The Implications of Pluralism for Social Change Programs in a Canadian Arctic Community

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  • Derek G. Smith Carleton University

Abstract

The basic thesis of this paper is that the condition of poverty and social marginality differ in the structural factors that establish and maintain them in plural and nonplural social systems. In addition, these structural factors differ in the plural society and the plural community. The model of pluralism used here refers to systems displaying rigid hierarchical relations between ethnically and culturally differentiated social segments between which differential access to authority and power, rather than consensus of values between the segments, constitute the principal source of social integration. This model is applied to the social system of the Mackenzie River Delta, and some of the implications of pluralism for planned social change in this system are examined.

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2022-04-05

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Smith, D. G. (2022). The Implications of Pluralism for Social Change Programs in a Canadian Arctic Community. Anthropologica, 13(1/2), 193–214. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/1408

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Vol. 13 No. 1/2 (1971): Pilot, Not Commander: Essays in Memory of Diamond Jenness

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