Sökning: "Consumer Culture"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 79 avhandlingar innehållade orden Consumer Culture.

  1. 16. "Take a Taste" : Selling Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales in 1934

    Författare :Moa Matthis; Heidi Hansson; Claire Squires; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; marketability; Book-of-the-Month-Club; consumer culture; commercialism; colonial Kenya; feudal ideal; aristocracy; identity; malleability; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This study explores the marketability of Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales, published in the US in 1934. The term marketability is used to refer to the book as a potentially desirable object for sale on the market, successfully promoted by the Book-of-the-Month-Club whose members were intent on educating themselves and refining their taste. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Dress Matters : Clothes and Social Order in Tallinn, 1600-1700

    Författare :Astrid Pajur; Margaret R. Hunt; Jonas Lindström; Janine Maegraith; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; dress history; material culture; seventeenth century; social order; Sweden; Tallinn; social hierarchy; early modern guilds; consumer revolution; fashion; clothing; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the relationship of clothes and social order in early modern Europe. The period has often been characterised as inert and immobile, with especially middling and poorer people living in a sartorially drab world, but a number of historians have demonstrated that it was also a period of profound material change, with consumer demand, democratisation of fashion and global trade engendering cosmopolitan sensibilities earlier than thought. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Gymkulturens logik : Om samverkan mellan kropp, gym och samhälle

    Författare :Tor Söderström; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; body; gyms; modern society; consumer culture;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to deal with gym culture, specifically what happens at a gym, how the interplay between gyms, body and society is to be understood. The collection of data required for the thesis took place in two different gyms, and in all 62 observations were made and 974 questionnaires were filled in by gym visitors. LÄS MER

  5. 19. I marknadens öga : Barn och visuell konsumtion

    Författare :Johanna Sjöberg; Bengt Sandin; Anna Sparrman; Karin Ekström; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Children; childity; advertising; visual culture; visual consumption; critical discourse analysis; consumer society; Barn; barnighet; reklam; visuell kultur; visuell konsumtion; konsumtionssamhälle; kritisk diskursanalys;

    Sammanfattning : Barn är konsumenter, får reklam riktad till sig och syns i reklam. Men om det är rätt och på vilka sätt det bör ske ger upphov till diskussion, såväl i som utanför akademin. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Green Retailing : A socio-material analysis

    Författare :Christian Fuentes; Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; consumer culture; consumption; retail; Green marketing; nature; socio-material practice; ethnographic method; Business and IT;

    Sammanfattning : The marketing and consumption of green products has grown significantly in recent years. As mediators between producers and consumers, retailing sites play an important role for the distribution of green products. It is through stores and other retail sites that green products are marketed and made available to consumers. LÄS MER