Social construction and the diffusion of anti‐trafficking laws in the U.S.

A great deal of research has argued for authenticity as a key firm-level attribute and source of competitive advantage. But we know very little about the boundary conditions related to organizational authenticity. In order to address this, we develop a theory of the social construction of authenticity, how it affects the appeal of a producer’s offerings, and how the market success of these offerings affects the returns to authenticity. We propose that there are two mechanisms, in addition to authenticity, that can drive audience appeal: popularity and iconicity. But increases in both popularity and iconicity also challenge some of the underlying tenets of what the audience considers authentic, namely, intrinsic motivation and the pursuit of social, rather than economic, value. The authenticity paradox, then, is that even as the appeal of authentic offerings increases, their popularity and iconicity diminish the returns to authenticity. We find support for these ideas in the context of the U.S. market for craft beer and discuss the implications of our theory for authenticity research and for the broader market and social dynamics in craft industries.

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HOWWAS RACE CONSTRUCTED IN THE NEW SOUTH?

Du Bois Review Social Science Research on Race ◽

10.1017/s1742058x08080053 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 49-67 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Marek D. Steedman

Keyword(s):

Social Construction ◽

Social Order ◽

Sharp Increase ◽

New South ◽

Turn Of The Century ◽

Human Biology ◽

Socially Constructed ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

Historical Accounts ◽

The U.S

AbstractThis article focuses on the construction and reconfiguration of race in the U.S. South during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Much literature on race is designed to show that race is socially constructed, with the inference that race ismerelya social construction. Thus, talk about race, which is not demonstrably grounded in human biology, must be akin to talk about unicorns. But so what? Does race being a social construction make any difference to the historical accounts we give of how racial practices work? This article suggests that it can if we focus on the process of construction itself, in a particular time and place, and askhowrace was socially constructed. I trace how race was made, unmade, and remade in the years between 1865 and 1920. During the postemancipation era, Southern White elites constructed race as and through naturalized relations of dependence and independence. This construction was held in place and then undermined by the prevailing social order. I offer an account of the sharp increase in racist practices at the turn of the century, focused on the notion ofmobility. I show how, in the decades since the war, mobility undermined race as it had been socially constructed.

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Guns don’t kill people…: good guys and the legitimization of gun violence

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications ◽

10.1057/s41599-020-00673-x ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Angela Stroud

Keyword(s):

Social Construction ◽

Gun Violence ◽

Critical Examination ◽

The Social ◽

Concealed Carry ◽

Legitimate Violence ◽

The U.S

AbstractBuilding on literatures that examine why firearms are appealing and to whom and employing Weber’s concept of “legitimate violence”, this paper utilizes an online concealed carry forum to critically analyze how firearm proliferation is rationalized in the U.S. The analysis focuses on three specific examples of violence—the Parkland, Florida, and Philando Castile shootings, and stories of children who find guns and shoot themselves and/or others. This work is a critical examination of the social construction of “legitimate violence” that deconstructs the discourses embedded in the “pro-gun” notion that the answer to gun violence is more guns.

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The Reporting of Grief by One Newspaper of Record for the U.S.: The New York Times

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying ◽

10.2190/om.57.3.c ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 57 (3) ◽

pp. 261-278 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Laurel Hilliker

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Mass Media ◽

Social Construction ◽

Social Problem ◽

Exploratory Study ◽

New York Times ◽

Sick Role ◽

The New York Times ◽

The Mass Media ◽

The U.S

One source people can rely on for clues on how to grieve a loss is through accounts of such experiences reported in the mass media. This research examines how grief has been reported at one newspaper of record for the U.S.: The New York Times. Using theories of social construction and the sick role, this exploratory study attempts to observe whether grieving is portrayed by media as a social problem, particularly as a health or medical issue which can be treated and cured, and also discusses those who are not identified in the mourner role in newspaper reports.

