Emblems of pluralism : cultural differences and the state / Carol Weisbrod.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weisbrod, Carol.

Series:

Cultural lives of law.

The cultural lives of law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism--United States--History.

Cultural pluralism.

Sociological jurisprudence.

State, The.

Politics and culture--United States--History.

Politics and culture.

Culture and law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From outlawing polygamy and mandating public education to protecting the rights of minorities, the framing of group life by the state has been a subject of considerable interest and controversy throughout the history of the United States. The subject continues to be important in many countries. This book deals with state responses to cultural difference through the examination of a number of encounters between individuals, groups, and the state, in the United States and elsewhere. The book opens the concepts of groups and the state, arguing for the complexity of their relations and interpenetrations. Carol Weisbrod draws on richly diverse historical and cultural material to explore various structures that have been seen as appropriate for adjusting relations between states and internal groups. She considers the experience of the Mormons, the Amish, and Native Americans in the United States, the Mennonites in Germany, and the Jews in Russia to illustrate arrangements and accommodations in different times and places. The Minorities Treaties of the League of Nations, political federalism, religious exemptions, nonstate schools, and rules about adoption are among the mechanisms discussed that sustain cultural difference and create frameworks for group life, and, finally, individual life. At bottom, Emblems of Pluralism concerns not only relations between the state and groups, public and private, but also issues of identity and relations between the self and others.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE: Monumental Federalism

PART TWO: The Peaceable Kingdom

Conclusion

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612087714

9781282087712

1282087711

9781400825431

1400825431

OCLC:

362614713