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The majority of Western ethnological museums search for new approaches to the treatment of cultural diversity, not only in the Americas, as an outcome of extensive immigration producing a variety of cultures, but also in European nation-states, where museums in postcommunist countries concentrate on the study of a national culture. However this reductive, imposed dichotomy needs to be qualified to some extent. Most authors who discuss postcommunist countries fall into the reductive trap, since they hold on to the cold war attitude of observing such locations in terms of blocs and oppositions. The situation is actually more complex, since diverse practices and approaches can be found within and between countries and within and between their museum institutions. We will address this problem by using examples from Croatian ethnographic museums.
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AbstractThe study of social mobility has traditionally been made in a static fashion. The link between mobility and social policies makes it possible to reopen the question. Three types of policies : educational reform, cash subsidies, and stratum mobility, are involved. For each of these approaches, the authors examine several policies which they criticize or which they suggest, for example, Operation Head Start, adult education, and fiscal measures designed to effectively reduce the distance between strata. The problem of power and of economic policies should be part of the concern and of the training of sociologists.
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