Fifteen years ago, Steve Jobs introduced the iPod. Since then, most music fans have understood this has radically changed how they listen to music. Less understood are the ways that raw information – accumulated via downloads, apps and online searches – is influencing not only what songs are marketed and sold, but which songs become […]

A narrative is a story that describes and explains events and characters. Increasingly, narratives have also moved into the realm of politics, sociology, economics and religion. Dominant storylines relating to our lives and beliefs are pervasive throughout the media, academia and corporate culture. The institutions we respect and obey, from the education system to the […]

During the 1970s and 1980s, people were much less vocal about questions or disagreements they had with their organization’s position on numerous issues. In the Age of MultiDentity, when rules and norms regarding boundaries of acceptable behavior are continuously changing, employees are more active in trying to influence their organization’s political and social policies. Take […]

National identity is one’s identity or sense of belonging to one nation. It’s the perception of a nation as a cohesive whole, as represented by distinctive traditions, culture, language and politics. If an identity crisis is a period of uncertainty and chaos in identity due to unexpected or unwanted change, is that what’s happening to […]

In most families, mothers and fathers both work hard. Pew Research recently reported that moms and dads in the U.S. work essentially equal hours when paid work hours are combined with household chores and child care hours. Pew also reports that fathers are putting more time into their families than ever before. Yet, many social […]

Germany’s Cabinet on Wednesday approved a new bill that punishes social networking sites if they fail to swiftly remove illegal content such as hate speech or defamatory fake news. Learn more at the AP. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet agreed on rules that would impose fines of up to 50 million euros ($53.4 million) on Facebook, […]

Is there something wrong with the culture at United Airlines? A series of recent incidents have reinforced this view, from the horrifying moment when security officers violently dragged a passenger off a plane in April to a more recent incident in which an airline employee canceled a man’s flight after he began taping their heated […]

The pentagon is eager to get a handle on the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan by deploying more U.S. service personnel. Apparently, U.S. President Donald Trump’s advisers have called for additional troops to be sent to the South Asian hotspot in order to prop up the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in their fight against the […]

Normalization is a social process where over time, trends or events naturally come to be accepted as a “normal” part of daily life or people’s lifestyles or beliefs. The process occurs in tandem with political, social, religious and economic change as these shifts impact the jobs people do, the choices they make and the life […]

d at UC Berkeley on both sides: in opposition to Ann Coulter and in support of free speech. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez Neal H. Hutchens, University of Mississippi and Brandi Hephner LaBanc, University of Mississippi The recent cancellation of an appearance by conservative commentator Ann Coulter at the University of California at Berkeley resulted in […]