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The monochrome society / Amitai Etzioni.
LIBRA HN90.M6 E79 2001
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Van Pelt Library HN90.M6 E79 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Etzioni, Amitai.
- Series:
- New forum books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social values--United States.
- Social values.
- United States.
- Social problems--United States.
- Social problems.
- United States--Moral conditions.
- Moral conditions.
- United States--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 309 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Amitai Etzioni is one of the most influential social and political thinkers of our day, a man synonymous with the ideas of communitarianism. Here, Etzioni challenges those who argue that diversity or multiculturalism is about to become the governing American creed. On the surface, America may seem like a fractured mosaic, but the country is in reality for more socially monochromatic and united than most observers have claimed. Etzioni presents evidence that Americans--whites and African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans, new immigrants and descendants of the Pilgrims--continue to share the same core of basic American values and aspirations. He goes on to show that we need not merely a civil but also a good society, one that nurtures virtues. By turns provocative and reassuring, the chapters here cut to the heart of several of our most pressing social and political issues. The book is further evidence of Etzioni's enduring place in contemporary thought.
- Contents:
- The monochrome society
- Is shaming shameful?
- The post-affluent society
- Can virtual communities be real? / with Oren Etzioni
- Suffer the children
- Holidays : the neglected seedbeds of virtue
- Salem without witches
- Social norms : the Rubicon of social science
- Why the civil society is not good enough
- Virtue and the state : a dialogue between a Communitarian and a social conservative / with Robert P. George
- Restoring the moral voice
- Cross-cultural moral judgments
- Stakeholders versus shareholders.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-297) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691070903
- OCLC:
- 45064703
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