Word: pluralistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warmth inspired by the Pope's presence poses a conundrum about the man and his views. Although Mexico is largely anticlerical and Poland is Communist, the vast majority of their citizens are Catholics who have been reared from infancy to respect the papacy. But the U.S. is a pluralist, secular, sexually permissive society, and in the past two decades Americans have come to view with suspicion all institutions and authority, social, political or religious...
Secondly, Mr. Epstein shares Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold's confusion about the limits of ethnic participation in a democratic society. The pluralist model for managing ethnic interactions permits both exclusivity and inclusivity in subcultural practices or endeavors, while simultaneously cultivating an open-ended universalism or cosmopolitanism as a style (value) for national institutions. At the extreme of exclusivism is the Amish model: total rejection of and isolation from modern society, cosmopolitanism and all. This is difficult to attain but if you work at it, as the great Amish people of my home state of Pennsylvania have, you can achieve much...
...Last week you met with the Portuguese Foreign Minister [Melo Antunes] and the Administration has put forward to Congress the proposal for $85 million in aid. How do you now feel about the survival of pluralist democracy in Portugal...
...Wright Mills had been the first to say that the pluralist, end-of-ideology emperor had no clothes, but SDS was the first organized attempt to challenge the smugness of the American celebration of the nineteen-fifties. In response to liberal academics like S.M. Lipset, Daniel Bell, and others who maintained that fundamental conflict was absent in post-industrial America, and that decisions about the direction of society were purely technical, SDS's founding charter--the Port Huron Statement--condemned a "perverted democracy" that permitted "disastrous policies to go unchallenged time and again." These charges--which seem mild in retrospect...
...which the government sets policy. That climate determines how well the ministry party pulls together on crucial issues. Crossman's focus would distort the decision-making process: consensus is needed in the party, coercion in the nation. He underestimates the multiple centers of power which prevail in a pluralist democratic electorate...