Implications of Honor and Dignity Culture for Negotiations: A Comparative Study of Middle Easterners and Americans

Aslani, Soroush; Brett, Jeanne M.; Ramirez‐Marin, Jimena Y.; Tinsley, Catherine H.; Weingart, Laurie R.

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“…Outsiders who enter such settings might misunderstand the local standards of provocation to their own detriment, while insiders who seek success in mainstream society might find their reaction to slights viewed as a sign of immaturity and low self-control. 15 Interactions between honor-oriented Middle Easterners and dignity-oriented Westerners often run afoul of these differences as well (Aslani et al 2011). At universities and many other environments within modern America and, increasingly, other Western nations, the clash between dignity and victimhood engenders a similar kind of moral confusion: One person's standard provokes another's grievance, acts of social control themselves are treated as deviant, and unintentional offenses abound.…”

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Microaggression and Moral Cultures

2014

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Campus activists and others might refer to slights of one's ethnicity or other cultural characteristics as "microaggressions," and they m ight use various forums to publicize them . Here we exam ine this phenom enon by drawing from Donald Black's theories of conflict and from cross-cultural studies of conflict and morality. We argue th a t this behavior resembles other conflict tactics in w hich the aggrieved actively seek the sup port of third parties as well as those th a t focus on oppression. We identify the social conditions associated w ith each feature, and w e discuss how the rise of these condi tions has led to large-scale m oral change such as the em ergence of a victimhood culture th a t is distinct from th e honor cultures and dignity cultures of the past. Keywords microaggression -social control -morality -honor -dignity -victim hood * Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning contributed equally. They wish to thank Donald Black and Joseph Michalski for comments on an earlier version. COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY 13 (2014) 6 92-726

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confidence: 99%