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When finance met security: Back to the War on Drugs and the problem of dirty money

Finance and Society ◽

10.2218/finsoc.v3i2.2572 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 106-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Anthony Amicelle

Keyword(s):

Social Construction ◽

Money Laundering ◽

War On Drugs ◽

Public Concern ◽

Social Spaces ◽

The Social ◽

Zero Sum ◽

The U.S

When and how did the laundering of ‘dirty’ money become an object of public concern, debate, and ultimately policy at the intersection of finance and security? This article sheds light on the social construction of money laundering as a public problem in the context of the U.S. War on Drugs during the 1970s and 1980s. By doing so, the article also stresses the heuristic value of questioning the finance-security nexus through an analytics of public problems. Its aims are to: (1) avoid interdisciplinary debates around the finance-security nexus becoming trapped in a zero-sum game between the ‘securitization of finance’ and the ‘financialization of security’; and (2) understand better the emergence, re-configuration, and internal tensions of social spaces at the interface of finance and security.

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Race, Skin Color and Genetic Ancestry

Californian Journal of Health Promotion ◽

10.32398/cjhp.v5isi.1195 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 5 (SI) ◽

pp. 9-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Rick A. Kittles ◽

Eunice R. Santos ◽

Nefertiti S. Oji-Njideka ◽

Carolina Bonilla

Keyword(s):

Social Construction ◽

Skin Color ◽

Hispanic Americans ◽

Genetic Research ◽

Group Differences ◽

Racial Boundaries ◽

The Public ◽

Communities Of Color ◽

Human Genetic Research ◽

The U.S

Defining race continues to be a nemesis. Knowledge from human genetic research continuously challenges the notion that race and biology are inextricably linked, with implications across biomedical and public health disciplines. While it has become fashionable for scientists to declare that race is merely a social construction, there is little practical value to this belief since few in the public believe and act on it. In the U.S., race has largely been based on skin color and ancestry, both of which exhibit large variances within communities of color. Yet biomedical studies continue to examine black / white group differences in health. Here we discuss why using race in biomedical studies is problematic using examples from two U.S. groups (African and Hispanic Americans) which transcend ‘racial’ boundaries and bear the burden of health disparities.

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Children's Gender and Parents' Color Preferences

10.31235/osf.io/6ng9p ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Philip N. Cohen

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Social Construction ◽

Social Environment ◽

Online Survey ◽

Natural Experiment ◽

Color Preferences ◽

Child Socialization ◽

The Social ◽

Adults And Children ◽

The U.S

Gender differences in color preferences have been found in adults and children, but they remain unexplained. This study asks whether the gendered social environment in adulthood affects parents’ color preferences. The analysis used the gender of children to represent one aspect of the gendered social environment. Because having male versus female children in the U.S. is generally randomly distributed, it provides something of a natural experiment, offering evidence about the social construction of gender in adulthood. The participants were 749 adults with children who responded to an online survey invitation, asking “What’s your favorite color?” Men were more likely to prefer blue, while women were more likely to prefer red, purple, and pink, consistent with long-standing U.S. patterns. The effect of having only sons was to widen the existing gender differences between men and women, increasing the odds that men prefer blue while reducing the odds that women do; and a marginally significant effect showed women having higher odds of preferring pink when they have sons only. The results suggest that, in addition to any genetic, biological or child-socialization effects shaping adults’ tendency to segregate their color preferences by gender, the gender context of adulthood matters as well.

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The Child is 'Father' to the Manager: Images of Organizations in U.S. Children's Literature

Organization Studies ◽

10.1177/017084069201300401 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 497-519 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Virginia Hill Ingersoll ◽

Guy B. Adams

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Children's Literature ◽

Social Construction ◽

National Culture ◽

Children’S Literature ◽

The United States ◽

Organizational Life ◽

Socially Constructed ◽

Technical Rationality ◽

The U.S

A person's approach to organizational life is grounded in an elaborate and largely unarticulated meaning map, which provides tools for analysing situations, beliefs about how things ought to be done and rationales for those beliefs. This meaning map is socially constructed. We argue in this article that children's literature is a part of this process of social construction, and that these stories in the United States are reflective of one of the dominant strands of the U.S. national culture, namely, technical rationality. We analyse thematically a set of twenty-nine chil dren's stories, and discuss the repeating themes which emerged from that analysis. The implications for the study of organizations are discussed.

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