The limits of social cohesion
Subtitle: conflict and mediation in pluralist societies : a report of the Bertelsmann Foundation to the Club of Rome
By: edited by Peter L. Berger.
Contributors: Berger, Peter L.; Bertelsmann Stiftung (Gütersloh, Germany)
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Social conflict; Social norms; Conflict management; Mediation
Description: Normative conflicts center on fundamental disagreements over issues of public morality and the identity of a society. In thinking about normative conflicts on a global scale, two principal questions arise. First, are there common characteristics of such conflicts worldwide? Second, which institutions polarize such conflicts and which can serve to mediate them?

This pathbreaking book, edited by renowned sociologist Peter Berger, examines both questions through findings gained from a study of normative conflicts in eleven societies located in different parts of the world and at different levels of economic development.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 384-391).