How Organizations Moderate and Bound Cultural Processes Surrounding Equality

Organization scholars interested in cultural processes, such as identification and categorization, have been deeply influenced by Miche`le Lamont’s work. Lamont, Beljean and Clair’s new essay (LBC) on ‘cultural processes and causal pathways to inequality’ provides yet another important contribution...

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Published in:Socio-economic review 2014-07 (12 (3))
Main Authors: Monin, Philippe, Forgues, Bernard, Wang, Tao
Format: Article
Language:English
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Business administration
Economics and Finance
Humanities and Social Sciences
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Summary:Organization scholars interested in cultural processes, such as identification and categorization, have been deeply influenced by Miche`le Lamont’s work. Lamont, Beljean and Clair’s new essay (LBC) on ‘cultural processes and causal pathways to inequality’ provides yet another important contribution to this body of work, with a strong statement that we all share: cultural processes can contribute to the production and reproduction of inequality and are eminently performative. In this comment, we elaborate on how organizations may moderate cultural processes surrounding equality and examine a set of boundary conditions to the relation between cultural processes and inequality.
ISSN:1475-1461
1475-147X