Producing Culture and Capital

Yanagisako, Sylvia

doi:10.1515/9780691214221

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“…Second, there is a vast body of empirical data depicting considerable behavioural variation within countries (see e.g. Camelo et al, 2004;Crouch, 2005;Goold and Campbell, 1987;Kondo, 1990;Law and Mol, 1994;Lenartowicz et al, 2003;O'Sullivan, 2000;Streek and Thelen, 2005;Thompson and Phua, 2005;Tsurumi, 1988;Weiss and Delbecq, 1987;Yanagisako, 2002). Homicide rates, for instance, vary not only between countries (and over time), but they also differ immensely across locations, socioeconomic, gender, and ethnic groups (Gaines and Kappeler, 2003;McSweeney et al, 2010;Nisbett and Cohen, 1996).…”

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Fashion founded on a flaw

McSweeney

2013

International Marketing Review

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -To comment on Brewer and Venaik's review of the misapplication of the national culture dimensions of Hofstede and GLOBE at the individual and other sub-national levels. This paper supports and extends their critique. Design/methodology/approach -The implausibility of deterministic claims about the multi-level power of national culture is described and discussed by drawing on a wide range of disciplines (including anthropology, geography, sociology, and historiography). Findings -Descriptions of the characteristics and origins of sub-national level behaviour based on a priori depictions of national culture values are invalid and misleading. Practical implications -There are important implications for practitioners. The paper highlights the unsoundness of descriptions of the sub-national (individuals, consumer segments, organizations, and so forth) which are derived from national-level depictions of culture and the dangers of ignoring the independent causal influence of non-national culture and non-cultural factors. Originality/value -The ecological fallacy in the national culture literature is located within a wider and long-standing critique of that fallacy. The paper is the first to show that the fallacy in the national culture literature is often an extreme causal version. It not merely supposes cross-level equivalence, as in the standard version, but more aggressively, it attributes deterministic power to national culture thus excluding other independent influences and agency.

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Section: Fashion Founded On a Flawmentioning

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Fashion founded on a flaw

McSweeney

2013

International Marketing Review

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“…Indeed, the successful transmission of wealth, which we know to be among the top priorities of billionaires and ultra-high net worth individuals, is not an easy, risk-free process [16]. It involves substantial investment in terms of emotional management and affective labour, usually carried out by the women of the family, as well as the hired wealth managers [17].…”

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Why Philanthropy is No Substitute for Taxation: A Case Study of Plutocratic Philanthropy in the UK

Glucksberg

Russell-Prywata

2022

LSE Public Policy Review

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This paper investigates the role of elite philanthropy in the context of rising global inequality, asking whether large-scale philanthropic donations by elites are well placed to help tackle structural inequality. The challenges posed by such 'plutocratic philanthropy' are explored through analysis of a network of the top 30 philanthropists in the United Kingdom and their connections to businesses and foundations, which shows their financial scale and connectivity. This new data is contextualised within the most recent social science literature on elites, which focuses on elite reproduction, how wealthy families perceive inequality, as well as how and why they engage in philanthropic activities. From this data, the paper develops an analysis of the current landscape of inequality, arguing that elite philanthropy as an ecosystem -made up of capital, people and institutions -is not well placed to systemically challenge inequalities, because the financial size of elites' philanthropy tends to be dwarfed by their business activities, and the social functions of philanthropy help maintain the advantaged positions of elites. The paper concludes with informed policy considerations on the role of elite philanthropy in light of the results of the analysis.JEL code: Z1.

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“…Rather than suggest that morality is interjected into economics, I build on a third body of scholarship that examines capitalism as a moral economy, drawing on historians of 17th and 18th centuries mercantile capitalism, J.G.A. Pocock (1985) and Albert O. Hirschman (1997) (Browne and Milgram, 2009; Ho, 2012; Maurer, 2005, 2009, 2013; Yanagisako, 2002). Hirschman showed that early capitalism was characterized as le doux commerce (or a ‘gentle commerce’), as philosophers theorized the economy as helping drive economic actors’ sense of comportment and gentile mannerisms.…”

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Selling diversity to white men: How disentangling economics from morality is a racial and gendered performance

Arciniega

2020

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Diversity professionals include business scholars, management consultants, diversity officers, and human resource professionals, who claim that the business case is about economics, not about morality or social justice. Drawing on 2 years of ethnographic research, this paper finds that diversity professionals sell diversity to white men—literally to obtain new clients and, metaphorically, to gain supporters for their practices—by performing economic rationality. In examining the intersection of economics and morality through the business case, this article argues that economic rationality itself is a racial and gendered performance. Moreover, insofar as diversity is a managerial discourse that employs ideas and models of the economy to design organizational techniques that improve business, it claims that through the business case, diversity professionals perform the economy itself. Thus, this research unsettles pervasive scholarly and popular assumptions that capitalism is intrinsically amoral. Finally, it characterizes organizational practices wherein diversity professionals perform economics as amoral and unracial as white economics. White economics, in other words, reproduces the everyday operation of neoliberal organizations as purportedly amoral, and hence, unracial and ungendered.

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Producing Culture and Capital

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Fashion founded on a flaw

Why Philanthropy is No Substitute for Taxation: A Case Study of Plutocratic Philanthropy in the UK

Selling diversity to white men: How disentangling economics from morality is a racial and gendered performance

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