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Corresponding Author: 2Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 909 Social Science Tower, Minneapolis, MN 55455, E-mail:; *The article was inspired and supported by a grant from the Edelstein Family Foundation and is part of the American Mosaic Project based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Earlier versions were presented at the Annual Meetings of the American sociological Association in Atlanta (August 2003) and the University of Minnesota Departmental Workshop Series. Santaan Serial Videos. We thank Mosaic Project students, particularly research assistants Xuefeng Zhang and Renee Morrison, for their enthusiasm and assistance. Special thanks are also due to Penny Edgell, Steven Rosenstone, and Ron Aminzade for their unflagging confidence as well as to the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. Address correspondence to either author: Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 909 Social Science Tower, Minneapolis, MN 55455, E-mail. Since the 1960s, a variety of new ways of addressing the challenges of diversity in American society have coalesced around the term “multiculturalism.” In this article, we impose some clarity on the theoretical debates that surround divergent visions of difference. Rethinking multiculturalism from a sociological point of view, we propose a model that distinguishes between the social (associational) and cultural (moral) bases for social cohesion in the context of diversity.

The framework allows us to identify three distinct types of multiculturalism and situate them in relation to assimilationism, the traditional American response to difference. We discuss the sociological parameters and characteristics of each of these forms, attending to the strength of social boundaries as well as to the source of social ties. We then use our model to clarify a number of conceptual tensions in the existing scholarly literature and offer some observations about the politics of recognition and redistribution, and the recent revival of assimilationist thought.