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Han, Yanmei – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This study explores how a transient community of Chinese visiting scholars in the US negotiates the language norms and identity in the transnational spaces. Transient communities, being different from diasporic stable communities in terms of flexibility and fluidity of movements, are subject to continuous negotiation of social or language norms.…
Descriptors: Asians, College Faculty, Foreign Nationals, Professional Identity
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Colwell, Brian – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2007
Interpersonal and intergroup contention is endemic to the social environment of California prisons. Data from in-depth interviews (N = 74) with prison inmates highlights a conceptual difference between the status behavior understood as signaling "deference" versus those signaling "respect." "Deference behavior"…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Social Environment, Criminals