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The Limits Of Social Cohesion - Conflict And Mediation In Pluralist Societies (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Limits Of Social Cohesion - Conflict And Mediation In Pluralist Societies (Paperback, New Ed)
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Normative conflicts center on fundamental disagreements over issues
of public morality and the identity of a society. In thinking about
normative conflicts on a global scale, two principal questions
arise. First, are there common characteristics of such conflicts
worldwide? Second, which institutions polarize such conflicts and
which can serve to mediate them? This pathbreaking book, edited by
renowned sociologist Peter Berger, examines both questions through
findings gained from a study of normative conflicts in eleven
societies located in different parts of the world and at different
levels of economic development. On both points, the findings have
proved surprising. Although there are, of course, normative
conflicts peculiar to individual societies, two features emerged as
common to most of the societies examined: one concerns disputes
over the place of religion in the state and in public life; the
other is a clash of values between a cultural elite and the broad
masses of the population. Often the two features coincide. For
instance, in many countries the elite is the least religious group
within the population, and therefore, resentments against the elite
are often mobilized under religious banners. On the institutional
question, the study started out with a bias toward the institutions
of so-called "civil society"-that is, the institutions that stand
between the personal life of individuals and the vast
mega-structures of a modern society. The finding is that the same
institutions can either polarize or mediate normative conflicts.
The conclusion suggests one must ask not just what sort of
institutions one looks to for social cohesion, but what ideas and
values inspire these institutions. Comprising reports from some of
the leading scholars dealing with normative conflict, this book is
an important contribution to understanding the cultural fault lines
that threaten social cohesion.
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