big city‚ whilst other people like to live far away from the city or ‘With their own people’. The Netherlands is a multicultural society which is not a new phenomenon‚ and has gone a long way since the 1950’s with the first waves of immigrants. A pluralist society should not be mistaken for an open minded society which is accepting to her communities or majorities. Multi-culture poses many conflicts in the modern Dutch society and is forcing the Dutch culture to adapt to its foreign
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perceptive and succeeds in generating actively engaged citizens in our pluralist society. The common values we share in society which it promotes are integrity‚ equality‚ inclusion‚ diversity and responsibility. Across the four strands of the curriculum‚ ethos‚ philosophy of the school and most importantly the lived ethos of Educate Together schools these common values can be seen. The Educate Together curriculum is pluralist in nature and recognises the influential role teachers and valuing the
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Do you agree that in modern liberal democratic societies the state is now reduced to being ‘one actor amongst many’ ? In the contemporary world‚ most societies hold a liberal democratic basis. They are governed by political parties for which have been obtained the right to the legal rule through democratic election processes. In that respect‚ a liberal democracy is one that grants power to the government while ensuring limits of its power through a system of checks and balances. It may be described
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In the world of today‚ there are four main theories of political power. Each one is a specific belief of who actually controls the government. They are the Marxist Theories‚ The Power Elite‚ the Bureaucratic Theory‚ and the Pluralist Theory. In the first theory‚ the Marxist Theory‚ it is believed that the large corporations control or influence what happens in the government. This ideology is based on the writings of Carl Marx‚ but there are many different versions or Marxism‚ all arguing on the
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doctrine that emphasized reasoned moral behavior and the scientific pursuit of knowledge. Most deists rejected biblical inerrancy and the divinity of Christ‚ but they did believe that a Supreme Being created the universe Unitarians- Believe in a unitary deity‚ reject the divinity of Christ‚ and emphasize the inherent goodness of mankind. Unitarianism‚ inspired in part by Deism‚ first caught on in New England at the end of the 18th century Second Great Awakening- Religious revival characterized by
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continuation of Progressivism. In several important ways‚ the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt set the United States on a course that diverged substantially from the vision of Progressivism. In particular‚ The New Deal accepted that the United States was a pluralist nation and moved away from the overbearing program of assimilation that had characterized the Progressive era solution to national identity. And the New Dealers did not revive the imperialist ambitions that had led the United States into intervention
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A safe space is a place designated for students to express themselves freely with others who are going through many of the same hardships. “At Fusion‚ Malcolm Harris tracks the provenance of this rather peculiar idea. The original “safe spaces‚” he writes‚ were established by gays and lesbians in the mid ’60s and subsequently picked up by feminists who hoped to “distance” themselves “from men and patriarchal thought.” These “spaces‚” he notes‚ “were not entirely free of internal disagreement‚” but
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as well as economies. Politically‚ reformers and dissidents wanted to end party-state dictatorships and move towards a pluralist democracy. Economically‚ centrally planned economies were unsuccessful due to increased bureaucracy‚ excessive centralization‚ and debt obligation. Velvet revolutions in Eastern Europe changed countries towards market-oriented economies and pluralist democracies. Countries of the Eastern European bloc had a similar goal in the 1970s and 1980s: to end party-state
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Social reform is a movement that seeks to change the social and political views of discounted groups. Social reform movements involve the discounted groups and activists in an effort to change political policy while bringing public awareness to the issue through protests‚ media‚ amended legislature‚ etc. The social reform movements from 1820-1860 were characterized by unyielding perfectionism‚ impatience with compromise‚ and distrust with established social institutions. These qualities explain the
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INDEX 1. The Differentiation between VSM and SSM 1.1 Viable System Model..........................................................................2 1.1.1 A brief overview of VSM.......................................................2 1.1.2 Argumentation on VSM........................................................3 1.2 Soft Systems Methodology....................................................4 1.2.1 A simple description of SSM................................................4 1.2.2 Commentary
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