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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Culture of Consumption"”.
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A Critical Analysis of the Culture of Consumption: A Running Curriculum
<p>In utilizing critical theory to analyze the culture of consumption in school and in society, this work examines how the individual is becoming increasingly marginalized in a consumer world where the ethic of consumption is constantly reinforced via hegemony. My analysis and examination also …
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Reading the Restaurant: Social Class, Identity, and the Culture of Consumption in the Nineteenth Century French Novel
<p>The restaurant, like so many of the institutions of French modern society, developed at a very particular moment in history. In this project, I tell the story of the maturation of the restaurant and study its unique role in the social history of Paris during the nineteenth century. By examining …
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Jazzvertising: Music, Marketing, and Meaning
… dissertation examines jazz from the perspective of advertisers and marketers that have used the music with a view to unraveling the complicated web of cultural meanings and values that attend to jazz in the 21st century. Advertising is a critically important and profoundly complex medium for the …
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Rebuilding the soul : churches and religion in Bavaria, 1945-1960
After twelve years of Nazi rule and with Germany in total ruin, the Catholic and Protestant churches sought to re-Christianize German society. Bringing Germans back to Christ was seen as the only way to make good on the Nazi past and ward off any future slips into political radicalism of either the …
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Kate Brew Vaughn: Marketing Domestic Expertise
<p>This thesis explores the career of Kate Brew Vaughn from her ascent as unknown homemaker to spokeswoman to a nationally syndicated columnist. Vaughn's professional life revealed the rise of a celebrity home expert and her role in propagating domestic ideals through consumption in the early …
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The Carrier Readiness Team realizing the vision of the Naval Aviation Enterprise
… an enterprise approach to managing these often competing requirements that uses modern business process tools under the fundamental principle of alignment. This process showed remarkable results at the factory-level, with production efforts generating significant savings and process …
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Consuming Talk: Youth Culture and the Mobile Phone
… over the past decade and the commensurate advent of mobile phone culture can be seen as interrelated with contemporary youth culture. This thesis addresses how young people make use of the mobile phone in their everyday lives, and how these practices demonstrate forms of cultural creativity and …
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Towards a conceptual model for the apparel industry in Thailand focused on domestic fashion origination
… several strands relating to the future prospects of the Thai fashion industry, which has undergone recent instability in the context of the global fashion system. They presuppose a reorientation and/or development of the domestic economy and culture of consumption of Thailand to favour innovation, …
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Phantasma-agoria of/in crisis. Lens-based media and collective experience of the political in performing ‘image’ and agora.
Phantasma-agoria of/in crisis. Lens-based media and collective experience of the political in performing ‘image’ and agora In this practice-based research, I am investigating ways in which an art event can transform the public space from a consumerist topos into a place that enacts the political, …
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Big box, no more quick fixes : a historical account of consumption, retail and discount shopping typologies
As of 2011, the fastest growing sectors of the American economy are related to, or directly involved in the retail business. The conditions which led to this phenomenon are rooted in the fundamental precepts of capitalism, national growth and social welfare. European retail entrepreneurs worked …
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Making the American Aristocracy: Women, Cultural Capital, and High Society in New York City, 1870-1900
For over three decades, during the height of Gilded Age economic extravagance, the women of New York High Society maintained an elite social identity by possessing, displaying, and cultivating cultural capital. Particularly, High Society women sought to exclude the Nouveaux Riches who, after …
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Dangerous Subjects: U.S. War Narrative, Modern Citizenship, and the Making of National Security, 1890-1964
… asks, “not as an exception to or the opposite of regulation, but rather as continuous with it, as the point when regulation’s militarism has surged into the open air?” Taking that question as my point of departure, this research explores literary accounts of U.S. warfare—from …