Pluralism: Cultural Maintenance and Evolution

This book deals with some of the principles of pluralism in a modern Western society. Starting with a detailed examination and illustration of the concept of culture, the book goes on to establish how this comes under attack and has to be modified due to external forces and finally draws the conclusion that for an ethnic group to survive and maintain its culture the group may need to establish some separate structures and institutions. Another theme of the book is that the dominant ethnic gro…