Word: pluralists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pluralist community survives by binding its diverse members to some generally agreed-upon ideals. Politics is the struggle among people who share those ideals but who disagree over how to achieve them for society. On the campus, politics is more than Students for Clinton. It's working together in campus institutions to solve our own problems...
...United States--another pluralist community--we all make a bargain with the government: We get to keep our individuality, our sense of ethnicity, our notions of self and culture, our religious beliefs (or lack thereof) and the like...
...regret this decision. Political scientists have long identified the importance of "cross-cutting cleavages" in keeping pluralist societies alive. The idea is that individuals will have more than one group affiliation they care about--so they won't end up fracturing into single autonomous groups with opposing interests. As long as a single religious group doesn't populate one economic stratum, for example, religion and class can't combine to create a single warring faction...
...certify the role of gays in the military, many gay writers see their milieu as inherently dramatic. Like Jews, blacks and women in prior decades, gays have promoted their struggle for equality into the spotlight. Says Angels author Tony Kushner: "We're at a historic juncture. In a pluralist democracy, there's a moment when a minority obtains legitimacy and its rights are taken seriously by the other minorities that together make up the majority. That's happening now for gays and lesbians. We're winning, and that gives things a certain electricity...
...They should be honored for their commitment to building a multiracial and pluralist society," the letter read. "They, like their predecessors, represent the best of American youth...