Integration debates are normative arguments about principled social change

Evidence

Integration is a concept with a long history that goes to the heart of how we understand the kinds of social relations that characterize modern societies, from rural to urban, from kinship to community. This dynamic has been recast in thinking about the integration of ethnic minority diversity, and a large part of European politics is presently occupied with coming to terms with how this renews and/ or unsettles established social and political configurations. Here integration starts to become a debate that describes not only processes of change that occur among groups, but what a principled position on that change should look like. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 444

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines integration as spanning both descriptive group processes and prescriptive positions on those processes — a key move in the definitional contest.
• XREF: connects to: Integration discourse is both descriptive process and prescriptive ideal — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 439; Norm-change mechanisms transfer across cultures when rooted in local leadership — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 7391

Related

• Integration discourse is both descriptive process and prescriptive ideal (similarity 0.93)

Broader Connections

• Integration discourse is both descriptive process and prescriptive ideal #expands (0.85) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 439
• Norm-change mechanisms transfer across cultures when rooted in local leadership #qualifies (0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 7391