The concept of cultural pluralism: Issues in special education.
For some decades, American Jews have made sense of the relation between their Americanness and their Jewishness through
the concept of cultural pluralism.
Not exact matches
Much current discussion
of cultural, religious, moral, and intellectual
pluralism uses the
concept «
pluralism» in a way that seems to shift from a descriptive use («such diversity does in fact exist») to an evaluative and even celebratory use («such diversity is a good thing and should exist»).
«But this emergent stability also reflects an implicit social contract among the various scientists and policy specialists involved, which allows «the same»
concept to accommodate tacitly different local meanings» or «The varying importance
of particular dimensions
of knowledge for different social groups may allow cohesion to be sustained amidst
pluralism, and universality to coexist with
cultural distinctiveness».
«But this emergent stability also reflects an implicit social contract among the various scientists and policy specialists involved, which allows «the same»
concept to accommodate tacitly different local meanings» or «The varying importance
of particular dimensions
of knowledge for different social groups may allow cohesion to be sustained amidst
pluralism, and universality to coexist with
cultural distinctiveness».