Socializing Preadolescents into the Group Culture

Purpose Accounting research has struggled with how ethnicity is to be understood in relation to concepts such as nation and nationality and how ethnicity may impact on accounting and auditing practices, behaviours, education and professional values. These themes are explored and developed in the papers presented in this special issue. In particular, the purpose of this paper is to explore the contrasting theoretical and methodological approaches reflected by the papers in the issue. Design/methodology/approach This is a reflective and analytical paper which explores how notions of ethnicity are conceived and operationalised in accounting research. The authors identified two distinctive analytic ordering processes evident within this AAAJ Special issue: Mary Douglas’ scheme of Grid and Group and the Pierre Bourdieu’s conceptual tools of field, capital and habitus. Findings The “Grid and Group” Culture Theory with Bourdieu’s theoretical tools evident in the papers provide powerful tools to explore the relationship between ethnicity and accounting both conceptually and empirically, suggesting that ethnicity can be deployed to reveal and challenge institutionalised racism. This paper highlights the potential to integrate elements of the “Grid and Group” Culture Theory and Bourdieu’s theoretical tools. The issue of ethnicity and the relationship between ethnicity and accounting should be more fruitfully explored in future. Research limitations/implications The authors acknowledge the challenges and limitations of discussing the issue of ethnicity from any particular cultural perspective and recognise the implicit dominance of White Anglo centric perspectives within accounting research. Originality/value The papers presented in the special issue illustrate that the issue of ethnicity is complex and difficult to operationalise. This paper highlights the potential to move beyond the ad hoc application of theoretical and methodological concepts to operationalise coherent concepts which challenge and extend the authors’ understanding of accounting as a social and contextual practice. But to achieve this it is necessary to more clearly integrate theory, methodology, method and critique.

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Social Welfare Organization's Group Culture on Organizational Citizenship Behavior(OCB) of Employees: Focusing on the Mediating Effect of Affective Organizational Commitment & Job Satisfaction

Health and Social Welfare Review ◽

10.15709/hswr.2011.31.4.154 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 31 (4) ◽

pp. 154-192 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

이주호

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Organizational Commitment ◽

Social Welfare ◽

Organizational Citizenship ◽

Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

Citizenship Behavior ◽

Affective Organizational Commitment ◽

Group Culture

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Toward a broader understanding of social talk in Web-based courses

Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Discourse Communication Studies ◽

10.1515/text-2012-0017 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Linda Reneland-Forsman

Keyword(s):

Computer Mediated Communication ◽

School Teachers ◽

Mediated Communication ◽

Group Culture ◽

Web Based ◽

Web Based Learning ◽

Computer Mediated ◽

Mediated Discourse ◽

Narrative Format ◽

Normative Status

AbstractThe interactive potential of computer-mediated communication has proved more difficult to realize than expected. This study tries to break away from the normative status of speech underlining computer-mediated communication by asking how social talk is manifested in Web-based learning environments. The asynchronous communication of 55 students during a study period of 18 weeks was examined using mediated discourse analysis. The students were training as pre-school teachers in a four-year program. Their ability to create a group culture seemed significant for how they developed group autonomy and were able to handle unexpected incidents or a loose framing. The communication between the students was in narrative format and was lengthy in character; trust and confidence were dropped off as part of a constant construction of group culture. These students did not adopt or develop known means of compensating for the loss of nonverbal clues. There were indications of sharing private concerns and information from other practices in life as a conditional aspect of participation. When having troubles to cope, it was the youngest students who failed.

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Feminine Habitus

The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism ◽

10.18574/nyu/9780814772591.003.0006 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Kelly H. Chong

Keyword(s):

Middle Class ◽

South Korea ◽

Small Group ◽

Sense Of Self ◽

Spiritual Practices ◽

Group Culture ◽

Women’S Experiences ◽

Evangelical Churches ◽

Women's Experiences ◽

Cell Groups

This chapter explores middle-class women's experiences and encounters with evangelicalism and patriarchy in South Korea, which is renowned for the phenomenal success of its evangelical churches. It focuses on a female, small-group culture to study the ways women become constituted as new feminine subjects through the development of a novel evangelical habitus—one that is constituted by new dispositions, both embodied and linguistic, and is developed through ritualized rhetorical, bodily, and spiritual practices. Through participation in cell groups, the chapter reveals how women sought healing for experiences of “intense domestic suffering,” notably when attempts at other solutions failed, such as psychotherapy or shamanistic intervention. Yet in spite of the empowered sense of self that many achieved through these therapeutic, charismatically oriented communities, women were still resubjugated to the structures of social and religious patriarchy.

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Protection: Coping with and Remaking Disruptive Environments

Patchwork Leviathan ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691197364.003.0004 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 84-103

Author(s):

Erin Metz McDonnell

Keyword(s):

Small Group ◽

Work Group ◽

Coping Mechanisms ◽

Organizational Strategies ◽

Organizational Responses ◽

Group Culture ◽

Environmental Challenges ◽

Organizational Goals ◽

Considerable Work ◽

Prior Experiences

This chapter argues that interstitial niches face ample environmental challenges and therefore engage in considerable work to protect themselves. Even when niches concentrate distinctive staff whose prior experiences are well-aligned with the organizational goals, and whose knowledge of, and commitment to, bureaucratic comportment have been strengthened by participation within the small-group culture, niches still operate in environments that are tremendously inhospitable to their aims, offering both unintentional disruptions and active interference. This chapter analyzes the organizational strategies that niches employ to ensure that their ability to regularly and effectively accomplish their organizational goals is not negatively affected by their environment. Organizational responses include internal coping mechanisms and external projects of reshaping. Internal coping mechanisms are ways in which the highly effective niches modify processes and practices within their work group to mitigate vulnerabilities to outside interference.

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