Dados Bibliográficos

AUTOR(ES) A. Aneesh
AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
ANO 2015
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO Sociological Theory
ISSN 0735-2751
E-ISSN 1467-9558
EDITORA Annual Reviews (United States)
DOI 10.1177/0735275115600736
CITAÇÕES 2
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18
MD5 6f2859fd2698dc70cbc53b56b23ee54a

Resumo

As work regimes become global, social communication increasingly occurs across locations far apart. In the absence of a common national, ethnic, or organizational culture across continents, what makes communication possible among social worlds technologically integrated in real time? Taking India's global call centers as the focus of analysis, this article attempts to solve the riddle of communication by showing how transnational business practices rely on the transmutation of cultural communication into global communication through the processes of neutralization and mimesis. Neutralization refers to attempts at pruning unwanted cultural particulars, whereas mimesis refers to simulating desired cultural elements.

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