Towards a New Sociolinguistics

2019 ◽  
pp. 86-108
Author(s):  
J.P.S. Uberoi ◽  
Patricia Uberoi
Keyword(s):  
Language Planning ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Joint Paper ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Untimely Death

This is a joint paper with Professor Patricia Uberoi that was originally written as a tribute to Prabodh B. Pandit following his untimely death. It discusses the idea of India as a sociolinguistic area, the alternative Western methods that have been applied to its study, that is, melting pot or apartheid. A major theme is the question of bilingualism, multilingualism and dialects within the Indian experiment of functional multilingualism or unity in variety. Included here are subjects such as standard and dialectical forms in language, the implications of this for language planning in India, and the structure of cultural pluralism. It ends with the outline of a new theoretical framework for Indian sociolinguistics.

scholarly journals Cultural Diversity and Religious Reflexivity in an Intercultural Chilean Parish

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Felipe Orellana
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Religious Conviction ◽  
Peter Berger ◽  
Personal Belief ◽  
The Difference

This research aims to analyze cultural diversity and its relationship with the personal belief in an Immigrant Parish. The discussion is framed within the topic of intercultural churches and parishes, although in a setting that has not been researched (Santiago, Chile). The research was carried out in the Latin-American Parish placed in Providencia, Santiago, and a qualitative framework was used to obtain and analyze the data. Cultural diversity is understood concerning religious reflexivity and under the idea that pluralism leads to a weakening of religious conviction, as Peter Berger argued. The theoretical framework makes the difference between the vision of Berger on cultural pluralism (pluralism inter-religion) and the viewpoint by Charles Taylor (pluralism intra-religion). On the contrary to Berger, the findings of this research showed that cultural diversity and pluralism are elements that produce a strengthening of individual beliefs.

scholarly journals Book Review: American Political Culture: An Encyclopedia

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
Carla Wilson Buss
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Reliable Information ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
American Political Culture ◽  
Israel Zangwill

Anyone seeking reliable information on American political life since the 1970s will be pleased with Michael Shally-Jensen’s work, American Political Culture. This three-volume set covers topics from abortion to Israel Zangwill, the nineteenth-century author who coined the phrase “melting pot” and who appears in the entry for “Cultural Pluralism.”

Eccezionalismo, identitŕ nazionale e interdipendenza : nuove sintesi italiane sulla storia degli Stati Uniti d'America

2009 ◽  
pp. 177-190
Author(s):  
Daniele Fiorentino
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Key Words ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
Manifest Destiny ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
American Imperialism ◽  
Dominant Society

- The essay examines some central concepts of U.S. history and culture through the analysis of three volumes published in Italy in 2008. The author uses the concept of American Exceptionalism in order to provide a closer reading of the books and a better understanding of the image of the United States offered today, as well as the place of U.S. history in Italy. Cultural Pluralism is an important framework in the historical and historiographical narratives. Touching upon other central ideals of American identity such as Manifest Destiny, the Frontier, and Internationalism, this essay deals with the issue of Imperialism and the reactions against it in the 19th and 20th centuries. Through the question of immigration, reference is made to multiculturalism and the processes that led toward a progressive integration of different minorities on the basis of models proposed by the dominant society. The essay thus recapitulates some of the most widespread stereotypes concerning ethnic groups and the construction of a new model of Cultural Pluralism.Key words: U.S. history, exceptionalism, American imperialism, immigration, cultural pluralism, Melting PotParole chiave: storia degli Stati Uniti, eccezionalismo, imperialismo americano, immigrazione, pluralismo culturale, melting pot

scholarly journals Religion and political form: Carl Schmitt's genealogy of politics as critique of Jürgen Habermas's post-secular discourse

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 975-994 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANTONIO CERELLA
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Political Form ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Western Democracies

AbstractJürgen Habermas's post-secular account is rapidly attracting attention in many fields as a theoretical framework through which to reconsider the role of religion in contemporary societies. This work seeks to go beyond Habermas's conceptualisation by placing the post-secular discourse within a broader genealogy of the relationships between space, religion, and politics. Drawing on the work of Carl Schmitt, the aim of this article is to contrast the artificial separation between private and public, religious and secular, state and church, and the logic of inclusion/exclusion on which modernity was established. Revisiting this genealogy is also crucial to illustrating, in light of Schmitt's political theory, the problems underlying Habermas's proposal, emphasising its hidden homogenising and universalist logic in an attempt to offer an alternative reflection on the contribution of religious and cultural pluralism within Western democracies.

scholarly journals Befriending Job: Theodicy Amid the Ashes

Open Theology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 319-326
Author(s):  
Mark Stephen Murray Scott
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Theological Interpretation ◽  
Untimely Death ◽  
The Face

AbstractWhat role should theodicy play in the face of loss and acute suffering? Should it keep its distance and remain respectfully silent or should it step forward to illuminate the opaque reality of evil, especially untimely death? In my article, I explore the fraught relationship between the personal experience of loss and its theological interpretation through an analysis of three related bereavement autobiographies: C. S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed, Nicholas Wolterstorff’s Lament for a Son, and William Abraham’s Among the Ashes. Invoking Job’s “friends” as a theoretical framework, I analyze each author’s attempt to reconcile the lived experience of suffering with the theoretical task of theodicy: to explain suffering. I conclude with my own constructive proposal on the place of theodicy in the realm of human anguish.

Ethnicity in Contemporary America

1981 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-339
Author(s):  
James H. Dormon
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
American Society ◽  
Age Of Aquarius

It is just under a decade since the historian Theodore Hershberg, a close student of American minority groups and a founder of the then new Journal of Ethnic Studies, announced the demise of the “Age of Aquarius,” pronouncing at the same time its displacement by the “Age of Ethnicity.” In so proclaiming he also, figuratively at least, announced the passing of one of the oldest of American ideals: the notion of the “Melting Pot,” that social process by which the ethnic elements of American society would all be boiled down into a national cultural amalgam by way of their “Americanization.” In announcing the advent of the Age of Ethnicity, Hershberg gave tacit recognition to the fact that the melting pot model of ethnic group accommodation to American culture had now been pre-empted, officially and normatively, by the notion of “cultural pluralism.” There was no further need for amalgamation at all: each group was now to proceed to celebrate its origins, its distinct culture, and its fellowship in any way it pleased, as one of its fundamental American “rights.”On reflection, it may seem that in some respects the timing of the Hershberg prophesy is odd, even perverse. Many specialists were even then about the business of eliminating ethnicity altogether as a major factor in American culture, pronouncing the vestigial ethnic elements in US society virtually “assimilated.”

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