Ignorance at Risk: Interaction at the Epistemic Boundary of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi SchemeSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 39 - Trang 221-246 - 2016
David R. Gibson
Most long-lived organizational deceptions require the cooperation of outsiders who are close enough to the deception to suspect it, yet deliberately limit their knowledge so as to maintain plausible deniability. The interaction of such “proximate outsiders” with insiders—those who are fully “in the know”—can be a delicate affair, yet its careful management is essential to the survival of the decep...... hiện toàn bộ
Non-threatening Muslim Men: Stigma Management and Religious Observance in AmericaSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 41 - Trang 41-62 - 2018
Pooya S. D. Naderi
In Western contexts, the social identities of Muslim men pose a persistent predicament. Yet few studies have conceptualized the ways in which these identities are negotiated in encounters with non-Muslim publics. In this study, I examine how Muslim men experience, interpret, and cope with anti-Islamic attitudes by analyzing in-depth interviews with twenty-six young observant Muslims living in the ...... hiện toàn bộ
Animal Rights Talk: Moral Debate over the InternetSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 20 - Trang 399-418 - 1997
Harold A. Herzog, Beth Dinoff, Jessica R. Page
Messages sent over Animal Rights-Talk, an electronic mail network devoted to the discussion of issues related to the animal rights movement, were analyzed. Messages typically fell into the following categories: questions and information, discussions of philosophical issues, ethical problems associated with the treatment of particular species, the politics of the animal rights move...... hiện toàn bộ
Trouble en Route: Drug Trafficking and Clientelism in Rio de Janeiro ShantytownsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 29 - Trang 427-445 - 2006
Enrique Desmond Arias
This article examines the ways that endemic drug trafficking has affected local level politics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Drawing on ethnographic analysis of political exchanges in the 1998 national elections in three favelas (shantytowns), I argue that drug trafficking has changed the practice of clientelism. Evidence and analysis in this paper will show that the persistence of drug trafficking i...... hiện toàn bộ