At the margins: a distinctiveness approach to the social identity and social networks of underrepresented groups

Article Abstract:

Using distinctiveness theory, this research showed that the relative rarity of a group in a social context tended to promote members' use of that group as a basis for shared identity and social interaction. Relative to majority group members, racial minorities and women in a master of business administration cohort were more likely to make identity and friendship choices within-group. The marginalization of racial minorities in the friendship network resulted both from exclusionary pressures and from minority individuals' own preferences for same-race friends. By contrast, the marginalization of women resulted more from exclusionary pressures than from their preferences for woman friends. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Social aspects, Research, Minorities, Social networks, Group identity, Social identity, Friendship

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Postmodernism and organizational research

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Drawing selectively from the often countervailing currents of postmodernism, we argue for an epistemology that combines a skepticism toward metanarrative with a commitment to rigorous standards of enquiry in pursuit of radical challenges to accepted knowledge. We discuss five problematics concerned with normal science, truth, representation, style, and generalizability, and we provide examples of postmodern approaches to classic data sets, local knowledge, eclectic sources, and the counterintuitive. In this article we seek to provoke an ongoing conversation concerning the potential of postmodernism for revolutionizing organizational research. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Postmodernism

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Deconstructing Organizations

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This reading of March and Simon's (1958) 'Organizations' illustrates the deconstructive approach to foundational texts. The article deconstructs the positivist agenda formulated in 'Organizations' to show that the text (a) replicates the moves of predecessors it condemns and (b) asserts an ideology of programming that justifies the inevitability of fractionated work. Deconstruction is used not to prevent science, but to open debate to complexities and issues that have been ignored or suppressed. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Usage, Textbooks, Deconstruction

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