The Limits Of Social Cohesion: Conflict And Mediation In Pluralist Societies

by Peter L. Berger

Overview

This report is the result of years of cooperation between the Club of Rome and the Bertelsmann Science Foundation. It gives a better understanding of the limits to social cohesion and the increasing role of intermediate institutions or of individual leaders in the mediation of normative conflicts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367318666
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/13/2019
Pages:	420
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peter L. Berger is director of the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture at Boston University.

Table of Contents

Preface — Preface — Introduction — The American Culture War — The Past in the Present: Redefining Laicite in Multicultural France — Normative Conflicts in Germany: Basic Consensus, Changing Values, and Social Movements — Uncertain Ghosts: Populists and Urbans in Postcommunist Hungary — Revolution from the Top and Horizontal Mediation: The Case of Chile's Transition to Democracy — South Africa: Normative Conflicts, Social Cohesion, and Mediating Institutions — Some Notes on Normative Conflicts in Turkey — Islamic Tolerance: The Struggle for a Pluralist Ethics in Contemporary Indonesia — The Conflict of Norms and Values in Contemporary Indian Society — Normative Conflicts in Japan — Normative Conflicts in Contemporary Taiwan — Conclusion: General Observations on Normative Conflicts and Mediation — Executive Summaries

Editorial Reviews

All the pieces leave one not only better informed, but with some larger inkling to brood on.

Times Literary Supplement