Making Knowledge/Playing Culture

Making male gametes in culture.

M aking sperm in a culture dish has been a long-term goal of reproductive biologists. In 2010, a group of investigators from Yokohama, Japan, reinvestigated an organ culture system that was originally used for testicular tissue in the 1960s (1–3). By using better molecular markers, they were able to demonstrate that some cells in this culture system underwent complete meiosis to form round sper...

The Relationship Between Organizational Culture and Managers' Decision Making Style

If you consider different activities of managers, it can be seen clearly that decision making is the essence of all management activities. Decision making is counted as integral components of management and is manifested somehow in any management duty. On the other hand, organizational culture is a pattern from fundamental default that a special group created it in the solution of problems to c...

Identity Making in Jamaican Dancehall Culture

Collective achievement of making in cosplay culture

Cosplay is a Japlish combining of Costume and Play. They are aimed an expression of affection for anime and manga’s story and characters. The majority of cosplayers in Japan are women, mostly high school and college students and people in their twenties. Cosplay is a female DIY culture. The DIY spirit embodied by this practice has become a standard in the cosplay community. Cosplay can be seen ...

Making Oppositional Culture, Making Standpoint: a Journey into Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands

The theory of oppositional culture, as discussed by Bonnie Mitchell and Joe Feagin (1995), suggests that African Americans, American Indians, and Mexican Americans draw on their own cultural resources to resist domination. Patricia Hill Collins suggests that Black women develop a unique vision of the social world based on their position within a matrix of domination that organizes intersecting ...