VALUES, MULTICULTURALISM AND SOCIAL POWER

Integration and Multiculturalism: Ways towards Social Solidarity

Selective Multiculturalism? Symbols of Ethnic Identity and Core Values Theory

This paper is a retrospective critique of the sociological theory of Symbols of Ethnic Identity and Core Values developed by Jerzy Smolicz, and the social milieu in which it took place. The theory claimed to be based on the inductive, humanistic sociology approach of Florien Znaniecki. It was concerned with ascribing language and ideological values to the identity of students from migrant famil...

Multiculturalism: From Heterogeneities to Social (In)Equalities

SFB 882 Working Papers are refereed scholarly papers. Submissions are reviewed by peers in a two-stage SFB 882 internal and external refereeing process before a final decision on publication is made. The Working Paper Series is a forum for presenting works in progress. Reviewers should communicate comments on the manuscript directly to the author(s). Whether fat or thin, male or female, young o...

Multiculturalism in social agencies for the aged

This study uses content analysis and visual representation methods to explore how multiculturalism is displayed on the websites of agencies providing social care for the aged. These agencies use strategically planned texts to portray multicultural categories of inclusion, diversity and individuality; and emphasize the text referents through ethno-related pictures as universal equivalence symbol...

Common Principles and Multiculturalism

Judgment on rightness and wrongness of beliefs and behaviors is a main issue in bioethics. Over centuries, big philosophers and ethicists have been discussing the suitable tools to determine which act is morally sound and which one is not. Emerging the contemporary bioethics in the West has resulted in a misconception that absolute westernized principles would be appropriate tools for ethical d...