ISSN:
0007-1234
Language:
English
Additional Material:
Lit.Hinw.
Titel der Quelle:
British journal of political science
Publ. der Quelle:
Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1971
Angaben zur Quelle:
30(2000), 4, Seite 575-598
Angaben zur Quelle:
volume:30
Angaben zur Quelle:
year:2000
Angaben zur Quelle:
number:4
Angaben zur Quelle:
pages:575-598
DDC:
303
Keywords:
Politische Kultur
;
Gruppe
;
Selbstverständnis
;
Ideologie
;
Einflussgröße
;
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Politisches Bewusstsein
;
Gesellschaftliches Bewusstsein
;
Einwanderung
;
Einwanderer
;
Minderheitenpolitik
;
Soziale Integration
;
Laizismus
;
Frankreich
Abstract:
This article focuses on one of the central controversies in French intellectual debate since the late 1980s: the extent to which traditional republican principles might be reconciled with a recognition of ethnic and cultural diversity, particularly with relation to North African immigrant communities. After locating the debate in its historical and ideological contexts, the article traces the emergence of three types of response: a 'traditionalist' view, which refuses to make any concessions to the claims of multiculturalism and which reaffirms the need to uphold the orthodox republican principles of the secular state; a 'modernizing' republicanism, which endorses some elements of cultural pluralism while maintaining the validity of key republican concepts; and a 'multiculturalist' republicanism, which calls for a pluralist conception of civic identity and a recognition of the positive value of minority cultures. The article concludes with an assessment of the broader questions of political theory raised by this debate. (British Journal of Political Science / FUB)
