Tag: Authority

Being unfamiliar with Indian business etiquette, Wilkerson omitted to consider other dynamics that were at play. For example, it is customary in India to address persons of “higher” station — by age, position in the organizational hierarchy, and those in a customer/client relations...

As a gay guy, this happens more often than you’d think. Friends, loved ones turning for my expertise on All Things Gay. Hmm, let me just pull out my Official Gay Membership Binder that was express-mailed to me the day I came out, along with the supplements sent monthly. I shall sue the Memb...

Because recognition is a specific response to how a specific individual is, the question arises as to who has the authority to recognize another, and what is the authority that sets the standards for recognition norms? The temptation is to say that social institutions, perhaps the state, can and sho...