Rock the Vote was founded in 1996 as an attempt to exploit popular culture to boost political participation. Using pop musicians and comedians, it attempted to encourage young people to take part in politics. This article examines the formation of Rock the Vote, and explores its implications for the character of contemporary politics. It argues that Rock the Vote has to be understood not only as part of a larger shift in the nature of political campaigning and communication, but also as a response to the mutual needs of political parties and the popular culture industry. Rock the vote is both a symptom of new forms of campaigning and also a pragmatic solution to particular political problems.
Introduction: kill yr. culture -- Paradigm shift: the BMW enthusiast's discourse -- The sound that binds: negotiating community in no wave, garage rock and ska -- Genre as race, race as genre -- Got hybridity?: a mixed reevaluation of mumbo jumbo and ceremony -- Locating the punk preppy (a speculative theory) -- Conclusion
The article is devoted to the textbook by Ekaterina Isaeva "The Culture of Québec". It analyses the content of the textbook and pointed out its advantages. It shows the prospects of using this textbook in universities of the Russian Federation for the courses on social sciences and humanities.
Food and digital culture are mutually implicated in contemporary processes of knowledge production and power contestation around the world. Our introduction and the papers in this special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies seek to draw out the distinctions, parallels and overlaps across food and the digital to offer critical insights into digital food culture's capacities, paradoxes and impacts on everyday life. We ask a series of questions fundamentally focused on issues of power that signal a critical concern for the (re)production and circulation of inequality within the food and digital nexus. For us and the authors here, Cultural Studies is particularly fertile ground from which to analyse digital food culture precisely because of the discipline's commitment to critiquing power and inequality and its subsequent capacity to illuminate everyday digital food politics and their social, cultural and ethical impacts. This article presents and highlights key questions—and introduces related concepts and theoretical debates—that drive this research agenda. In addition, we address the ways the issue's papers connect to digital food culture and power after COVID-19. We conclude with a summary of the articles in the issue and their contributions to digital food culture research and cultural studies more broadly.
One of the violations of human rights is violence experienced by women, where women are placed in a weak and vulnerable position with violence in terms of physical, psychological, economic and sexual violence. This violence results in women often undergoing unfavorable treatment and results in prolonged trauma due to acts carried out by men as holders of power and superior in life, as well as dominating both in the household, the economy and also politics. The existence of patriarchal culture which has existed for a long time and assumes that women indeed in their nature must serve their husbands and as successors to offspring result in women being unable to do anything, especially if coupled with the community's assumption that a woman as a weak person not required get an education which is high because it is labeled as a weak human being and this is what causes men to increasingly dominate the superior or power of women. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of patriarchal culture to violence experienced by women and efforts to combat violence caused by patriarchal culture. Method This study was conducted with normative research by examining the literature and legislation relating to the problem under study. The result is that a culture of patriarchy dominates the superiority of men to rule where woman can rule in life its aspects.
Outsiders' reflections on being American: some pedagogical concerns / James Armstrong -- My American glasses / Francisco Martins Ramos -- American graffiti: curious derivatives of individualism / Jin K. Kim -- An outsider's view of American culture / Janusz L. Mucha -- America and I / Herv(c)♭ Varenne -- A cross-cultural experience: a Chinese anthropologist in the United States / Huang Shu-min -- The young, the rich, and the famous: individualism as an American cultural value / Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel -- Growing up American: doing the right thing / Amparo B. Ojeda -- Forms of address: how their social functions may vary / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- First impressions: diary of a French anthropologist in New York City / Fran(c)ʹoise Dussart -- Life and cultures: the test of real participant observation / E.L. Cerroni-Long -- America for Americans / Rik Pinxten -- Gender encounters in America: an outsider's view of continuity and ambivalence / Rahel Wasserfall -- Neighborly strangers / Honggang Yang -- A European anthropologist's personal and ethnographic impressions of the United States / Emanuel J. Drechsel
The mainstream publicity garnered from Molefi Kete Asante's Afrocentric paradigm has led to an often anti-intellectual and nonacademic misappropriation of its constructs. This approach fashioned out of mainstream sound bytes, commonly characterized as "Pop Culture Afrocentrism," suggests that a discourse need only feature or mention people of African descent to be considered Afrocentric. Such an approach has often led to the application of base intellectual offerings by scholars claiming to utilize Afrocentric methodology. This article discusses how mainstream media sound byte–type approaches toward Afrocentricity has (a) led to a dearth of understanding of the concept and (b) created the need for contemporary intellectuals to produce research that critically applies the Afrocentric paradigm in alignment with Asante's conceptualization in order to prevail over typical anti-Black mainstream contributions. To distinguish pop culture Afrocentrism from the Afrocentric paradigm, focus is placed on Asante's location theory as one of the most essential aspects of Afrocentric inquiry.
