Culture Wars and Enduring American Dilemmas

Name: Culture Wars and Enduring American Dilemmas
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ISBN: 9780472050888

ISBN-10: 0472050885

ISBN-13: 9780472050888

Edition: 2010

Authors: Irene Taviss Thomson

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The idea of a culture war, or wars, has been around in America since the 1960s: at its heart, the theory says that an underlying ideological schism in our country is what's responsible for the polarizing debates on everything from the separation of church and state, to abortion, to gay marriage, to affirmative action.Irene Taviss Thomson, inCulture Wars and Enduring American Dilemmas, addresses at an unprecedented level of detail the question of whether political and public intellectuals on both sides of political debates actually turn out to be pretty much the same when it comes to their attitudes on cultural questions. She also takes on the discussion of how culture actually operates as a…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 2/4/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English




Culture Wars and Warring About Culture


The Culture Wars


Warring over Culture


The Culture Warriors


American Culture



Respect for Religion but Uncertainty about Its Role


The Public Sphere and Civil Religion


Dilemmas of Church-State Relations


Religious Belief and Secularization


Conclusions



Moral but not Moralistic


Through the Lenses of Morality


Abortion and Homosexuality


Moral Decline and Relativism


Moralizing and Legislating Morality


Conclusions



Individualism but not to Excess


Celebrating Individualism and Community


American Individualism: Complexities and Controversies Critiquing Multiculturalism


Multiculturalism in Relationship to the Individual, the Group, and the Society


Conclusions



Pluralism within One Culture


Historical Perspectives


Contemporary Images of Pluralism


Multicultural Education and the Canon Wars


The Difficulties of Tolerance


Conclusions



Antielitist But Respecting Achievement


Who Are the Elites, and What Is Elite Culture?


Elitism and Funding for the Arts


Ambivalence toward Elites


Elitism in the Feminist and Gay Rights Movements


Conclusions



Moderation, Plain and Simple



Culture, Class, and American Exceptionalism


Cultural Politics


American Exceptionalism?


The Continuing Significance of Class, Race, and Gender


A Polarized Population?


Sarah Palin and a Renascent Culture War?


A Multitude of Internal Divisions


Conclusions



Concluding Comments


Methodological Appendix


References


Index