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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
Maurice Freedman,Fredrik Barth +1 more
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Gatekeeping and the Melting Pot: Interaction in Counseling Encounters
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the relationship of social identity, cultural communication style and the gatekeeping process between junior college counselors and students and found that the more alike counselors and their students were in terms of social identities and communication style, the more smoothly the counseling interaction would proceed and the more special help counselors were likely to give students.
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Rousseau’s Whale Hunt?
Michael Alvard,David A. Nolin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present data from the village of Lamalera, Indonesia, where the economy revolves around traditional subsistence sperm-whale hunting, that indicate a situation consistent with a coordination game.
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Culture, Power, and Experience: Toward a Person-Centered Cultural Psychology
TL;DR: The authors argue that culture can falsely fix the boundaries between groups in an absolute and artificial way, and that it can be used to identify fundamentally different, essentialized, and homogeneous social units.
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It’s the Local Economy, Stupid! Geographic Wealth Dispersion and Conflict Outbreak Location:
Halvard Buhaug,Kristian Skrede Gleditsch,Helge Holtermann,Gudrun Østby,Andreas Forø Tollefsen +4 more
TL;DR: Income varies considerably within countries and the locations where conflicts emerge are rarely typical or representative for states at large as discussed by the authors. Yet, most research on conflict has only examined natio...