AbstractResearch on culture and negotiation is critical for expanding theories of negotiation beyond Western cultures and for helping people to manage their interdependence in a world of increasing global threats and opportunities. Despite progress of understanding cultural influences on negotiation, research is limited in that it portrays a static and decontextualized view of culture and ignores cultural dynamics. The almost exclusive focus on main effects of culture in negotiation has its roots in a subjectivist approach to culture which has prioritized the study of values, or trans-situational goals. In this article, we discuss the descriptive norms approach to culture and its promise for the study of culture and negotiation. A descriptive norms approach highlights the dynamics of culture in negotiation (i.e., the conditions under which culture effects become amplified, reduced, or even reversed), it identifies new empirical mediating mechanisms for cultural effects, and it sheds new light into understanding cultural competence in intercultural negotiations.
Africa was long seen primarily as an importer of global cultural forms, but it is now on the verge of becoming a major exporter of popular culture to the world.
The typology of cultures is one of the significant issues in the humanities and social studies, and it is becoming very important in the current era of globalization growth. The purpose of the present research is to analyze existing academic concepts and approaches towards cultures typology. The research is of an interdisciplinary nature and involves categories and concepts from philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, management, etc.There is presented a brief overview of cultures typology scientific concepts. The article reveals that notable researches follow dynamic approach towards cultures typology influenced by current globalization trends rather than static models of sociocultural systems typology. Currently, most of sociocultural systems have to adapt or transform in order to cope with globalization trends. Authors underline the need to change the paradigm of academic understanding of cultures typology and to update approaches for cultures typology model development.The authors presume that following the idea that the globalization core is coming from the Western civilization, the countries that push for technological revolution 4.0 are forced to focus on the centered ideological and semantic patterns where the Westerners could define points of demarcation with representatives of non-Western societies. This explains the tendency of comparative management theorists to measure the degree of cultural distance between countries. In this context, the theory of cultural and orientation values types seems to be one of the most promising methods of cultures typology.Following the structural-system approach, the authors determine a culture as a mega-system consisting of the main macro-systems (macro-cultures) and sub-systems (micro-cultures). The article stresses that globalization challenges push countries all over the world to think of the need to develop a common basis for mutual understanding. The authors suggest that the formation of a global network civilization as a mega-culture, in which the opportunities for communication between different cultures are more developed due to innovative technologies, should become a confident answer to existing global challenges.
Culture and leadership research in the last decade witnessed a general upsurge. Empirical studies that determined the scores of the subgroup cultures and examined leadership styles and preferences in Nigeria, have not been exhaustively carried out. This study therefore examined subgroup cultures and leadership styles in Nigerian organizations. Due to the structure of most Nigerian public organizations which are characterized by multi-ethnic groups with heterogeneous cultural beliefs, this study examined the differences in the Hofstede's culture dimensions' scores, leadership styles and preferences among Yoruba subgroup in Nigeria with focus on Power Distance and Individualism/Collectivism. Survey research design was adopted, making use of questionnaire for data collection. The study made use of 345 members of staff purposively selected from among the Yoruba subgroups in the Central Bank of Nigeria Headquarters in Abuja. The data generated from the structured questionnaire were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) for descriptive statistics. Hofstede's culture dimensions of power distance and individualism/collectivism were computed using the Value Survey Module (VSM) developed by Hofstede. This study found that there is a high power distance among the Yoruba subgroup, and the leadership style preferred by the Yoruba's is the democratic style of leadership and that the Yoruba subgroup is a collectivistic society.
