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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"Sociology of Culture"”.
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Festival Worlds: A Sociology of Culture, Collective Experience and Temporary Tribes.
This thesis contains an exploration of the contemporary, and highly social, leisure worlds of music festivals. It is concerned with the continued collective production of a culture and cultural practice which is no longer constitutes a sub-cultural gathering. Instead the research proposes that …
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„Ilyenek voltunk”– A zsidó identitástudat ábrázolásának kultúraszociológiai olvasata az amerikai játékfilmekben
… Way We Were” – A cultural sociological reading of the representation of the Jewish identity in the American feature films – From the beginning of the American movie history, there were lots of movies made, which had Jewish characters in leading roles. The Jewish characters in the movies of …
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The Festival in the Meta-system of Culture
Crossing the borders of various disciplines – anthropology, cultural studies, cultural theory, sociology of culture, sociology of art, art history, art criticism, events management and tourism – festival studies are slowly attracting academic attention in their search for independent status among …
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Constructing Hegemony: The Latin American Boom and the Book Industries of Spain and Mexico, 1963-1967
This thesis analyses the process of construction of hegemony in the Spanish-language publishing world in the 1960s. It compares the book industries of Spain and Mexico to understand how the Spanish rather than the Mexican industry established itself as the main one of their shared language. The …
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I sottotitoli dei film italiani in nederlandese (2000-2006) : un' analisi sociologica, linguistica e mediatica
… engineering, computer science, psychology, sociology, cognitive sciences, semiotics , linguistics, translation studies, and so on. In this PhD, we look at film as a cultural object, according to a tradition initiated by the sociology of culture. Considering a film as a cultural object allows …
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Three Papers on Beliefs: on their Measurement, their Transmission, and its Implications for Large-scale Change.
<p>This dissertation examines the dynamics of widely shared cultural beliefs and the impact that they have on individual-level cognition. It explores how these cultural structures shape cognitive processes like categorization, how the social learning strategies that agents use to learn these …
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A Cross-Cultural Study of the Collectivism-Individualism Paradigm: the Influence of Confucian Values on the Conflict-Handling Behavior of Male Graduate Business Students in Hong Kong and the United States
… Chinese handle conflict based on differences in culture. It is also speculated that these differences have been influenced by Confucian values. However, these positions have not been conclusively supported by empirical findings.</p> <p>Method. Both the Chinese Value Survey and Thomas and …
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Levels of Acculturation of Children of Mexican Descent as Perceived in their Kinetic Family Drawings
… More research activity is crucial in the light of the rapidly expanding population of Latino/Hispanics. Mexican families present a particular challenge to clinicians and to treatment settings, as well as to researchers. The impact of acculturation on psychological assessment instruments is …
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Culture and the modern self: a comparative analysis of the cultural theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Fredric Jameson
… and Fredric Jameson are in many respects two of the most influential contemporary theorists. Bourdieu's comprehensive theoretical model, termed "genetic structuralism", is a fruitful alternative to traditionally dichotomous modes of thinking: subjectivism vs. objectivism, agency vs. structure, …
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Women in the Lifestyle: A Qualitative Look at the Perceptions, Attitudes, and Experiences of Women Who Swing
The study consisted of a qualitative analysis of female swingers' perceptions, attitudes, and experiences related to their participation in the Lifestyle. Using feminist standpoint theory and pro-sex feminist theory as the theoretical framework, in-depth interviews were conducted via the Internet …
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Liberty, Post-Colonialism, and RuneQuest: the discourse of Imperialism in tabletop RPGs
… primarily race and civilization, for the purpose of entertainment and storytelling. Developing fields of scholarship on Tabletop RPGs, however, emphasize the ability of Tabletop RPGs to inspire critical thinking and challenge pre-conceived ideas that players accept about race, identity, and …
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Selected Variables Related to and Content Dimensions of the Family Concept of Seventh-day Adventist Parents in Costa Rica
… This study was concerned with the family concept of Seventh-day Adventist parents in Costa Rica. It was expected that an understanding of such concept would provide useful clues for the development of family life education programs sponsored by the Church.</p> <p>The purpose was to obtain a …
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Craft Beer in the US: A Production of Culture Perspective
In this dissertation I use the production of culture perspective as a lens to analyze the emergence of craft beer in the US. In doing so, I examine how the six facets of the production of culture perspective have both constrained and stimulated the production of craft beer in the US. The six facets …
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