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共生学ジャーナル. 2024, 8, p. 1-20

The Diversity of Diversity: Theorizing Pluralism and Inclusion from the Perspective of Coexistence Christian Etzrodt

大阪大学大学院人間科学研究科『共⽣学ジャーナル』編集委員会

English

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2024-03

論文

The aim of this paper is to provide a more nuanced analysis of the social issues of ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender, ability, class, and race based on their causes and possible approaches to the problems of effective social diversity traditionally seen in each. For this purpose, a conceptual framework is introduced, which sees assimilation and separation as extreme poles of a continuum with the strategy of inclusion in the centre. Inclusion is defined as a strategy that allows the existence of equal subgroups in the society, which interact with each other. Assimilation eliminates the subgroups in order to guarantee that members interact with each other. Separation eschews interaction between groups in order to preserve cohesion within subgroups. I show that ethnicity, religion, and sexuality are related to attempts of the majority to assimilate the marginalized subgroups. Gender is an issue of incomplete inclusion. Whereas ability, class, and race exemplify a scenario of forced separation from the centre. Since these social issues have different structural causes, different solutions are available for the marginalized groups. These implications are discussed within the context of coexistence studies and its most celebrated strategy of choice, symbiotic coexistence, which has a close affinity to inclusion.

10.18910/94951

94951

The Diversity of Diversity: Theorizing Pluralism and Inclusion from the Perspective of Coexistence Christian Etzrodt

Etzrodt, Christian

大阪大学大学院人間科学研究科『共⽣学ジャーナル』編集委員会

English

2024-03

共生学ジャーナル

8

1

20

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/94951

10.18910/94951

https://doi.org/10.18910/94951