A cultural theory and model of power relations

Favre, Maroussia; Swedlow, Brendon; Verweij, Marco

doi:10.1080/2158379x.2019.1624060

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“…Thus, "What this world needs is a 'fairness revolution' to make the distribution of goods equal" should appeal solely to egalitarians while "What this world needs is a 'fairness revolution' to make the distribution of goods more equal" might appeal to both egalitarians and inclusive hierarchists and consequently does not have good face validity (emphasis added). Moreover, an inclusive hierarchist might even agree with the first item if equality in the distribution of goods did not threaten power differences (Favre, Swedlow, and Verweij, 2019), so it is very difficult to design items that cleanly measure egalitarian relations or preferences for them. • Items that measure one concept with good face validity and one or more CT concepts with poor face validity and/or introduce non-CT concepts.…”

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“…At its core, CT is a theory specifying the relational patterns and pressures that influence how and what people think. In other words, CT is a theory specifying social structures and their accompanying thought styles, ideas, and ideologies—a theory specifying institutional types and the types of attitudes that go with them (6, 2014; Favre, Swedlow, and Verweij, 2019; Hood, 1998).…”

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Construct Validity of Cultural Theory Survey Measures

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Ripberger

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Social Science Quarterly

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Objective. Cultural Theory (CT) has attracted significant attention across the social sciences and is increasingly being used in survey research. We assess the construct validity of three CT survey operationalizations to help interpret and improve these measures. Methods. A coding protocol for face and content validity of survey items was developed with input from several CT scholars and applied independently by two of authors of this article. Convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of these items were assessed using survey data. Results. We find that these measures generally lack face and content validity but have reasonably good convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity. Conclusion. While these measures can continue to be used to predict attitudes and behaviors that CT hypothesizes will vary with culture, scholars interested in testing CT's basic claims in survey research should seek to improve their face and content validity, which will also allow better tests of convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity. Cultural Theory (CT) is an ambitious general social and political theory that has attracted significant attention across the social sciences (see, e.g., the 55-page bibliography in Wildavsky, 2006; journal symposia introduced in 6 and Swedlow, 2016; Swedlow, 2011, 2014; and contributions to risk analysis reviewed in Johnson and Swedlow, 2019a). A significant portion of this research is based on surveys. This article seeks to assess the construct validity of several survey operationalizations in order to provide guidance to scholars relying on this work as well as to those wishing to operationalize CT in surveys. For social scientists studying public opinion and such topics as political culture, the culture wars, ideology, value structure, mass belief systems, partisanship, political sophistication, political participation, policy preferences, risk perceptions, and many other subjects, CT provides rich theoretical resources. Its operationalization in survey research provides fresh insights and often greater explanatory and predictive power than alternative theories and concepts, including left-right ideology and partisanship (see, e.g.

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Section: Summary Discussion and Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: What Is Cultural Theory? and How Has It Been Operationalizedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Construct Validity of Cultural Theory Survey Measures

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Liu

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“…Still others are concerned with state (polity) and political power. The approaches which try to combine them with political culture theory reveal various problems, most of them addressing the methodological issues: state formation and state dynamics (Steinmetz 1999;Tilly 1999), state performance in terms of governance and/or political regime (Marsh 2011, Rhodes and Bevir 2010), political power (Favre et al 2019).…”

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Political culture research: dilemmas and trends. Prologue to the special issue

Voinea

2019

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The democratization waves in central and Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa touch at the very core of many of our most basic questions about the nature of citizen politics and the working of the political process. […] The current democratization wave thus provides a virtually unique opportunity to address questions on identity formation, the creation of political cultures (and possibly how cultural inheritances are changed), the establishment of an initial calculus of voting, and the dynamic processes linking political norms and behavior. These questions represent some of the fundamental research issues of our time. The answers will not only explain what has occurred during this democratization wave, but may aid us in better understanding the basic principles of how citizens function within the political process. There has never been a richer opportunity to study the choices of citizens across regime forms and between old and new democracies. The conditions to arrive at a theory of how citizens come to political choices depending on different political settings, and how these choices affect the settings has never been better than today.

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“…Second, the “compatibility proposition” (Thompson et al, 1990 , p. 2) states that the four cultures shape the specific values/beliefs and behaviors of individuals in social contexts such as organizations to maintain the viability of the system. However, as applied by him in his seminal Cities of the Prairie (1970) and subsequent work, Elazar's conception of political culture is considered as affiliations to religious groups or as intertwined with individual interest and social-economic status, rather than originating in social and political relations, which are the core of power relations, a central concept in political science (McClurg and Young, 2011 , p. 39; Favre et al, 2019 ). CT conceptualizes and derives the political cultures of egalitarianism, hierarchy, individualism, and fatalism from the two dimensions of social and political relations.…”

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How the Perception of Public Official on Organizational Culture Influences Procedural Justice in Environmental Policy Processes

Yuan

2021

Front. Psychol.

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How does the organizational culture of local governments influence the type and extent of procedural justice in environmental policy processes? Using the culture theory developed by Mary Douglas and others, this research seeks to bring a new conception and new measures of organizational culture to the study of policy making by local governments. To contribute to the development of the conceptualization and measurement of procedural justice in the environmental policy processes of those governments, item response theory (IRT) graded response model (GRM) is used to show variations in difficulties and frequencies of adopting distinctive public participation strategies for improving procedural justice across local governments. In this study, original survey data is collected from Illinois municipalities and a finding is suggestive of cultural variables explaining the two dimensions of procedural justice, equal and authentic public participation, while other variables can, at best, explain only the equal public participation. Furthermore, as hypothesized, egalitarianism increases both equal and authentic public participation, individualism increases equal public participation, and fatalism decreases both.

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A cultural theory and model of power relations

Cited by 21 publications

References 88 publications

Construct Validity of Cultural Theory Survey Measures

Construct Validity of Cultural Theory Survey Measures

Political culture research: dilemmas and trends. Prologue to the special issue

How the Perception of Public Official on Organizational Culture Influences Procedural Justice in Environmental Policy Processes

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