Abstract
The present paper concerns changes in Quebec nationalism before 1960, as a prelude to Quebec's so called “Quiet Revolution”. We deal with this question as a part of an effort to construct a more general theory of nationalism. In this view we first examine the concept of ideology from the view point of control in order to set it in the frame of the systems theory. Nationalism is characterized as one type of ideology.
In the second part of this paper, we characterize the 1950's in Quebec as a period of the coming of the traditional nationalism in question. Its inability to handle the problems caused by industrialization is the main reason for criticism. There are two currents which raise questions about the traditional nationalism : one is a negation of nationalism itself, the other is a renovation of nationalism. But politically, these two currents have a common enemy ; that is, Duplessis government, in which they find an incarnation of traditional nationalism.