The purpose of the article is to study approaches to the development of corporate culture of healthcare workers in terms of forming a tolerant attitude to patients belonging to various ethno-cultural and confessional groups. This topic has become relevant not only due to the need to improve the quality of medical care provided to the population, but also due to the increased requirements for medical organizations in attracting extra-budgetary funds through import of medical services. Among the measures of managerial actions is further development of the foundations of the corporate culture of employees of medical organizations, which can contribute to solving the problem of attracting patients belonging to different national and religious groups. The results of the analysis (systematization of scientific literature and sociological survey in the form of interviews) of the main problems, the solution of which is associated with development of corporate culture, show that the following issues come to the fore: successful communication of doctors and nurses with patients; differentiation of opinions on organ transplantation (donation); critical situations connected with euthanasia, termination of pregnancy, death of patient (including suicide); attitude to the issues of life reproduction (artificial conception, surrogacy, cloning); difficulty of observing rituals during the treatment of patients. This article presents conclusions on the analysis of two above problems and possible approaches to their solution: 1) communication of medical workers with patients; 2) attitude to organ transplantation. The authors propose measures for formation of new competencies in the corporate culture (as a set of formal and informal requirements in a medical organization imposed on its employees) aimed at preventing and overcoming conflict situations arising from misunderstandings in the relationship between patients and medical staff.
SUMMARY Though many arguments for the role of cultural factors in development have been circular or ideological, development is necessarily a culturally determined process. It is an attempt to realize certain aspirations which, however universal, are still held in the context of other goals particular to national or religious traditions which the subjects of development wish to preserve. Cultures also provide particular institutional means (sex roles, forms of organization, etc.) of development. As a precipitate of history, culture also includes people's ideas about the conditions of development itself. If we are seriously to engage with the subjects of development, these above all cannot be ignored.RESUME L'Impact de la Tradition Culturelle sur le DéveloppementSi maintes arguments apportés a l'appui du rôle culturel dans le développement sont de nature péremptoire ou idéologique, le processus de développement reste essentiellement conditionné par la culture. Ce processus vise à la réalisation de certaines aspirations, si universelles qu'elles soient, qui demeurent toujours axées sur d'autres objectifs particuliers à la culture, nationale ou réligieuse que les intéressés en voie de développement tiennent à conserver. La culture inspire la forme des instruments institutionnels de développement (rôles sexuels, modèles d'organisation); sur le plan historique, elle représente les notions humaines sur la nature même du développement. Aucun chercheur sérieux, se consacrant à l'étude du développement ne peut se permettre d'ignorer ces considérations.RESUMEN La Importancia de la Cultura para los Estudios del DesarrolloAunque es cierto que muchos de los argumentos relacionados con el rol de los factores culturales en el desarrollo han sido de carácter circular o ideológico, el desarrollo es por necesidad un proceso determinado culturalmente. Es un intento de llevar a cab o ciertas aspiraciones que, si bien son universales, están sin embargo envueltas en el contexto de otras metas, correspondientes a las tradiciones nacionales o religiosas que los sujetos del desarrollo desean preservar. Las diferentes culturas proveen además medios institucionales específicos para el desarrollo (rol de los sexos, formas de organización, etc. . . .). Como un precipitado de la historia, la cultura también incluye las ideas que la gente tiene acerca de las condiciones del desarrollo mismo. Si se trata de interesarse seriamente en los sujetos del desarrollo, éstos, por sobre todo, no pueden ser ignorados.
