Tolerance- Presentation

Tolerance

What is tolerance?

Tolerance (from the Latin tolerantia -. Patience, patience, acceptance, voluntary transfer of suffering) - a sociological term for tolerance to a different worldview, lifestyle, behavior and customs

Sociological theories

The problem of tolerance to microsociology level was investigated by J. G. Mead and Blumer. For an explanation of tolerance they enjoyed the description of interpersonal processes and the theory of symbolic interactionism. Personality and social action are denoted in symbols embedded attitude, position and social setting. In the future, communicating individuals interpret the symbols of each other. Assignment of signs and symbols have the identification process.

With signs of individuals and groups find their place in the system of "friend or foe". Tolerance can exist only in those cases when a person tries to look at the situation through the eyes of the "other." The same tolerance is provided by the creation of characters corresponding to the universal values, such as: [Human Rights], democracy and peace.

The most common vectors are tolerance studies in sociology:

• Gender tolerance
• Racial and ethnic tolerance
• Tolerance for people with disabilities
• Religious tolerance
• Sexually-orientation tolerance
• Political tolerance
• Educational tolerance
• Interclass tolerance

• As an important element of the culture of dialogue tolerance is recognized today a prerequisite for social unity of people of different beliefs, cultural traditions and political convictions. In this respect, it acts as a unity spontaneously negative perception of another and positive action against him; tolerant acceptance is not the same indulgence to another or forced Reconciliation denounced by the phenomenon. Tolerance is the key moral principle of civil society. At the same time, as experience shows, Absolutized tolerance opens the way for arbitrariness and violence; so that under no circumstances, the tolerance must not turn around connivance of evil, in particular tolerance of attacks on freedom and moral dignity

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