Kruk, SergeiKalniņa, DiānaKažoka, AijaKozlovs, NormundsLandes, XavierĻevina, JeļenaMārtinsone, KristīneRolle, KristīneRožukalne, AndaRungule, RitmaSedlenieks, KlāvsSeņkāne, SilvaSkulte, Ilva2020-05-182020-05-182018Kruk, S. (Ed.). (2018). Pluralism Anxiety. Acting Socially in Latvia. Riga. Rīga: Rīga Stradiņš University, 205 p.978-9934-563-31-71–205http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1164Published by the decision (No 8-18/18.04.2018) of the Rīga Stradiņš University Scientific Board as a collective monographAtomized society is a constant worry of the Latvian political elite. “Unity” as a key term of the political discourse exemplifies an ambivalent attitude to pluralism. The policy documents stipulate that “social cohesion” and “social integration" are the preconditions of civic activity of the population. At the same time Latvians are reluctant to engage in collective action formulating and protecting their plural individual and group interests. This book investigates the reasons of social passivity. Interpreting the empirical research data collected in representative opinion polls, fieldwork interviews, parliamentary corpus analysis, and legal documents analysis psychologists, sociologists, social anthropologists, and students of communication discuss the constraints and enablements of social action.PrintedElectronicenAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Latviaanomiaanomieanomysocializationethnic culturesocial cohesionparliamentary discoursecorpus analysisagency and structurevaluesconcept of the stateconcept of welfarecultural dimensionscivic activismpluralisminformal economic practicescivic activism,social actionsocialityCitas psiholoģijas apakšnozares; Sociālā antropoloģija; Sociālā politika un sociālā darba organizācija; Kultūras un masu komunikāciju socioloģija; Komunikācijas teorija; Sabiedrības vadība; Sociālā filozofijaCollective Monographhttps://doi.org/10.25143/ISBN-978-9934-563-31-7_18-065