Contesting conformity, democracy and the paradox of political belonging, Jennie Choi Ikuta
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Contesting conformity, democracy and the paradox of political belonging, Jennie Choi Ikuta
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Contesting conformity
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electronic resource
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bibliographydictionaries
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Jennie Choi Ikuta
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Oxford scholarship online.
Sub title
democracy and the paradox of political belonging
Summary
"Be yourself!" "Don't just follow the crowd!" Such injunctions valorising nonconformity pervade contemporary American culture. We praise individuals such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Steve Jobs who chart their own course in life and do something new. Yet surprisingly, recent research in social psychology has shown that in practice, Americans are averse to nonconformity. This disjunction between our public rhetoric and practice raises questions: Why is nonconformity valuable? Is it always valuable, or does it pose dangers as well as promise benefits for democratic societies? What is the relationship between nonconformity as an individual ideal and democracy as a form of collective self-rule? Contesting Conformity brings a fresh interpretive lens to the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and Friedrich Nietzsche to investigate nonconformity and its relationship to modern democracy.--, Provided by publisher
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