The Limits of Social Cohesion: Conflict and Mediation in Pluralist Societies

by Peter L. Berger

Book Overview

Normative conflicts center on fundamental disagreements over issues of public morality and the identity of a society. In thinking about normative conflicts on a global scale, two principal questions arise. First, are there common characteristics of such conflicts worldwide? Second, which institutions polarize such conflicts and which can serve to mediate them? This pathbreaking book, edited by renowned sociologist Peter Berger, examines both questions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B002DZR1AM
• ISBN13: 9780813367194
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"