Sökning: "private and public identity"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 45 avhandlingar innehållade orden private and public identity.
6. De villkorligt frigivna : relationen mellan munkar och lekfolk i ett nutida Thailand
Sammanfattning : This dissertation, based on 14 months of fieldwork carried out in central, northern and north-eastern Thailand, focuses on laypeople's demands on contemporary Thai Theravada sangha. In the aftermath of the economic breakdown in 1997, an intense discussion concerning the moral status of the sangha took place. LÄS MER
7. Structuring Fashion : Department Stores as Situating Spatial Practice
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
8. Moving and Jamming : Implications for Social Movement Theory
Sammanfattning : The present compiled dissertation explores culture jamming as a social movement in late capitalist information society. Culture jamming embraces groups and individuals practicing symbolic protest against the expansion and domination of large corporations and the logic of the market into public and private life. LÄS MER
9. Hypocrites, Devil's Advocates, and Bandwagoneers : Essays on Costly Signaling
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis contains three essays, all studying different aspects of costly signaling in social interactions. The first chapter explains Hypocrisy as an equilibrium outcome of strategic interactions where society cares about a person's private identity but only observes public actions. LÄS MER
10. Landskapet som lärobok : Regionalitet och medborgarfostran i Jämtland kring sekelskiftet 1900
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the relationship between regionality and societal integration at the turn of the 20th century from an historical and pedagogical perspective. The national identity project of the time that made national unity its overarching goal and that imagined the nation as a homogenous entity, also institutionalised regional distinctiveness. LÄS MER