This post was prompted by a Facebook post made by one of my doctoral advisees Rahul Rastogi. The post depicted the ways in which a group of students occupied a Recruitment session held by Goldman Sachs at Princeton University. The occupation of the Goldman Sachs recruitment session, similar to many such occupations happening across the US, was innovative in its ability to draw our attention to the interplays of corruption and greed on college campuses, and in raising some fundamental questions about practices such as corporate recruitment on our college and university campuses. Universities and colleges are often the breeding grounds for the unethical practices that are embodied in the corporate cultures of organizations like Goldman Sachs, J P Morgan Chase, and Lehman Brothers. However, on many college and university campuses, and particularly among the elite students of elite MBA programs of these universities and colleges, for the longest time, these were the most coveted jobs....
This blog offers Mohan Dutta's reflections on the theoretical framework of the culture-centered approach, examining the interplays among Structure, Culture, and Agency in shaping marginalisation and the ways in which communities at the margins challenge structures. Writings on the blog are continually being revised to reflect the organic analysis of structure and agency.