plur
- Created by: Rachel
- Created on: 07-06-13 13:25
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- Pluralist multiculturalism
- arises from liberal tradition but has developed beyond it
- PLURALISM
- Society: made up of a number of distinct groups
- Groups can be of any nature
- ETHNIC
- RELIGIOUS
- LINGUISTIC
- AGE
- All have SAME WORTH so deserve same access to
- POLITICAL POWER
- ECONOMIC PROSPERITY
- EDUCATION
- as everyone else
- ECONOMIC PROSPERITY
- POLITICAL POWER
- as everyone else
- Groups can be of any nature
- No single route to an ideal life/form of society
- criticized as being 'moral relativism'
- aka (absence of any absolute standards by which to judge behavior)
- leads to any act being seen as legitimate, even if it violates the views of the overwhelming majority of the rest of society
- implies liberal values of Western society - no longer have universal application
- Thus liberal values will have to exists as just another value system competing against other authoritarian ideologies
- criticized as being 'moral relativism'
- Society: made up of a number of distinct groups
- PLURALISM
- Human societies are far too complex to have one unique set of universal values
- argued by Professor Parekh
- similar to Burkes image of society being made up of distinct 'small platoons'
- groups with their own history, rights & identity
- similar to Burkes image of society being made up of distinct 'small platoons'
- argued by Professor Parekh
- In South America liberal values (incld. property rights) have been criticsed as INSTRUMENTS used to MAINTAIN the rule of narrow, autocratic eleites
- these are the agents of American and European business interests which have entered an alliance to oppress the majority of the people
- Liberation for the opressed means the overthrown of these universal values which have been hypocritically used to legitimize centuries of repression & dictatorship
- EG: Bosnian Rev in Venezula
- They claim inspiration from and legitimacy for traditions that predate liberalism
- This is a campaign for pluralist multiculturalism on a continental scale
- They claim inspiration from and legitimacy for traditions that predate liberalism
- EG: Bosnian Rev in Venezula
- Liberation for the opressed means the overthrown of these universal values which have been hypocritically used to legitimize centuries of repression & dictatorship
- these are the agents of American and European business interests which have entered an alliance to oppress the majority of the people
- Can identify 'particularlist' multicultalism
- diversity involves UNEQUAL power
- This inequality must be addressed
- Leads to supporting 'affirmative action'
- This inequality must be addressed
- A way to formulate a theory of minority rights on a general & global scale
- diversity involves UNEQUAL power
- arises from liberal tradition but has developed beyond it
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