Lay Definitions of Cultural Appropriation in U.S. Community and College Student Samples

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 580-598
Author(s):  
Iva Katzarska-Miller ◽  
Ford Faucher ◽  
Lilly Kramer ◽  
Stephen Reysen
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
College Student ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Political Correctness ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Cultural Appropriation ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Canonical Correlations

In three studies we examined lay definitions of cultural appropriation in U.S. community and college student samples. In a fourth study we examined correlates of perceptions of cultural appropriation. Using community and undergraduate student samples (Studies 1-2), and popular media articles (Study 3) we examined definitions of cultural appropriation following Rogers’ (2006) typology of cultural exchange, dominance, and subordination. The results across three studies revealed that cultural appropriation was defined predominantly as cultural exploitation. In Study 4 we examined political correctness (emotion and activism), social justice, empathy (perspective taking and empathic concern), and political orientation as correlates of cultural appropriation perceptions. Using canonical correlations, we found that cultural exploitation was the primary contributor to the synthetic predictor, and political orientation, emotion political correctness, activism political correctness, and social justice made significant contributions to the criterion variable, but not empathy. Implication and further research directions are discussed.

A Factor Analytic Model of College Studen Development

NASPA Journal ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Lavelle ◽  
Bill Rickford
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Student ◽  
Student Development ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
College Student Development ◽  
Analytic Model ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Factor Analytic Model ◽  
Factor Analytic ◽  
Self Discovery

Models of college student development have demonstrated an insensitivity to the differences that exist among various students, although such differences are very important in a world where student bodies in higher education are increasingly diverse. The authors present a model based on The Dakota Inventory of Student Orientations, which may be useful for program developmen that fosters reflection, self discovery, perspective-taking, and collaboration among students with varying orientations towards learning.

Job Apathy

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 484-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon B. Schmidt ◽  
Guihyun Park ◽  
Jessica Keeney ◽  
Sonia Ghumman
Keyword(s):  
Employee Engagement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Incremental Validity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Personal Initiative ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Practical Implications

Work anecdotes and popular media programs such as Office Space, The Office, and Dilbert suggest that there are a number of workers in the United States who feel a sense of apathy toward their workplace and their job. This article develops these ideas theoretically and provides validity evidence for a scale of job apathy across two studies. Job apathy is defined as a type of selective apathy characterized by diminished motivation and affect toward one’s job. A scale of job apathy was developed and data from a sample of currently or recently employed college students supported two dimensions: apathetic action and apathetic thought. Job apathy was found to be empirically distinct from clinical apathy, negative affectivity, cynicism, and employee engagement. Job apathy was also found to have incremental validity in the prediction of personal initiative, withdrawal, and organizational deviance. Practical implications and future research directions for job apathy are discussed.

Embodying justice: Situating college student articulations of social justice in critical consciousness

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-68
Author(s):  
Alexander Harris Jones
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
College Student ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
Affective Domain ◽  
Christian College ◽  
Adverse Impact ◽  
Consciousness Development

Many American evangelical college students today enter into college with a new awareness of justice-related issues. However, situating student commitments to justice in a larger discourse on critical-consciousness development is necessary for educators to assist students in their justice development. This article reviews the literature on critical-consciousness development and places it in conversation with Deleuzian affect theory, suggesting that extant theory does not take into account the affective domain of critical-consciousness growth. This article also demonstrates common ways Christian college students might portray themselves as critically aware through distinctly Christian tropes that express their passion for and commitment to justice. These tropes, which commonly include human trafficking, diverse friend groups, and being globally-minded, actually have an adverse impact on social justice. By better understanding these tropes as masquerading critical consciousness and by understanding how students become critically aware through affect theory, educators and mentors can more adequately guide students in their attempts to seek justice.

scholarly journals White, College-Student, Social-Justice Ally Experiences

OALib ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 08 (07) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Jon Cleveland ◽  
Sharon K. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
College Student ◽  
White College

scholarly journals Creating transnational, intercultural arts’ interactions: African diasporic dialogues

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-51
Author(s):  
Alix Pierre
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Cultural Arts ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Freirean Pedagogy ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Arts Community

Painted with broad as well as, highly nuanced brush strokes, this is a comprehensive essay. Initially, it traces and later weaves within the larger discussion, the influences of Marcus Garvey’s philosophy and his lasting contributions to Africans in the diaspora. As importantly, the essay highlights the exceptional works of two Jamaican-born artists who reside in the USA. Thirdly, the essay explores some of the Miami-based Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator’s, (DVCAI’s) intercultural exchanges, in which artists challenge dominant Western perspectives. Fourthly, the essay summarizes key aspects of DVCAI’s international cultural exchange in Jamaica. The recent, transcultural arts’ exchanges exemplify, reciprocal dialogues between the DVCAI’s representatives and the Jamaican arts community, specifically, with artists who adopt a Freirean pedagogy and focus on significant social justice issues in a postcolonial country.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Suzanne Scott
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Political Correctness ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Fan Studies ◽  
Fan Culture ◽  
Convergence Culture

