Abstract
The Caribbean has had the longest experience of European tutelage of any Third World region; its economic development until the Second World War was dictated by the sugar plantation; its major cultural components were introduced through the importation of coloured labour managed by a white plantocracy under conditions of slavery and indenture. The chapter traces Smith’s extension of his early work on social and cultural pluralism into legal and political spheres. It examines the evolution of the interrelationship between these various modes of pluralism, using as a context the social history of Jamaica and Trinidad. The principal institutional systems that are involved in defining a population’s culture and social relations are family, kinship, education, religion, property, economy and recreation. Critics of cultural pluralism claim that it emphasises institutional differences and neglects the importance of shared values.
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