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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Cultural sociology"”.
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The Cost of Leaving: A Cultural Sociology of Exiled Syrian Intellectuals
… socio-political transformation and the cultural trauma unfolding around it, and what sociological dynamics have impacted this meaning-making process. Methodologically, it triangulates data from document analysis, semi-structured interviews with 30 Syrian writers and artists living in …
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Cultural regeneration in English seaside towns under New Labour: a political economy perspective on the restructuring of tourist destinations
This thesis critically analyses the ways in which cultural regeneration was applied by successive New Labour Governments in English Seaside Towns, as a response to the decline of English seaside tourism. This research was carried out from the perspective of political economy, using a modified …
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Positioning the Intellectual: Žižek as a Sociological Phenomenon
… and intellectual celebrity. Drawing upon cultural sociology and the sociology of intellectual interventions, the dissertation widens the application of Positioning Theory, suggesting that Žižek’s unique mode of intellectual intervention, ‘super-positioning’, is the key to his rise as a …
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Aside from the norm: artistic sexual/gender dissent and nonnormative formations in Ukraine.
… contribution to the historical and cultural sociology of (nonnormative) sexuality and gender in Ukraine. It engages with figures and collectives situated what I describe as ‘aside from the norm’ in terms of their transgression of the gender/sex system, and in the sense of their …
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Three Papers on Culture, Time, and Attitudes
<p>This dissertation uses the lens of cultural sociology to understand variance in people’s attitude reports over time. Across three studies, I use a variety of panel surveys and statistical approaches to understand how and why people change their attitudes and adjudicate theories of culture. Study …
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Dynamics of National Morality: Negotiating Values and the State
… of values in these relations is examined using a cultural sociology lens combined with concepts from the sociology of morality and of organizations. In these dynamic processes, I argue, a new national morality is constructed, manifesting changes in power structures, social practices, and state …
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Race and Consumption: Consumer Markets and the Production of Racial Inequality
… has instead been studied primarily from a cultural perspective that examines the use of good and services as markers of cultural capital and social distinction. This cultural sociology of consumption has made key contributions to the study of inequality, but it also misses some of the …
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New distinctions : the impact of class and race on the cultural preferences of youth in Cape Town and Belo Horizonte
… explain them. As a result much of South African cultural sociology, especially with regards to youth culture, is entailed in in-depth ethnographic descriptions of particular subcultures. Less common is scholarly work dealing with the role of taste and cultural preferences in the reconfiguration …
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Making Futures, Making Selves: The Future-Oriented Subject in Eco-Political Documentary Films
… being fit for the future echo the logics of both cultural neoliberalism and posthumanism.
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The Rise of Independent Bookselling in China
This thesis is concerned with the rise of independent booksellers in China since the late 2000s. Drawing on the findings of a qualitative study I conducted with 55 independent booksellers between 2014 and 2015, I argue that independent bookselling in China is an economic activity politicized, and …
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What it’s Worth: Preferences and Expectations of Music Listeners in the Evaluation of Material Affordances
… the relationship between the materiality of cultural objects and consumption practices. Over the course of three chapters, I utilize data gathered from semi-structured interviews with heavy consumers of music to demonstrate that the shift from analog to digital technologies has shaped how …
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Gender Stability and Change: The Differential Characterization of Men and Women in Popular Country Music from 1944 through 2012
… capital, their bodies, and differences in cultural capital such as education.</p>
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Damaged goods? Clinical conversations and the cultural construction of cocaine-exposed children in foster care
"Early on in the ""crack era""--beginning roughly in 1985--a ""cocaine-baby syndrome"" characterized by jitteriness, inconsolability and poor social bonding was reported as were various birth defects, in the children of multiply addicted women who used cocaine. By the early 1990s, the reality of …
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Religion, symbol, and ethnicity of contemporary Mapuche people in Chile
… of hegemony and resistance that constitutes the cultural reconstruction of ethnicity at the crossroads of Mapuche people, the largest indigenous group in Chile, and the progressive Catholic Church. It focuses upon Comunidades Cristianas de Base (the Basic Christian Communities, hereafter CCB) in …
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Haya worldview and ethos: An ethnography of alcohol production and consumption in Bukoba, Tanzania
This dissertation is a study of alcohol production, consumption, and exchange among the Haya, a Bantu-speaking people who live west of Lake Victoria in northern Tanzania. It is based on field research conducted near Bukoba, administrative center of the Kagera Region (summer 1984, reconnaissance; …
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Sport, crisis, and Canadian identity in 1988: A cultural analysis
… of a series of political, economic and cultural events led some people to suggest that 1988 constituted ""a year of crisis in Canadian identity"". Among those events were the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement and its ultimate parliamentary contestation: the Canadian Federal …
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Memory struggles: Narrating and commemorating the Aum Affair in contemporary Japan, 1994-2015
… ‘collective trauma’ as a revised theory of ‘cultural trauma’ to describe an event which is represented as harmful and indelible to collective memory and identity. In contrast to ‘cultural trauma’, which stresses the importance of symbolic representations of traumatic events, ‘collective …
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Code switching and contextual culture: The Indian model of stability maintenance
Humans are capable of simultaneous individual cultural multiplicity. In many parts of the world individuals may not be encouraged to manifest this capability, or to perceive this trait in others who do manifest this capability. In India, however, there are at least two separate cultural systems, a …
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La cárcel y el control del delito en Navarra entre el Antiguo Régimen y el Estado liberal
We hold that a social history of the punitive institutions brings us closer to the development of the control of the disturbance and to the processes of criminalization of a social order (this one, in Navarra, even with the crisis of the Old Regime, discoursed basically integrated). We tackle it …
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The sociocultural context of the video game experience
… and the games themselves are analyzed as cultural texts which embody both traditional and emerging cultural themes. The major thrust of the dissertation involves the question of whether or not video games represent a significant cultural force. It is concluded that the video game is both a …
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