Past Member
Richard A. Shweder
Rosanna and Charles Jaffin Founders’ Circle Member
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Richard Shweder is exploring the ethical and legal foundations of tolerance for diversity and examining norm conflicts between mainstream populations and cultural minority groups in a variety of national multicultural sites. He will mainly address the question: How much of global cultural diversity is domestically viable within a liberal pluralistic democracy such as the United States?
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Social Science
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Degrees
Harvard University
Ph.D.
1972
Honors
2002
Carnegie Scholar, Carnegie Corporation of New York
1997 Elected
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1985
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1982
Recipient of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Socio-Psychological Prize