Sökning: "social distinctions"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 93 avhandlingar innehållade orden social distinctions.
1. Digitala distinktioner : Klass och kontinuitet i unga mäns vardagliga mediepraktiker
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores how social class matters in young men’s everyday relationship to digital media. The aim is to contribute to the existing knowledge about how young people incorporate digital media in their everyday lives by focusing on the structural premises of this process. LÄS MER
2. The Coloniality of Taste : A political ecology of middle class food practices in a Bolivian city
Sammanfattning : Cochabamba city, also referred to as the “gastronomic capital of Bolivia”, is a place where different cultures and tastes meet. Indulging in rich culinary traditions is a part of everyday life, but so are social differentiations reproducing long-standing inequalities between the indigenous and the non-indigenous population. LÄS MER
3. Around the Screen : Computer activities in children’s everyday lives
Sammanfattning : The present ethnography documents computer activities in everyday life. The data consist of video recordings, interviews and field notes, documenting (i) 16 students in a seventh grade class in a computer room and other school settings and (ii) 22 children, interacting with siblings, friends and parents in home settings. LÄS MER
4. Genmat i fokus : Analyser av fokusgruppssamtal om genförändrade livsmedel
Sammanfattning : This study focuses on social representations of genetically modified food (GMF). Drawing on data from eleven focus groups including lay people and decision-makers within the food industry, it aims to analyse how people talk about and try to comprehend and anchor the issue of GMF. LÄS MER
5. Schnittstelle Vernissage : Die Besucher als Wegbereiter und Multiplikatoren zeitgenössischer Kunst
Sammanfattning : How does art become Art? What is it that actually happens when a work of art is presented, as such, at an opening and gets accepted as Art? Who arc the actors, the decision makers, how do they interact, how does the self-structuring, selfgenerating, intricate system work that governs the interface between art and non-art? What is the importance and influence of the artists, the gallery owners, the art writers in journals and newspapers, the mass media, the visitors to the openings?Research in this area has so far mostly concerned art preferences, or the function of art as a social distinction marker. But the process through which the decision is made whether a particular object is accepted as art, - or rejected as such - has received much less attention. LÄS MER
