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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"cultural logics"”.
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What is a ‘Good’ Job? Cultural Logics of Occupational Prestige
… the ways people construct the status hierarchy (“logics” of occupational prestige). It finds evidence for four distinct logics of occupational prestige, and demonstrates that the particular logic a person uses depends on their own social position.</p>
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Examining Chinese International Secondary School Students in Transnational Spaces: Becoming Flexible Citizens?
… are influenced by socio-economic, political and cultural forces circulating in and connecting across the home and host spaces of China and Canada. As the overarching frame, the study employs Ong’s (1999) notion of ‘flexible citizenship,’ examining the cultural logics mediating students’ lives and …
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Deconstructing Michael Jordan: Popular Culture, Politics, and Postmodern America
Michael Jordan is one of the most socially and culturally significant figures within late twentieth century America. Despite his current ubiquity in the diverse networks of the popular media, Jordan has largely been neglected by critical cultural analysts. In redressing what is clearly a serious …
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What’s Race Got to Do with It? Race, Gender, and Sexual Politics in East Asian Americans’ Interracial/-Ethnic Relationships
… and disapproval. Chapter 2 investigates the cultural logics and subjective experiences underlying some U.S.-born/-raised East Asians’ stigmatization of White Male/Asian Female (WMAF) unions, ultimately arguing that these interracial dyads constitute a politically significant symbol for those …
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"Producing ""Local"" Repertoire: Czech Identity, Pop Music, and the Global Music Industry"
… study considers the politics and complexity of cultural production, consumption, and exchange by examining how cultural identity and the specific social and economic relations of symbolic creativity relate to the corporate production of music transnationally. Utilizing a multi-sited ethnography …
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Assembling the Chinese City: Production of Place and the Articulation of New Urban Spaces in Wuhan, China
… In the case of China, multiple ideologies and cultural logics inform the understanding of cities. However, these ideas are articulated through the primary technologies of rule the PRC has employed since its founding: the dual structure and the Leninist, top-down, spatial hierarchy. Rather than …
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The Breakdown of Norms as Institutional Change: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Decline of the 'No -Lateral -Hiring' Norm Among Large Corporate Law Firms, 1974--1990
… in broader, field-level institutions such as cultural logics and belief systems can influence change in organizational practices. Less understood are norms that exist among organizations and how they begin to break down. Interorganizational norms are often linked to institutions existing in …
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Constructing Effectiveness: Culture, Legitimacy, and Strategic Planning in Zoos and Aquariums
… coding leaders’ definitions of effectiveness and cultural orientations derived from open-ended responses. Results showed leaders expressing more complex and multidimensional definitions of effectiveness tended to rate their organizations as more effective, and market-oriented cultural …
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Embodied narratives: Ways of reading student literacy histories
… not simply reflect personal, private crises but cultural phenomena---including taken-for-granted issues surrounding the "necessity" of discipline and an almost shocking attention to "cleanliness" in relation to the body and the body's prose. My aim, in part, is to question how culture acts in the …
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There Is No Name for What We Must Become: Autonomous Social Movement in Southern Illinois
… from a variety of political, economic, and cultural factors. In particular, I explore how the initiatives at times reproduced individualized market logics similar to those promoted by neoliberal social policy. At the same time, by exploring these limits, the Carbondale Spring offers us a …
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Building Servicescape Culture: Examining Social Order, Spatial Change, and Consumer Experience
… environments, consumers draw upon multiple cultural logics to understand how to act and how to interpret experiences. Co-present, heterogeneous activities can complement or conflict with each other, depending on ways that consumers employ cultural and material resources to construct their …