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My List of potential articles are all stub articles that are related to Sociology (Sociological Terms). I also see nothing in their talk pages by fellow classmates.

1. Contextualization Contextualization (sociolinguistics)
2. Cultural Pluralism Cultural pluralism
3. Typology Talk:Typification

I am going to add to the article for Cultural pluralism. I have gone through a large amount of sources (many of which I will list below), most of which refer to cultural pluralism but do not further define it; which I feel is the goal of the article.I have chosen to add two sentences that I feel are an important addition to the article. Not only do they add to the definition of the concept in general, but they are also updated extensions of ideas that already exist in the article without losing relevancy.

Here are the editions I am making to the article in bold italics:

Cultural pluralism is a term used when smaller groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities, and their values and practices are accepted by the wider culture provided they are consistent with the laws and values of the wider society. Cultural pluralism is distinct from (though often confused with) multiculturalism. Multiculturalism lacks the requirement of a dominant culture. If the dominant culture is weakened, societies can easily pass from cultural pluralism into multiculturalism without any intentional steps being taken by that society.

A prominent example of pluralism is 20th Century United States, in which a dominant culture with strong elements of nationalism, a sporting culture, and an artistic culture contained also smaller groups with their own ethnic, religious, and cultural norms ^{citation needed]}. In 1971, the Canadian government referred to cultural pluralism, as opposed to multiculturalism, as the “very essence” of their nation’s identity. In a pluralist culture, groups not only co-exist side by side, but also consider qualities of other groups as traits worth having in the dominant culture. Pluralistic societies place strong expectations of integration on members, rather than expectations of assimilation. The existence of such institutions and practices is possible if the cultural communities are accepted by the larger society in a pluralist culture and sometimes require the protection of the law. Often the acceptance of a culture may require that the new or minority culture remove some aspects of their culture which is incompatible with the laws or values of the dominant culture.

The idea of cultural pluralism in the United States has its roots in the transcendentalist movement and was developed by pragmatist philosophers such as William James and John Dewey, and later thinkers such as Horace Kallen and Randolph Bourne. One of the most famous articulations of cultural pluralistic ideas can be found in Bourne's 1916 essay "Trans-National America". In 1976, the concept was further explored in Crawford Young’s book The Politics of Cultural Pluralism. Young’s work, in African studies, emphasizes the flexibility of the definition of cultural pluralism within a society. More recent advocates include moral and cultural anthropologist Richard Shweder.

List of some resources:

- Library and Archives Canada. Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Debates, 28^th Parliament, 3^rd Session, Volume 8 (8 October 1971)

-The Politics of Cultural Pluralism; Young, Crawford; The University of Wisconsin Press, 1976.

- Brand, S., Felner, R., Shim, M., Seitsinger, A., & Dumas, T. (2003). Middle school improvement and reform: Development and validation of a school-level assessment of climate, cultural pluralism, and school safety. Journal of Educational Psychology, 95(3), 570-588. doi:10.1037/0022-0663.95.3.570

- .Social and Cultural Pluralism as a Concept in Social System Analysis ;Marie R. Haug; Vol. 73, No. 3 (Nov., 1967), pp. 294-304; Published by: University of Chicago Press

-Cultural Relativism: Perspectives in Cultural Pluralism. by Melvin J. Herskovits. edited by Frances Herskovits. New York: Random House,1972 Pp xxvi & 293

-Psychological Aspects of Cultural Pluralism: Unity and Identity Reconsidered. Berry, J. W., v2 p17-22 Aug 1974

- Hodson, D. (1999), Going beyond cultural pluralism: Science education for sociopolitical action. Sci. Ed., 83: 775–796. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-237X(199911)83:6<775::AID-SCE8>3.0.CO;2-8

- Cultural pluralism and dilemmas of justice; Deveaux, Monique. Ithaca, Cornell Univ. Press. 2000. XII, 205 S. ISBN 0-8014-3682-6

-Cultural pluralism and psychoanalysis: the Asian and North American experience; Roland, Alan; New York Routledge.1996. XX, 218 S.

-Cultural pluralism, identity politics, and the law; Sarat, Austin ; Kearns, Thomas R.; Ann Arbor, Mich.. Univ. of Michigan Press. 2001. 192 S.;