Format:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 458 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0816608229
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9780816664917
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9780816608225
Content:
Mutual Accomodation was first published in 1977. The author, who was Henry Scarborough Professor of Social Science at Cornell University, assesses the current state of ethnic and racial relations in the United States and, contrary to prevailing pessimism on the part of many other social analysts, finds that intergroup conflict has often resulted in significantly successful outcomes. In his study Professor Williams continually asks how social change occurs and what strategies and tactics are best suited to produce desired outcomes. He shows that purposive change in intergroup relations is feasi
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-447) and index
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Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1 It Can Be Done: Recovery from a National Failure of Nerve; Chapter 2 The Problem: Assessing Ethnic and Racial Relations; Chapter 3 Conflict Resolution and Mutual Accommodation: The Case of the Schools; Chapter 4 The Fluid Mosaic: Ethnicity and Residence in American Communities; Chapter 5 Processes of Change and Stability: Basic Modes of Influence; Chapter 6 Persuasion and Inducement; Chapter 7 The Uses of Constraint: Power, Authority, and Threat Systems in Intergroup Relations; Chapter 8 Strategy and Tactics in Collective Action
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Chapter 9 Composite Strategies in Social Policies and ProgramsChapter 10 Effects of Persuasion, Inducement, and Participation; Chapter 11 Consequences of the Use of Constraint; Chapter 12 An End to Conflict? Terminations, Settlements, and Resolutions; Chapter 13 Realism and Utopia: The Prospects for Social Maturity; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816608225
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mutual Accommodation : Ethnic Conflict and Cooperation
Language:
English
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