Open AccessUnderstanding Student Protest in Canada: The University of Toronto Strike Vote
Author(s) -
John H. Simpson,
Walter Phillips
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
canadian journal of higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2293-6602
pISSN - 0316-1218
DOI - 10.47678/cjhe.v6i1.182652
Subject(s) - referendum , argument (complex analysis) , voting , variation (astronomy) , variety (cybernetics) , order (exchange) , political science , sociology , demographic economics , social psychology , psychology , law , economics , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , finance , artificial intelligence , politics , astrophysics , computer science
A behavioural indicator of student protest - voting in favour of a student strike referendum - is shown to be positively associated with two social discontinuities accompanying the student role: the weakening of ties with the family of origin and an uncertain future. Also, a student's commitment to the social order as measured by a variety of items is shown to be inversely related to favouring the strike. An argument is made that recent student protest in Canada and the United States differed in terms of the major issues involved and that the difference can be explained by variation in the valued means of social participation in the two societies.