Sökning: "Jacob Östberg"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 avhandlingar innehållade orden Jacob Östberg.
1. What's Eating the Eater? Perspectives on the Everyday Anxiety of Food Consumption in Late Modernity
Sammanfattning : Consumers today are constantly showered with a vast array of different messages about what and how they should and should not eat in order to lead a healthy life. This bombardment has escalated over the last decades as various actors, such as representatives from the medical community and public policy makers, have increasingly stressed the connections between individuals’ food consumption habits and the state of their health. LÄS MER
2. Essays on Consumers’ Socially Responsible Decision Making
Sammanfattning : Identity has important implications for consumers’ choices in the marketplace. While prior research has mainly studied identity at the individual level, consumers’ social identities are growing more relevant in the marketplace. This dissertation examines how these social identities affect socially responsible decision-making. LÄS MER
3. Paradoxical consumer enjoyment : A cultural perspective on cigarette consumption
Sammanfattning : In a time when health is seen as an important personal achievement, it is difficult to understand why people consume cigarettes. The explanations for cigarette consumption tend to be one-sided and the most common explanation are addiction and compulsive personality. LÄS MER
4. Consumption and Practice : Unfolding Consumptive Moments and the Entanglement with Productive Aspects
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates consumption through a practice-theoretical perspective. Practices are routinized sets of human activity involving doings, meanings, and objects. Previous work has suggested conceiving of consumption as moments in practices. LÄS MER
5. Looking vanlig; neither too much nor too little : A study of consumption of clothing among mainstream youth in a Swedish small town
Sammanfattning : This thesis studies consumption among young people who identify as mainstreamers in a Swedish small town. In order to map patterns of clothing consumption and to understand what was central in the young people’s self-identification, the research was conducted using a mix of ethnographic methods and wardrobe studies. LÄS MER
