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The Status and Significance of the Theory of Social and Cultural Pluralism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

James A. Monsonis*
Affiliation:
Simon's Rock of Bard College, Great Barrington; Division of Social Sciences

Extract

This is a paper tracing the history of an ideology, in the classical Marxist sense of the term: a framework of thought which purports to make sense of reality but which in fact masks its real dynamics, and which is developed in the service of class interest (Marx, 1970). The ideology in question here has to do with the ways in which social scientists conceptualize and analyse the dynamics of those societies usually described as the Third World. In recent years, following the failure of functionalism and such developmentalist schemas as Rostow's stages of economic growth, there has begun to emerge an interest in thinking about Third World societies in terms of social and cultural pluralism. It is this framework of thought which is to be examined here.

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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1987

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