known as the
Welfare State, but that will come later)
Self Interest and Competition
• Individualism and its related economic system
(Capitalism) is based on the idea that people
work for self-Interest.
• Ideas developed by Adam Smith (Chapter 3).
• The ideas of Supply and demand allow for better
goods and service at better prices for the
consumer.
• Let’s look at this from a Fort McMurray
Persepctive.
Finished.
• Questions for tomorrow (kind of).
▫ Think themes of Ideology.
▫ Think structure of Individualism.
▫ Think Importance of Renaissance.