Publications [#288655] of Edward A. Tiryakian

Publications

1. Tiryakian, EA, Assessing Multiculturalism Theoretically: E Pluribus Unum, Sic et Non,, in Governance in Multicultural Societies, edited by Rex, J; Singh, G (Summer, 2004), pp. 1-18, Ashgate Publishing Ltd.,, ISBN 0754637689 [doi]
   (last updated on 2024/04/19)

   Abstract:
   The sociological assessments of multiculturalism as a controversial theme of late modernity have been slow to follow the initiatives of John Rex in the past ten years (Rex 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998). Mainstream American sociology, in its leading refereed journals, has paid scant attention to it and to the public debates surrounding it, with a couple of exceptions (Alba 1999; Koopmans and Statham 1999); yet, 'ethnicity', 'race' and even 'culture', which are interwoven in any discussion of 'multiculturalism', have been topics of continuing interest to various American sociological researchers. Hopefully, the present volume and the attention given to multiculturalism in a new major reference work (Radtke 2001) that will be a standard for the social sciences will be a stimuli for giving this theme the sociological focus it merits. Towards this objective, this paper is a modest attempt to assess analytically a very extensive and heterogeneous literature outside mainstream sociology. In doing so, I will draw on various leads offered by Rex and his colleagues.