Social Life of Values

34 Pages Posted: 26 Aug 2006

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S.J. Magala

Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM)

Date Written: March 30, 2006

Abstract

The case of the Danish “cartoon war” was a premonition of things to come: accelerated social construction of inequalities and their accelerated symbolic communication, translation and negotiation. New uses of values in organizing and managing inequalities emerge. Values lead active social life as bourgeois virtues (McCloskey, 2006), their subversive alternatives or translated “memes” of cultural history. Since social life of values went global and online, tracing their hybrid manifestations requires cross-culturally competent domestication (Magala, 2005) as if they were “memes” manipulated for further reengineering. Hopes are linked to emergent concepts of “microstorias” (Boje,2002), bottom-up, participative, open citizenship (Balibar,2004), disruption of stereotypical branding in mass-media (Sennett, 2006). However, Kuhn’s opportunistic deviation from Popperian evolutionary epistemology should fade away with other hidden injuries of Cold War, to free our agenda for the future of social sciences in general and organizational sciences in particular (Fuller, 2000, 2003).

Keywords: Complex Identities, Cross-Cultural Competence, Intersubjective Falsificationism, Managing Inequalities, Political Paradigms, Professional Evolution

Suggested Citation

Magala, Slawomir J., Social Life of Values (March 30, 2006). ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2006-019-ORG, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=902748

Slawomir J. Magala (Contact Author)

Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM)

P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
Netherlands

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