ISBN:
1417525584
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0520936914
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9780520936911
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9781417525584
Language:
English
Pages:
vii, 295 pages
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24 cm
Edition:
Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
Series Statement:
EBSCOhost eBook Collection
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Fractious nation?
Keywords:
USA
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National characteristics, American.
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Political culture
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Citizenship Social aspects
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Social conflict
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Pluralism (Social sciences)
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Social conflict United States
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Cultural pluralism United States
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National characteristics, American
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Political culture
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Citizenship Social aspects
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Political culture United States
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Citizenship Social aspects
;
United States
;
Cultural pluralism
;
Social conflict
;
National characteristics, American.
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Political culture
;
Citizenship Social aspects
;
Social conflict
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Pluralism (Social sciences)
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Electronic books
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Political culture
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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Social conflict
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Regions & Countries - Americas
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History & Archaeology
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United States - General
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HISTORY
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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Citizenship ; Social aspects
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Cultural pluralism
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National characteristics, American
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Moral conditions
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Nationalbewusstsein
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Politische Kultur
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United States Social conditions 1980-
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United States Politics and government 1989-
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United States Social conditions 1980-
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United States Politics and government
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1989-
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United States Moral conditions
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United States Social conditions
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1980-
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United States
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United States Moral conditions
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United States Moral conditions.
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United States Politics and government 1989-
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United States Moral conditions.
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United States
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books
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USA Government
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Politische Kultur
;
Nationalbewusstsein
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USA Government
;
Politische Kultur
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Nationalbewusstsein
Abstract:
Getting a fix on fragmentation: "breakdown" as estimation error, rhetorical strategy, and organizational accomplishment / Jonathan Rieder -- The fetish of difference / Richard Berstein -- Fragments or ties? the defense of difference / Martha Minow -- The myth of culture war: the disparity between private opinion and public politics / Paul DiMaggio -- America's Jews: highly fragmented, insufficiently disputatious / Jack Wertheimer -- Once again, strangers on our shores / Mary C. Waters -- Expelling newcomers: the eclipse of constitutional community / Cecilia Muñoz -- The United States in the world community: the limits of national sovereignty / Douglas S. Massey -- "Who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd?": narrowing the enduring divisions of race / Jennifer Hochschild -- The ambivalence of citizenship: African-American intellectuals in search of community / Kevin Gaines -- Social provision and civic community: beyond fragmentation / Theda Skocpol -- Stable fragmentation in multicultural America / Paul Starr -- The moral compassion of true conservatism / John J. DiIulio Jr. -- Shaking off the past: third ways, fourth ways, and the urgency of politics / E.J. Dionne Jr. -- Epilogue: Into the unknown: unity and conflict after September 11, 2001 / Jonathan Rieder
Abstract:
What are we to make of the speed with which the new climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look strange against a backdrop of the much-touted divisiveness of American life? In truth, The Fractious Nation? makes clear, the contrast of the time of divisiveness before and the time of unity that followed is much too stark, indeed; Since 1980
Description / Table of Contents:
Getting a fix on fragmentation: "breakdown" as estimation error, rhetorical strategy, and organizational accomplishment / Jonathan Rieder -- The fetish of difference / Richard Berstein -- Fragments or ties? the defense of difference / Martha Minow -- The myth of culture war: the disparity between private opinion and public politics / Paul DiMaggio -- America's Jews: highly fragmented, insufficiently disputatious / Jack Wertheimer -- Once again, strangers on our shores / Mary C. Waters -- Expelling newcomers: the eclipse of constitutional community / Cecilia Muñoz -- The United States in the world community: the limits of national sovereignty / Douglas S. Massey -- "Who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd?": narrowing the enduring divisions of race / Jennifer Hochschild -- The ambivalence of citizenship: African-American intellectuals in search of community / Kevin Gaines -- Social provision and civic community: beyond fragmentation / Theda Skocpol -- Stable fragmentation in multicultural America / Paul Starr -- The moral compassion of true conservatism / John J. DiIulio Jr. -- Shaking off the past: third ways, fourth ways, and the urgency of politics / E.J. Dionne Jr. -- Epilogue: Into the unknown: unity and conflict after September 11, 2001 / Jonathan Rieder
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2004
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