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Nativism and Social Closure: A Comparison of Four Social Movements

Department of Sociology, York University, North York, M3J 1P3, Canada

The study of nativism needs more attention than it has been given by sociologists con cerned with religious, ethnic and racial intolerance. Nativism is a nineteenth century form of bigotry. The concept came into use in the United States around 1840 signifying the opposition of America's white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestants (WASPs) to the massive influx of Irish Roman Catholics to the eastern seabord of the United States. For the WASPS. Roman Catholicism was un-American in that its adherents allied themselves with the Pope who was a foreign leader. (Higham, 1975: 106) However, while nativism was more of a nineteenth century phenomenon associated with the United States, a comparative study of nativism between the United States and Canada might help to uncover the similarities and differences in intolerance between the two nations.

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