Class Identities and Cultural Practices: New Debates on Recent Theories

The Cultural Relativity of Organizational Practices and Theories

This paper summarizes the author's recently published findings about differences in people's work-related values among 50 countries. In view of these differences, ethnocentric management theories (those based on the value system of one particular country) have become untenable. This concept is illustrated for the fields of leadership, organization, and motivation. * A key issue for organization...

Mentalités, Identities, and Practices

Race, Class, and Cultural Reproduction: Critical Theories in Urban Education

In spite of decades of reform attempts urban education remains an intractable policy issue for educators. National and state level data continue to show disparities in educational achievement and attainment between students from affluent and poor urban communities. If past policies have not proven to be effective in substantially improving urban educational systems the question is why? In this ...

Persian Diasporic Bloggers and Virtual Performance of Cultural Identities

This paper focuses on the concept of consciousness and liminality in the Iranian Diaspora and the way Iranians create digital diasporas where they can practise cultural identities outside the homeland. The discussion elaborates on the concept of traditional dowreh (family/social circle) in the fibre of Persian culture and then illustrates the creation of a virtual dowreh among...

A New Class of Persons: Intercountry Adoptees and Postcolonial Theories of Cultural Hybridity

The recent earthquake in Haiti thrust the debate over intercountry adoption into the mainstream media. The Associated Press reported that before the earthquake devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010, there were 380,000 parentless Haitian children. Estimates reported in the New York Times suggest that the earthquake orphaned hundreds of thousands of additional Haitian children who are now in need ...