Cultural Beliefs Underlying Medication Adherence in People of Chinese Descent in the United States

Advances in social movement research conceptualise micromobilisation as – at least – a two-step sequential process in which willingness to participate must first be generated and then translated into actual participation. However, such research often ignores a more fundamental first step in this process: the generation of movement support. I address this gap by drawing on a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States – who either sympathised with or opposed anti-immigration activism – to identify individual attributes differentiating anti-immigration movement supporters and non-supporters. Perceptions of economic threat, waning confidence in political leadership, and prejudicial cultural beliefs about Latinos represent attributes differentiated movement supporters from non-supporters. Power devaluation theory is used as an overarching framework to meaningfully interpret these results. More generally, I argue that grievances play an important, yet under theorised role in jumpstarting conservative micromobilisation and that principles from power devaluation theory can help us understand the differentiation of movement support, irrespective of a social movement's political orientation.

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Global Imaginaries and Global Capital: Lawrence Chua’s Gold by the Inch and Spaces of Global Belonging

MANUSYA ◽

10.1163/26659077-01204005 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 49-69

Author(s):

Christopher Patterson

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Cultural Identity ◽

Sexual Desire ◽

Structural Violence ◽

The United States ◽

Cultural Attitude ◽

Global Capital ◽

Chinese Descent ◽

Bear Witness

The unnamed narrator in Lawrence Chua’s novel Gold by the Inch is multiply queered. He appears to the reader as a gay Thai/Malay migrant of Chinese descent living in the United States. As a traveler, his encounters with episodes of sexual desire lead him to different notions of belonging as his race, class, and sexuality travel with him, marking him as an out sider from one space to another. Likewise, every instance of mobility challenges his identity, allowing him to bear witness to unique forms of structural violence relative to whichever locality he happens to be in. In short, Chua’s narrator is faced with oppressions based on radical assumptions by the outside world that utilize his race, gender, sexuality, and American cultural identity as indicators for an insurmountable cultural attitude.

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Discursive Strategies and Politics of (Neo-)colonialism: A Textual Analysis of Saadat Hassan Manto’s Letters to Uncle Sam

International Journal of English Linguistics ◽

10.5539/ijel.v7n5p8 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (5) ◽

pp. 8

Author(s):

Inayat Ullah ◽

Iman Aib

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Qualitative Analysis ◽

United States Of America ◽

Cultural Beliefs ◽

Literary Work ◽

The United States ◽

Global Market ◽

Independent State ◽

Discursive Strategies ◽

Research Findings

Colonialism has been such a multifaceted and complicated phenomenon that it often juxtaposed the culture of the colonized in simultaneous assimilation of, and resistance to, the culture of the colonizers. Embedded in the theory of Post colonialism, this research aims at carrying out a qualitative analysis of discursive strategies used in Saadat Hassan Manto’s literary work Letters to Uncle Sam from a neo-colonial perspective. It seeks to highlight the issues of globalization and the effects that it engendered upon the then newly-established independent state of Pakistan. The research findings conclude that globalization has resulted in putting an end to the so-called purity of culture. Manto, therefore, explicitly satirizes the super power (read the United States of America) for its hidden agendas of manipulating and exploiting the economic system as well as the cultural beliefs of Pakistan under the mask of prospering nations by building a global market to create a new means of dominance that works through consent.

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Hiring of Personal Ties: A Cultural Consensus Analysis of China and the United States

Management and Organization Review ◽

10.1017/mor.2015.1 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 145-169 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Xiao-xiao Liu ◽

Joshua Keller ◽

Ying-yi Hong

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Cultural Beliefs ◽

The United States ◽

Hiring Decisions ◽

Perceived Fairness ◽

Government Officials ◽

Consensus Analysis ◽

National Differences ◽

Overall Evaluation ◽

Cross National

ABSTRACTAlthough employees react negatively when employers hire individuals with whom the employers have personal ties, the practice is prevalent worldwide. One factor contributing to the discrepancy between reactions to the practice may be differences in cultural beliefs and institutions regarding perceptions about hiring decisions. To examine cross-national differences in perceptions about hiring personal ties, we conducted a consensus analysis on the perceived fairness, profitability, and overall evaluation of hiring decisions in China and the United States. We find cross-national differences in consensus levels as to whether people believe it is fair or unfair to hire moderately qualified candidates with employer ties (kinships or close friends with the employer) and whether people positively or negatively evaluate the hiring of unqualified candidates with stakeholder ties (ties to business associates or government officials). We also find contrasting areas of consensus about whether hiring unqualified candidates with stakeholder ties is profitable. Implications for research on cultural comparisons of perceptions of hiring practices and guanxi are discussed.

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