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...

We use experimental methods to study coordination games analogous to voting games over fixed divisions of a pie. We find that players use the ethnic or gender identities of other players, rather than other payoff irrelevant features of a game’s description, to achieve coordination. Coordination along or across gender lines, we show, can be attributed in part to the presence of social norms rath...

In many Latin American countries football has been central to the formation of identities in the twentieth century, whether these be national, ethnic, local, generational, or gender identities. In this light, a comparison between the explanations given for the Brazilian defeat in the 1950 World Cup, which took place in Brazil itself, and that in the 1998 World Cup Final in France can serve as a...

This literature review examines the changing roles of ethnic enclaves, the question of their authenticity, and their value as commodified spaces, giving special attention to Little Italy neighborhoods in the United States. Understanding the roles of ethnic enclaves requires some understanding about immigrants' identities. For some theorists, immigrants become blended into society over the cours...

Many studies have explored the social consequences of ethnic essentialism in recent decades. In addition, a few studies have focused on the impact of perceived cultural context on ethnic essentialism. However, it is not clear why perceived cultural context can lead to changes in ethnic essentialism. In the present study, we hypothesized that the cultural anxiety of ethnic minorities may trigger...

How do individuals of Asian descent in the United States identify themselves in ethnic terms and why? In this study, we map the contours of ethnic self identities among adults in this immigrant community of color and explain their identity preferences with a new and large-scale survey that collects public opinion from randomly selected individuals of the six largest Asian American descents who ...

Cultural festivals have grown in diversity, scale and popularity many migrant-receiving societies recent years schools increasingly become involved supporting these for intercultural exchange celebration. While prior research has found that cultural play a significant role maintaining enhancing traditions, much less focused on the as sites of conviviality, cross-cultural encounters solidarity –...

in order to elucidate the significance and the position of international cultural relations in transformation of global peace and security, we should initially study its indicators through the cultural relationships among the nations, public, private and international organizations, social movements, international displacement /migration and modern communication technologies and then we should ...