ONTOLOGY

pluralism is the belief that reality is many individual things rather than one interconnected thing

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William James

Remarkable James site, filled with texts

Charles Peirce

Peirce had a powerful influence on James' thought

ETHICS

pluralism is the belief that reality is many individual things rather than one interconnected thing

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Multiculturalism and ethics

From Ethics Updates

American Civil Liberties Union

Key organization coming out of early discussion of pluralism

POLITICS

pluralism is the belief that many groups comprise the polity, and the best government is one which accommodates many different interests in society

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Civil Society

On inventing "Post-modern political culture"

Democracy in America

A fine site at the University of Virginia on Tocqueville

CULTURE

pluralism is the situation in which many different cultural practices coexist in a society, often interacting to create new practices

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Affirmative Action and Diversity Project

Although on recent materials, raises many of the same issues from early in the century

Standards

A journal about multiculturalism

SOCIOLOGY

pluralism is the belief that society is constructed of multiple interacting groups

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Cultural Studies Center

Emphasis upon recent theory and theorists

Ethnic Studies

Good Clearinghouse of links

ANTHROPOLOGY

pluralism is the belief that ethnic units co-exist in dynamic relation to one another

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Ethnoarcheology and Ethnohistory

Good links and some on-line materials

American Folklife Center

Library of Congress site, with links to its on-line resources

RELIGION

pluralism is the belief that there are many ways to express faith

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The Pluralism Project

Diana Eck's multimedia site at Harvard

ECONOMICS

pluralism is the belief that the key to economic life is equal competition among economic agents

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Thorstein Veblen

A group of on-line Veblen texts

Archive for the History of Economic Thought

The home for the above Veblen documents, plus Commons, Fisher, Taylor