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social engagement to sustain democracy, people’s shared exercise of power. All of these essentials of social life are jeopardized by contemporary cultural trends which damage communication and prioritize self-interest.
Jen Harvie • Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Performance Interventions)
beneficiaries they represent, including their interests in a thriving job market that offers economic
Holly Ensign-Barstow • From shareholder primacy to stakeholder capitalism
under conditions of scarcity. They become authoritative. A century ago, a scholar wishing to study the topics
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Racial-group behavior is a figment of the racist’s imagination. Individual behaviors can shape the success of individuals. But policies determine the success of groups.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
The rise of professionalized economics makes it useful for organizations to incorporate groups of economists and econometric analyses. Though no one may read, understand or believe them, econometric analyses help legitimate the organization's plans in the eyes of investors, customers (as with Defense Department contractors), and internal participan... See more
American Journal of Sociology • Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony on JSTOR
“opportunity hoarding.”
Michael O. Emerson • The Religion of Whiteness
Proposition 3. Organizations that incorporate societally legitimated rationalized elements in their formal structures maximize their legitimacy and increase their resources and survival capabilities
American Journal of Sociology • Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony on JSTOR
widen their aperture of responsibility and begin to consider a broad array of the interests of the