Language in a Plural Society

Language in a Plural Society
Author: Lachman Mulchand Khubchandani
Publisher:
Total Pages: 174
Release: 1988
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Seminar papers, with special reference to India.

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
Total Pages: 153
Release: 1973-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0932206484

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.

Sociolinguistics and the Narrative Turn

Sociolinguistics and the Narrative Turn
Author: Rada Tirvassen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2018-12-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004380957

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.

Politics in Plural Societies

Politics in Plural Societies
Author: Alvin Rabushka
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Comparative government
ISBN: 9780205617616

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.

Plural But Equal

Plural But Equal
Author: Harold Cruse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 430
Release: 1987
Genre: African Americans
ISBN:

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
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2006
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781845451196

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).