Diversity and Its Discontents : : Cultural Conflict and Common Ground in Contemporary American Society /

Diversity and Its Discontents : : Cultural Conflict and Common Ground in Contemporary American Society / / ed. by Neil J. Smelser, Jeffrey C. Alexander.

Never before has the legitimacy of a dominant American culture been so hotly contested as over the past two decades. Familiar terms such as culture wars, multiculturalism, moral majority, and family values all suggest a society fragmented by the issue of cultural diversity. So does any social solida...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Alexander, Jeffrey C.,
Benhabib, Seyla,
Cohen, Jean L.,
Farley, Reynolds,
Fischer, Claude S.,
Furstenberg Jr., Frank F.,
Higham, John,
Hollinger, David A.,
Seidman, Steven,
Smelser, Neil J.,
Tienda, Marta,
Tyack, David,
Warner, R. Stephen,
Wuthnow, Robert,
Zelizer, Viviana A.,
HerausgeberIn:
Alexander, Jeffrey C.,
Smelser, Neil J.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1999
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: SOURCES OF CULTURAL CONFLICT
  • CHAPTER ONE Introduction: The Ideological Discourse of Cultural Discontent
  • CHAPTER TWO The Culture of Discontent
  • PART TWO: HOW MUCH HAS REALLY CHANGED
  • CHAPTER THREE Cultural Responses to Immigration
  • CHAPTER FOUR Preserving the Republic by Educating Republicans
  • CHAPTER FIVE Racial Issues: Recent Trends in Residential Patterns and Intermarriage
  • CHAPTER SIX Immigration, Opportunity, and Social Cohesion
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Family Change and Family Diversity
  • CHAPTER EIGHT Contesting the Moral Boundaries of Eros
  • PART THREE: SOCIAL CHANGE AND NEW FORMS OF SOCIAL CONNECTION
  • CHAPTER NINE Multiple Markets: Multiple Cultures
  • CHAPTER TEN Uncommon Values, Diversity, and Conflict in City Life
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN Changes in the Civic Role of Religion
  • PART FOUR: RETHINKING DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL SOLIDARITY
  • CHAPTER TWELVE National Culture and Communities of Descent
  • CHAPTER THIRTEEN Does Voluntary Association Make Democracy Work
  • CHAPTER FOURTEEN Civil Society and the Politics of Identity and Difference in a Global Context
  • INDEX

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