Faction and Conversion in a Plural Society
Faction and Conversion in a Plural Society

Author: Robert Leroy Canfield

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published: 1973-01-01

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 0932206484

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In this work, anthropologist Robert Leroy Canfield discusses several powerful social systems in central Afghanistan and their impact on the geographical distribution of religious sects in the area. Territorial groups, the kinship network, and community fission all play a part in why people live where they do. Canfield did his fieldwork among the residents of the province of Bamian during the years 1966 to 1968.

Politics in Plural Societies
Politics in Plural Societies

Author: Alvin Rabushka

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780205617616

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This landmark study in the field of comparative politics is being celebrated for its return to print as the newest addition to the "Longman Classics in Political Science" series. Politics in Plural Societies presents a model of political competition in multi-ethnic societies and explains why plural societies, and the struggle for power within them, often erupt with inter-ethnic hostility. Distinguished scholars Alvin Rabushka and Kenneth Shepsle collaborate again in this reissuing of their classic work to demonstrate - in a new epilogue - the persistence of the arguments and evidence first offered in the book. They apply this thesis to the multi-ethnic politics of countries that are of great interest today: Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Yugoslavia, and more.

Sociolinguistics and the Narrative Turn
Sociolinguistics and the Narrative Turn

Author: Rada Tirvassen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-12-10

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 9004380957

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Sociolinguistics and the Narrative Turn presents a fresh approach to sociolinguistics. Located within a qualitative paradigm, it proposes an alternative method for generating knowledge in the field. To start with, there is an argued critique of some of the guiding principles of traditional sociolinguistics which is driven by a trend of scholarship that draws on the meta-narrative of the researcher. In this traditional approach to sociolinguistics, the interpretation of the language phenomenon is not only decontextualised but also stripped of human experience. To illustrate his argument that a qualitative narrative approach to knowledge generation can offer different perspectives and can renew the theorisation of the relationship between language and society, the author has conducted a small-scale study consisting of seven participants.

Plural But Equal
Plural But Equal

Author: Harold Cruse

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13:

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A critical study of Blacks and minorities and America's plural society.

The Languages of Civil Society
The Languages of Civil Society

Author: Peter Wagner

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781845451196

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The series emerged from the study Towards a European Civil Society, on which 40 political scientists, sociologists, historians, and other scholars in 10 countries worked for two and a half years. This first volume looks at the debates about civil society over the past two decades in East Central Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and finally in Europe and globally, as a counter to unjustified state domination and neo-liberal marketization. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).