Social Work Theories

Cultural Theory

Barnes, S. L. (2005). Black church culture and community action. Social Forces, 84(2), 967-994.

Barnes, S. L. (2015). Exiles in a foreign land. Humanity & Society, 39(3), 294-320.

Biesta, G. (2011). From learning cultures to educational cultures: Values and judgements in educational research and educational improvement. International Journal of Early Childhood, 43(3), 199-210.

Comstock, D. L., Hammer, T. R., Strentzsch, J., Cannon, K., Parsons, J., & Salazar, G.,II. (2008). Relational-cultural theory: A framework for bridging relational, multicultural, and social justice competencies. Journal of Counseling and Development: JCD, 86(3), 279-287.

Curtis, D. (2006). Mind sets and methods: Poverty strategies and the awkward potential of the enabling state. The International Journal of Public Sector Management, 19(2), 150-164.

Hartmann, T. (2010). Reframing polyrational floodplains: Land policy for large areas for temporary emergency retention. Nature + Culture, 5(1), 15-30.

Lazrus, H. (2015). Risk perception and climate adaptation in tuvalu: A combined cultural theory and traditional knowledge approach. Human Organization, 74(1), 52-61.

Mast, J. L. (2013). Cultural theory and its spaces for invention and innovation. Mind & Society, 12(1), 23-33.

Mawani, R. (2010). 'Half-breeds,' racial opacity, and geographies of crime: Law's search for the 'original' indian. Cultural Geographies, 17(4), 487-506.

Oscar van Heffen and Pieter-Jan Klok. (2003). Cultural theory revised: Only five cultures or more? Contemporary Political Theory, 2(3), 289-306.

Ramadanovic, P. (2010). The non-meaning of incest or, how natural culture is. Postmodern Culture, 20(2), n/a.

Riley, A. T. (2005). The theory of play / games and sacrality in popular culture: The relevance of Roger Caillois for contemporary neo-Durkheimian cultural theory. Durkheimian Studies, 11(1), 103-114.

Smilde, D. (2004). Contradiction without paradox: Evangelical political culture in the 1998 Venezuelan elections. Latin American Politics and Society, 46(1), 75-102.

Smith, C. (2001). Cultural theory: An introduction. Social Forces, 79(4), 1523-1525.

Torsello, D. (2013). The perception of corruption as social and institutional pressure: A comparative analysis of cultural biases. Human Affairs, 23(2), 160-173.

Verweij, M., Luan, S., & Nowacki, M. (2011). How to test cultural theory: Suggestions for future research. PS, Political Science & Politics, 44(4), 745-748.