This introduction briefly introduces the book’s topic and historical scope and establishes “the convergence culture industry” as an analytical framework. This portmanteau of Henry Jenkins’s “convergence culture” and Adorno and Horkheimer’s “the culture industry” is positioned as a polemic, but nonetheless one that can help us understand the gendered mainstreaming of fan culture and attempts to standardize fan identities and practices in the digital age. As the title of the introduction suggests, it also situates this moment within fan and geek culture (and the privilege of white, straight, cis-gendered men in it) within a broader array of antifeminist pushbacks against “political correctness” and “social justice warriors.” Accordingly, the introduction concludes with a consideration of whether systemic attempts to remarginalize female fans within both fan culture and fan studies might be productively, if allegorically, framed through the GOP’s “War on Women,” emergent “Men’s Rights” and alt-right movements, and nostalgia for a lost status quo.

scholarly journals The Effect of Social Justice Advocacy and Ethical Sensitivity on the Social Entrepreneurial Intention of High School Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Joseph Kim ◽  
Byeonghwa Park
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
High School Students ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Empathic Concern ◽  
Ethical Sensitivity ◽  
School Students ◽  
Social Justice Advocacy

The objective of this study was to assess the effect of ethical sensitivity and social justice advocacy on social entrepreneurial intention, and also, examined the impact of empathic concern and perspective taking on social justice advocacy and ethical sensitivity respectively. Another objective is to assess these relationships using the high school student population. This study collected the data from 201 high school students in the east coast area in the U.S. The students were randomly selected and invited to the survey. Path analysis was used to test the suggested hypotheses. The results indicated that high school students with a high level of social justice advocacy and ethical sensitivity showed stronger social entrepreneurial intention. Also, empathic concern was significantly related to social justice advocacy, while perspective taking was associated considerably with ethical sensitivity. Our study finds that ethical sensitivity and social justice advocacy will foster SE intention among high school students. Unlike adult groups, high schools students are under development of their ethical system and the value and attitude toward social issues. Education or training can play a critical role in high school students' ethical system or attitudes toward social justice. There should be more emphasis on ethics and social justice in the curriculum of high schools.

scholarly journals Legal Languages – A Diachronic Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Matulewska
Keyword(s):  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Political Correctness ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Legal Language ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Communication Problems ◽  
Temporal Factors ◽  
The Law ◽  
Diachronic Changes

Abstract The aim of the article is to discuss the legal language transformations from a diachronic perspective taking into account the following factors: (i) spatial and temporal, (ii) linguistic norm changes, (iii) political, (iv) social (customs), and (v) globalization as well as (vi) EU-induced. Spatial and temporal factors include legal relations influenced by climate and the cycles of nature. Linguistic factors include spelling reforms and grammatical changes each language undergoes, for example, as a result of usage. As far as the law is concerned, normative changes can be observed when laws are amended. Other factors such as customs, usage, etc. cannot be neglected when discussing the language of the law. Analogously political correctness and usage can be observed in gender sensitive language and the introduction of such terms as chairperson instead of chairman. Social factors should not be overlooked. As a result of social changes, numerous terms have been introduced to legal lexicons in many countries starting with same-sex unions or same-sex-marriages. The so-called political correctness enforces some language changes and leads to the introduction of new terms and at the same time the abandonment of others. Consequently, some terms cease to be used and consequently become archaic. The aim of the article is to focus on diachronic changes in legal languages and present the communication problems resulting from them from intra- and inter-lingual perspectives.

scholarly journals The impact of empathy and perspective-taking instructions on proponents and opponents of immigration

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga M. Klimecki ◽  
Matthieu Vétois ◽  
David Sander
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive And Negative Emotions

Abstract In many societies, immigration is a conflictual topic, leading to heated exchanges between proponents and opponents of immigration. Such debates on immigration might benefit from the engagement of the discussants in empathy and perspective taking. Although empathy and perspective-taking exercises can be beneficial in some contexts, previous research shows marked differences in people with a rightist versus a leftist political orientation when it comes to their motivation to engage in empathy. The degree to which this applies to perspective taking and to the context of debates on immigration has not yet been tested. The current study, conducted in Switzerland, tested how proponents or opponents of immigration react to instructions for empathy and perspective taking in debates on immigration. The results reveal that, compared with participants in the control condition who had no instructions, proponents of immigration who received instructions were more motivated or willing to engage in empathy and perspective taking. Furthermore, proponents of immigration showed decreases in their positive and negative emotions under the perspective-taking instructions. Conversely, for opponents of immigration, perspective-taking instructions increased their perception of other’s competitiveness compared with participants in the control condition. Taken together, these results underline the importance of taking an individual’s views on immigration into account when implementing interventions for conflict resolution in immigration-related issues.

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