Cultural Pluralism and Social Change
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Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Child development
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Child development
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Author : University of California, Los Angeles. African Studies Center
Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Compilation of conference papers, presented at a meeting, on the impact of pluralistic social structures on political and social change in Africa - covers social theories, intergroup relations (incl. Between Europeans Asians, tribal peoples, etc.), leadership, social integration, cultural factors, etc., and includes case studies of social behaviour in African countries prior to and since deconolization. Bibliography pp. 491 to 527. Conference held in los angeles 1966.
Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 13,20 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780472023769
We are witnessing in the last decade of the twentieth century more frequent demands by racial and ethnic groups for recognition of their distinctive histories and traditions as well as opportunities to develop and maintain the institutional infrastructure necessary to preserve them. Where it once seemed that the ideal of American citizenship was found in the promise of integration and in the hope that none of us would be singled out for, let alone judged by, our race or ethnicity, today integration, often taken to mean a denial of identity and history for subordinated racial, gender, sexual or ethnic groups, is often rejected, and new terms of inclusion are sought. The essays in Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics, and the Law ask us to examine carefully the relation of cultural struggle and material transformation and law's role in both. Written by scholars from a variety of disciplines and theoretical inclinations, the essays challenge orthodox understandings of the nature of identity politics and contemporary debates about separatism and assimilation. They ask us to think seriously about the ways law has been, and is, implicated in these debates. The essays address questions such as the challenges posed for notions of legal justice and procedural fairness by cultural pluralism and identity politics, the role played by law in structuring the terms on which recognition, accommodation, and inclusion are accorded to groups in the United States, and how much of accepted notions of law are defined by an ideal of integration and assimilation. The contributors are Elizabeth Clark, Lauren Berlant, Dorothy Roberts, Georg Lipsitz, and Kenneth Karst.
Author : Maurice Craft
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Children of immigrants
ISBN : 9780853590880
In England, multicultural education is one of the most important focal points within the ongoing educational debate. To answer questions of practical policy, multicultural education may be viewed from the perspective of education as social process. More than simply pupils and teachers, classrooms and textbooks, education provides social continuity and engenders social change. A process linked to powerful structural and ideological variables in the wider society, education may vary according to the importance placed upon indivudual development compared with the perceived needs of society. As a result of this dichotomy, all educational systems must strike a balance between educating for variety and educating for conformity, between diversity and cohesion. In a culturally pluralistic society, the tensions between these poles are particularly great: a plural society is, by definition, more diverse and thus has a greater need for conformity, yet it also has a greater natural resistance to conformity. British educationalists are now faced with deciding at what point the acculturation necessary for full participation in society becomes a repressive assimilation, and at what point the celebration of diversity ceases to enrich and becomes potentially divisive. Diversity and conformity are in fact interdependent, and majority children can benefit as much as minority children from multicultural education. (KH)
Author : Renée Adele Davis
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Education
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Author : Jill Norgren
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN :
This new and updated edition of Norgren and Nanda's classic text brings their examination of American cultural pluralism and the law up to date through the Clinton administration. While maintaining their emphasis on the concept of cultural diversity as it relates to the law in the United States, new and updated chapters reflect recent relevant court cases bearing on culture, race, gender, and class, with particular attention paid to local and state court opinions. Drawing on court materials, statutes and codes, and legal ethnographies, the text analyzes the ongoing negotiations and accommodations via the mechanism of law between culturally different groups and the larger society. An important text for courses in American government, society and the law, cultural studies, and civil rights.
Author : Crawford Young
Publisher : Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
This is a study of the fundamental causes of the diverse political tensions and situations in the Third World.
Author : Thomas J. La Belle
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 12,48 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791419397
This book introduces multiculturalism and its relationship to education and schooling, while also highlighting current approaches to multicultural education and placing them in a broad comparative and international context. Through a comparative view that is both domestic and international, the book explores ethnicity, race, class, and education (kindergarten through higher education) as they interact to integrate populations, while also serving vested interests and enhancing group identity and status. The authors position multiculturalism as a political and social phenomena that affects and interacts with education and its institutions. To do this, they draw upon international cases as well as the history of segmentation and integration in the United States.
Author : Narendra Subramanian
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 27,77 MB
Release : 2014-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804790906
The distinct personal laws that govern the major religious groups are a major aspect of Indian multiculturalism and secularism, and support specific gendered rights in family life. Nation and Family is the most comprehensive study to date of the public discourses, processes of social mobilization, legislation and case law that formed India's three major personal law systems, which govern Hindus, Muslims, and Christians. It for the first time systematically compares Indian experiences to those in a wide range of other countries that inherited personal laws specific to religious group, sect, or ethnic group. The book shows why India's postcolonial policy-makers changed the personal laws they inherited less than the rulers of Turkey and Tunisia, but far more than those of Algeria, Syria and Lebanon, and increased women's rights for the most part, contrary to the trend in Pakistan, Iran, Sudan and Nigeria since the 1970s. Subramanian demonstrates that discourses of community and features of state-society relations shape the course of personal law. Ruling elites' discourses about the nation, its cultural groups and its traditions interact with the state-society relations that regimes inherit and the projects of regimes to change their relations with society. These interactions influence the pattern of multiculturalism, the place of religion in public policy and public life, and the forms of regulation of family life. The book shows how the greater engagement of political elites with initiatives among the Hindu majority and the predominant place they gave Hindu motifs in discourses about the nation shaped Indian multiculturalism and secularism, contrary to current understandings. In exploring the significant role of communitarian discourses in shaping state-society relations and public policy, it takes "state-in-society" approaches to comparative politics, political sociology, and legal studies in new directions.
Author : Horace Meyer Kallen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1512817201
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.