From Place to Platform: Extended Global Cities Theory for Transnational Cultural Diffusion
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates how global city characteristics shape the acceptance of non‐mainstream cultural goods—focusing on K‐pop—as they diffuse across digital platforms. While prior research emphasizes fandom, soft power or media strategies, this research highlights the role of urban infrastructure in cultural globalization.
Jeoung Yul Lee +2 more
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A Bourdieusian Perspective on Acculturation: Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Administrative Sciences, 2013 This article uses Bourdieu’s theory of practice (BTOP) to understand immigrants’ acculturation. It synthesizes research findings by discussing acculturation as: (1) equalization of immigrants’ and natives’ development (convergence); (2) language and ...
Leonel Prieto +2 more
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Education and Acculturation on Malaita: An Ethnography of Intraethnic and Interethnic Affinities [PDF]
, 1988 One of the central issues in educational anthropology is the changing nature of intraethnic and interethnic conflict and relationships. Conventional modernization theory suggests that the acculturation process will tend to diminish traditional ...
Page, James S.
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Assessment of culture and environment in the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study: Rationale, description of measures, and early data. [PDF]
, 2018 Neurodevelopmental maturation takes place in a social environment in addition to a neurobiological one. Characterization of social environmental factors that influence this process is therefore an essential component in developing an accurate model of ...
Arroyo, Judith +8 more
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International Tourism in the Global South: Revealing an Extractive Development Process
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Hosting international tourism remains a key development strategy for many Global South countries to generate economic growth, government revenue and employment. However, this conventional wisdom can be contested: tourism may instead be seen as an extractive process that disrupts livelihoods, ecosystems and host economies.
Julia Jeyacheya, Mark P. Hampton
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Language, Immigration and Acculturation in the Short Stories of Ha Jin [PDF]
, 2017 The Problems of Acculturation: Flushing, Queens, in the Short Stories of Ha Jin Abstract: Noted author Ha Jin is often thought of as a Chinese author despite the fact that all of his writing has been written in English.
Parascandola, Louis J., Punjabi, Rajul
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Discrimination, Acculturation, Acculturative Stress, and Latino Psychological Distress: A Moderated-Mediational Model [PDF]
, 2012 Prior research has found that perceived discrimination is associated with adverse mental health outcomes among Latinos. However, the process by which this relationship occurs remains an understudied area.
Driscoll, Mark W +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The Eastern Mediterranean lies directly on the principal migration route for human groups dispersing across Africa, Europe, and Asia. It also encompasses the Balkans, where fauna and flora, as well as hominin populations, are thought to have persisted through glacial periods.
Katerina Harvati
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English Language Acculturation and Academic Achievement Among Junior Year Nursing Students [PDF]
, 2009 Efforts to alleviate the current nursing shortage have focused on recruitment and retention of diverse nursing students. Language acculturation has been identified in the literature as one predictor of academic achievement (Salamonson et al, 2008 ...
Lukrich, Leah
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Searching for 'a third space’: a creative pathway towards international PhD students’ academic acculturation [PDF]
, 2016 Undertaking a PhD is a challenging endeavour. Pursuing a doctoral education in a ‘foreign’ context tends to increase the demands of this intellectual venture.
Baumfield, Vivienne +2 more
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