New forms of reflexive ethnization

Value-normative universalism and ethnic particularisms

verfasst von

Mathias Bös

Abstract

A common theme in analyses of social problems today is the increasing importance of different aspects of social identity in political claim making. Benhabib observes, “Since the late 1970s demands for the recognition of identities based on gender, race, language, ethnic background, and sexual orientation have been challenging the legitimacy of established constitutional democracies�? (2002: viii). Taylor and Honneth (1992) have made similar, but separate, arguments about the growing signifi cance of the “politics of recognition�? (Taylor 1992). This growing demand for the social and political inclusion of ethnic groups is often interpreted as the rise of ethnic particularism. But particularistic demand for recognition in politics typically refers to value-normative universalism as an integral part of our global multi-culture (Nederveen Pieterse 2007), as epitomized in the omnipresent discourse on human rights.

Externe Organisation(en)

Philipps-Universität Marburg

Typ

Beitrag in Buch/Sammelwerk

Seiten

268-279

Anzahl der Seiten

12

Publikationsdatum

2011

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Allgemeine Sozialwissenschaften

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 10 – Weniger Ungleichheiten

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203803394-25 (Zugang: Unbekannt)