Countering Cultural Matching? Class and the Cultural Styles Applicants Present to Gatekeepers

Cultural matching theory holds that class reproduction occurs when individuals from different class origins present different cultural styles to gatekeepers, who in turn select advantaged individuals based upon their styles. This theory also suggests that class reproduction will be disrupted if individuals from different origins present gatekeepers with the same styles. We investigate whether this is possible by examining a case in which similarities are particularly likely to occur: a situation in which public instructions give applicants from each class common information about what styles gatekeepers reward, gatekeepers select among applicants from each class who share access to similar styles, and applicants are likely to use the same styles as they are given time to strategize and need only present each style superficially. Drawing upon a content analysis of over 1,000 randomly selected applications that were written under these conditions, we find that individuals from different class origins present several similar styles but that differences remain. We conclude that the simultaneous presence of these conditions is unlikely to block class reproduction by erasing cultural differences.

ARCHITECTURAL COPIES AND IMITATIONS OF HISTORICAL CULTURAL STYLES IN TOURISM INDUSTRY

The paper considers factors of increased popularity of making replications of architectural objects found world-known monuments of historical and cultural heritage that attract constant tourists' interest. In witness of their views, the authors point out on many cases in Russian and foreign practices when copies of erected constructions gained international fame in varying degrees of accuracy embody bright features of architectural traditions of one or another culture, its compositional methods, artistic styles and motifs. Also, the paper briefly describes major tendencies of copying architectural examples of traditional cultures within the frames of infrastructural development of Russian touristic sites, discloses key arguments of supporters and opponents of this trend line in the touristic sector.

One Mind, Heart, and Spirit

This chapter presents the reductionist traps in applying psychosocial theory to political and social analysis whenever the analytical concept of “mass mind” is applied in the context of political history to explain intersectarian violence. It thus outlines the methodological risks in efforts to dehistoricize explanations of collective behavior on the basis of presumed immutable psychosocial forces that “psychologize” violent behaviors by conflating macro-, meso-, and microlevels of analysis. This chapter emphasizes the methodological fallacies attached to levels of analysis by indicating the risks entailed in psychologizing groups and sociologizing individuals. Analysis also indicates the importance of examining collective violence through methods of interpretation that include the psychodynamics of reification, “theft-enjoyment,” and cultural styles of the macabresque.

Gaitas, panderos y tambores. La nueva música gallega y una identidad glocalizada / Bagpipes, tambourines and drums. New Galician Music and a Glocalized Identity

Resumen: La música gallega ha jugado un papel importante en la interpretación de la identidad gallega. En las últimas décadas, los nuevos movimientos musicales y algunas propuestas de relectura del floklore gallego en relación con otras tradiciones musicales ha abierto las puertas a una redifinición de la ‘galleguidad’ desde una perspectiva glocalizada, que incorpora tanto elementos tradicionalmente asociados a lo gallego como dispositivos y estilos propios de otras tradiciones.Palabras clave: Identidad, Galicia, Música, Glocalización.Abstract: Galician music has played an important role in the interpretation of Galician identity. In the last decades, the new musical movements and some proposals of rereading of the Galician floklore in relation to other musical traditions have opened the doors to a redefinition of the ‘Galleguidad’ from a glocalizated perspective, that incorporates both elements traditionally associated to the Galician indentity and some other cultural styles and traditions. Key words: Identity, Galicia, Music, Clocalization.

Registro De Bienes Culturales Muebles Para El Análisis Arqueológico De Grupos Sociales Precolombinos. Estudio De Caso: Puñay, Cantón Chunchi, Provincia De Chimborazo, Ecuador

The aim of this study is to present the results of the identification of the cultural styles, social occupations, and cultural affiliates of archaeological sites such as Paccha, Piñancay, Puñay, and Joyaczhi that conforms to the archaeological area, Puñay. The objective of this study is to keep an archaeological record of the movable cultural property of tourist sites. This is done through the cataloging and characterization of movable property. In cataloging, the records of the archaeological assets of the INPC are applied. Also, in characterization, the methodology was considered as the Crockery for the determination of the Ceramic Cultural styles and the color of the external and internal pulp. In addition, the core of the Munsell tables was considered. The research allows the identification of 10 ceramic cultural styles in Paccha, 8 in Piñancay, 10 in Puñay sector, and 3 in Joyaczhi through typology and decorative techniques. Also, they are visualized chronologies which are related to the social contexts in which these archeological properties are materialized. The ceramic styles established for the archaeological area belongs to the Integration Period of the pre-Columbian culture Cañari 800- 1530d.C.