Freedom within bars: maximum security prisoners’ negotiations of identity through rap

This paper examines the construction of prisoners’ identity through rap in England’s high security prisons. While hip hop studies has often addressed rap’s connection to the social practices of criminalized youths, prison rap cultures have received scant attention. This paper draws on a series of rap workshops and interviews with prisoners to investigate the experiences of black prisoners in high security prisons and how identities are produced and negotiated through rap. Rap is associated with the production of a range of identities and identifications, enabling prisoners to accommodate themselves to the conditions of their incarceration and to challenge aspects of the criminal justice system that they experience as unfair or illegitimate.     

疾病、文化抑或其他?——同性恋研究的人类学视角

客观存在的同性恋群体长期以来属于人类学研究的禁区,其承受的污名和歧视使触碰这一领域的学者规模和作品数量相对稀少,这种情况在中国人类学界尤为明显。从学科认识论来看,同性恋研究经历了"性逆转"、"性倒错"的医学范式;异性恋框架主导的文化影响模式;建构学派的历史、政治、经济视角批判;以及酷儿理论的全盘颠覆和开放式探索。     

吉尔吉斯斯坦政治稳定的政治文化解读

吉尔吉斯斯坦自独立以来出现的民众对国家认同的传统政治文化的缺失,对于现代政治文化的脆弱、部族主义政治文化的坐大以及植入政治文化的＂感召＂,构成吉政治文化的＂碎片化＂状态,共同催生了近20年的政治动荡。文章通过对吉政治文化的解读,揭示吉政治文化对其政治稳定的影响。     

社会语言学视角下的商务英语语言研究

语言是社会文化的产物。作为普通英语的社会功能变体,商务英语在跨文化语境中表现出极强的社会文化交互关系。本文从社会语言学的角度切入,研究商务英语的语言特点,致力于探讨商务英语的语言使用与商务语境之间的观照关系。     

网络文化对大学生社会主义核心价值体系认同的影响

认同的形成与发展受到文化的影响。网络文化作为凝聚着人类智慧的国际文化，改变着人们的思维方式、生活方式和行为方式。网络文化对大学生社会主义核心价值体系认同影响有其内在的机理，并产生了积极的影响。     

新文化运动对儒家文化的影响

儒学在两千多年的中国文化中占据着统治地位,这一现象在世界文明中也是独一无二的。1915年发起的新文化运动最终打破这一传统,使许多西方思想观念传入中国,对传统文化造成极大冲击,儒家思想受到批判。然而,由于儒家文化内在的演进逻辑与中国文明能够很好的贴合,儒家文化实际并没有消失,而是深深植根于中国人的精神世界中。     

发挥兵团文化优势，建设军垦新型生育文化

新疆生产建设兵团在五十多年的时间里，形成了具有明显兵团特色的新型军垦生育文化。本文拟从移民文化、党政军企合一的军垦文化、兵团特色的妇女文化等视角来揭示兵团新型军垦生育文化的成因．为构建社会主义新型生育文化提供一个可资借鉴的经验。     

Opinions toward suicide: Cross-national evaluation of cultural and religious effects on individuals

This study evaluates the role that religious and cultural values have on individual opinions toward suicide worldwide. Using multilevel modeling with data from the fourth wave of the World Values Survey (42,299 individuals in 43 countries), the current study is designed to analyze the effect of individual (i.e., micro-level), and country (i.e., macro-level) characteristics on opinions toward suicide. Specifically, cultural values, religious affiliation, religious importance, and church attendance are analyzed at both the individual and country levels to evaluate the impact of individual and country level effects on opinions toward suicide. The results show that individual opinions toward suicide are influenced by individual belief as well as by the cultural and religious characteristics of their country. The results suggest that evaluation of individual opinions toward controversial behavior should account for the unique and cross-interaction effects of micro- and macro-level effects.     

Latino Cultural Assets and Substance Abuse Services: Opportunity Knocks

SUMMARY

Latino cultural assets represent a vast untapped resource for the field of substance abuse in its quest to provide culturally competent services to an increasingly large numerical population group in the United States.     

Paradigm lost: Reinvigorating the study of organizational culture

In spite of the importance of organizational culture, scholarly advances in our understanding of the construct appear to have stagnated. We review the state of culture research and argue that the ongoing academic debates about what culture is and how to study it have resulted in a lack of unity and precision in defining and measuring culture. This ambiguity has constrained progress in both developing a coherent theory of organizational culture and accreting replicable and valid findings. To make progress we argue that future research should focus on conceptualizing and assessing organizational culture as the norms that characterize a group or organization that if widely shared and strongly held, act as a social control system to shape members’ attitudes and behaviors. We further argue that to accomplish this, researchers need to recognize that norms can be parsed into three distinct dimensions: (1) the content or what is deemed important (e.g., teamwork, accountability, innovation), (2) the consensus or how widely shared norms are held across people, and (3) the intensity of feelings about the importance of the norm (e.g., are people willing to sanction others). From this perspective we suggest how future research might be able to clarify some of the current conflicts and confusion that characterize the current state of the field.