Sökning: "department stores"

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  1. 1. Structuring Fashion : Department Stores as Situating Spatial Practice

    Författare :Daniel Koch; Lars Marcus; Rolf Gullström Hughes; Staffan Henriksson; Judith Williamson; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; architecture; architecture theory; architectural morphology; spatial systems; department stores; commercial cultures; shopping; consumption; social structures; fashion; identity; public culture; relational space; space syntax; Architecture; Arkitektur;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates department stores as complex spatial and cultural buildings, in which values and ideas are expressed, negotiated, and produced. Situated in a cultural context commonly referred to as a society of consumption, where identity and social structures are worked out through consumption rather than production, the query turns to a specific act of consumption: that of shopping. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Internet or Traditional Stores : Identifying Influences on Consumers' Mobile Phone Purchases

    Författare :Therese Hansen; Amjad Hadjikhani; Cecilia Pahlberg; Peter Thilenius; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business Studies; Företagsekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This explorative study aims to identify factors that can explain why some consumer purchases occur via Internet Stores while others take place in traditional stores. During the last few years' development of IT and Internet, the thoroughly explored research area of where consumers purchase has come to involve a new type of retail store, the Internet store. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Drömmars värde : Varuhus och lotteri i svensk konsumtionskultur 1897-1939

    Författare :Orsi Husz; Arne Jarrick; Anders Berge; Peder Aléx; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; consumption; consumer culture; consumer dreams; department store; shopping; consumer credit; shoplifting; lottery; gambling; state lottery; premium bonds; rationality; irrationality; hedonism; asceticism; money; morality; values; modernity; gender; class; History subjects; Historieämnen; Historia; Ekonomisk historia;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation explores ideas about consumption in general and about consumer dreams in particular in early twentieth century Sweden. This is done in an analysis of two specific consumer environments –- the department store and the lottery. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Du är NK! : Konstruktioner av yrkesidentiteter på varuhuset NK ur ett genus- och klassperspektiv 1918-1975

    Författare :Karin Åmossa; Eva Blomberg; Lisa Öberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Work identities; gender; gendered division of labour; narratives; department stores; NK; shop assistants; shop work; clothing; trade unions; Giddens; Work sciences and ergonomics; Arbetsvetenskap och ergonomi;

    Sammanfattning : How were work identities of female and male shop assistants in the clothing departments at NK constructed, and how did this change over time? The starting point of this thesis has been that identities are contextually constructed. Focus has been set on trying to understand how the process of ‘making’ identity has been done in a historical perspective for shop assistants in clothing departments at the department store NK, AB Nordiska Kompaniet, in Stockholm. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Vackrare vardagsvara – design för alla? : Gregor Paulsson och Svenska Slöjdföreningen 1915–1925

    Författare :Gunnela Ivanov; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; arts and crafts; art and technology; industrial art; arts décoratifs; industrial design; history of design; household wares; architecture and engineering; housing problem; home furniture; romanticism; Deutscher Werkbund; Slöjdföreningen; Svensk Form; Swedish grace; IKEA; social aesthetics; Sozial Ästhetik; functionalism; reformation of museums; exhibitions; fairs; department stores; artefact use; taste; adult education; theological aesthetics; Historia; History subjects; Historieämnen; History; historia;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is structured in six chapters. Chapter I contains an introduction and includes purpose, theory, method, and concepts. LÄS MER