The article is devoted to the analysis of role phenomena ethnic diversification and identity in social development polyethnic countries. These are considered as complex socio-cultural constructs that traditionally based on ethnicity, culture aspects human life nature their functioning depends specific conditions a society. Based study works domestic foreign researchers, contents both clarified,...

Entrepreneurs have been traditionally epitomized as rugged individuals garnering creative forces of innovation and technology. Applying this traditional, limited, and narrow view of entrepreneurship to ethnic firm creation and growth is to ignore or discount core cultural values of the ethnic contexts in which these firms operate. It is no longer possible to depend solely on human capital theor...

The Cultural Involvement and Detachment Anxiety Questionnaire (D. W. McNeil, C. A. Porter, M. J. Zvolensky, & J. M. Chaney, 1998) and the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (J. S. Phinney, 1992) were administered to 160 Navajo college students to explore the relation between ethnic identity and culturally related anxiety, compare level of ethnic identity in reference to standardized samples, an...

The web is a potentially powerful tool for communicating information to diverse audiences. Unfortunately, all groups are not equally represented on the web, and this may have implications for online information seeking. This study investigated the role of classand ethnic-based identity in self-perceived web-based information seeking/finding and self-efficacy. A questionnaire was administered as...

This article (part of a special section on South Asian border studies) is an exploration multi-religious ethnic group in the borderland district Poonch Jammu and Kashmir, India. The work focuses Pahari ethnicity looks at how prominent religious identities within this have been continuously aligning themselves along lines post-partition era. Partition Indian subcontinent 1947 acted as major disr...

Workforce population trends have increased the numbers and kinds of culturally diverse people who work together. Researchers in organizational behavior have often examined culture through values; however, cultural values can be based on collections of people other than traditional nation states. A cultural mosaic is presented as a framework to identify demographic, geographic, and associative f...

The present study tested the independent and interactive effects of multiple group identities (i.e., American and ethnic) and racial discrimination on civic beliefs among immigrant adolescents. Seventy-seven participants completed a questionnaire during after-school programs. Ethnic identity was positively associated with civic beliefs whereas racial discrimination was negatively related to civ...

Research on identity development has paid relatively little attention to the development of marginalised identities such as those of gays and lesbians, whose isolation from the canonical narrative of sexuality may limit the available resources required for establishing a coherent identity. We examined these contested identities in relation to cultural-historical factors that may have played a r...