UID:
almahu_9949712703202882
Format:
1 online resource (279 p.)
ISBN:
9786612555923
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9781282555921
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1282555928
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9780472022069
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0472022067
Series Statement:
Contemporary political and social issues
Content:
Research showing America's politics may be more based on personal choice than party or cultural divisions.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- Contents -- 1. Culture Wars and Warring about Culture -- The Culture Wars -- Warring over Culture -- The Culture Warriors -- American Culture -- 2. Respect for Religion but Uncertainty about Its Role -- The Public Sphere and Civil Religion -- Dilemmas of Church-State Relations -- Religious Belief and Secularization -- Conclusions -- 3. Moral but Not Moralistic -- Through the Lenses of Morality -- Abortion and Homosexuality -- Moral Decline and Relativism -- Moralizing and Legislating Morality -- Conclusions -- 4. Individualism but Not to Excess -- Celebrating Individualism and Community -- American Individualism: Complexities and Controversies -- Critiquing Multiculturalism -- Multiculturalism in Relationship to the Individual, the Group, and the Society -- 5. Pluralism within One Culture -- Historical Perspectives -- Contemporary Images of Pluralism -- Multicultural Education and the Canon Wars -- The Difficulties of Tolerance -- Conclusions -- 6. Antielitist but Respecting Achievement -- Who Are the Elites, and What Is Elite Culture? -- Elitism and Funding for the Arts -- Ambivalence toward Elites -- Elitism in the Feminist and Gay Rights Movements -- Conclusions -- 7. Moderation, Plain and Simple -- 8. Culture, Class, and American Exceptionalism -- Cultural Politics -- American Exceptionalism? -- The Continuing Significance of Class, Race, and Gender -- A Polarized Population? -- Sarah Palin and a Renascent Culture War? -- A Multitude of Internal Divisions -- Conclusions -- 9. Concluding Comments -- Methodological Appendix -- References -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780472050888
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0472050885
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3998/mpub.1571326
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