The notion of linguistic imperialism analyzes the dominance language used by powerful over other languages world. This endangers indigenous world and promotes myths about necessity learning English language. It also tends to promote Western ideologies culture. present study has focused on ways imperialized education system Pakistan ideological cultural objectives English-speaking countries. dat...

Critical ethnographies and methods of relational comparison provide tools for reconfiguring area studies to challenge imperial visions of the world; for illuminating power-laden processes of constitution, connection, and disconnection; and for identifying slippages, openings, contradictions, and possibilities for alliances. Crucial to this project are Lefebvrian conceptions of the production of...

What a welcome and timely question to ask: are we too solution focused in importing crew resource management (CRM) training into surgery? As a newly minted airline pilot and a professor at a faculty of medicine, I can see accusations of imperialism brewing. Grafting an off-the-shelf ‘solution’ onto an ongoing and wellestablished field of practice, without showing the evidence base to justify it...

This essay reviews three prominent sociological studies of firms and markets: Neil Fligstein’s The Architecture of Markets, Glenn Carroll and Michael Hannan’s The Demography of Corporations, and Harrison C. White’s Markets from Networks. The review essay discusses how economic sociology focuses on processes ignored by economists. However, research findings and theoretical developments are rarel...

Nations have historically sought power and prosperity through control of physical space. In recent decades, however, this has largely ceased. Most states that could do so appear relucant, while the weak cannot expand. This article presents a theory of imperialism and decolonization that explains both historic cycles of expansion and decline and the collective demise of the urge to colonize. Tec...