Subcultural variability and protean-identification in gun culture

IF 1.2 4区管理学 Q4 MANAGEMENT

Culture and Organization Pub Date : 2021-12-10 DOI:10.1080/14759551.2021.2015350

S. Blithe, Jennifer L. Lanterman

引用次数: 2

Abstract

ABSTRACT Gun culture in the Unites States is enmeshed in controversy, and is frequently described as a monolithic, static construct. In this paper, we argue that instead, gun culture is a fluid and fragmented collective of multiple subcultures that overlap, contradict, and coexist. Based on data collected through a collaborative event ethnography (CEE) at gun shows, we found that while gun collective members do strongly identify with gun culture, they also disidentify, schizo-identify, multi-identify, and change their identifications across multiple subcultures. In this way, people engage in protean identification, constantly changing arrays of organizational identifications. Ultimately, these contributions are useful for understanding stigmatized, hidden, or highly complex collectives and have practical implications for gun policy.

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枪支文化中的亚文化变异性和多样性认同

摘要美国的枪支文化陷入了争议之中，经常被描述为一个单一的、静态的结构。在本文中，我们认为，枪支文化是一个由重叠、矛盾和共存的多种亚文化组成的流动和碎片化的集体。基于通过枪支展上的合作活动民族志（CEE）收集的数据，我们发现，虽然枪支集体成员确实强烈认同枪支文化，但他们也会在多个亚文化中去认同、分裂认同、多重认同，并改变他们的认同。通过这种方式，人们参与了多变的识别，不断改变组织识别的阵列。最终，这些贡献有助于理解被污名化、隐藏或高度复杂的集体，并对枪支政策产生实际影响。

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Culture and Organization MANAGEMENT-

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3.20

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： Culture and Organization was founded in 1995 as Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies . It represents the intersection of academic disciplines that have developed distinct qualitative, empirical and theoretical vocabularies to research organization, culture and related social phenomena. Culture and Organization features refereed articles that offer innovative insights and provoke discussion. It particularly offers papers which employ ethnographic, critical and interpretive approaches, as practised in such disciplines as organizational, communication, media and cultural studies, which go beyond description and use data to advance theoretical reflection. The Journal also presents papers which advance our conceptual understanding of organizational phenomena. Culture and Organization features refereed articles that offer innovative insights and provoke discussion. It particularly offers papers which employ ethnographic, critical and interpretive approaches, as practised in such disciplines as communication, media and cultural studies, which go beyond description and use data to advance theoretical reflection. The journal also presents papers which advance our conceptual understand-ing of organizational phenomena.