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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Symbolic consumption"”.
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The symbolic consumption of cosmetic surgery: exploring the sociocultural context and the dynamics of self-concept
Ao longo da última década tem havido um crescente interesse académico no estudo da imagem corporal e dos comportamentos ligados à mudança corporal. A investigação tem conceptualizado a cirurgia estética como parte de um espectro de comportamentos de mudança corporal que tem sido normalizado nos …
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Study on the culture experiential and symbolic consumption of a heritage site: A case study of Mount Lushan in China
… theory (CCT) has been widely used in various consumption contexts as a culture-oriented approach. Nevertheless, exploring tourist experiences based on the CCT lens in heritage tourism is still limited, especially in Chinese culture. The research aims to determine how a cultural heritage site’s …
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Branding Museums through UGC in China: Insights from the Cultural and Creative Industries in the Era of Digitalisation.
… cultural heritage, creative design, and everyday consumption. While CCPs have become increasingly significant for museum revenue generation and visitor engagement, their role in shaping museum brand meaning, particularly through user generated content (UGC) on social media, remains insufficiently …
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Making meaning out of mountains : skiing, the environment and eco-politics
… and social problem. Skiing is based on the symbolic consumption of nature and is understood by many participants as a way of entering into a meaningful relationship with the non-human environment. However, interpretations of skiing as a non-consumptive use of non-human nature are too simple. …
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No curso da pintura: a produção de identidades de artista
… separation between technical aspects/meanings, symbolic production/symbolic consumption, body/culture, social action/artistic production, art/social life. It also permits reconsidering certain emphases common in the studies about art as a social phenomena – specially in the anthropology of art – …
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Exploring the meanings Jordanian consumers allocate to foreign brands: an ethnography on understanding the effect of brand country of origin image on consumption
… research has overlooked the affective and symbolic cues associated to COO image and how these cues may influence consumers’ consumption choices. This research aims to explore the influence of COO image on consumers by exploring the various meanings attached to COO image among Jordanian …
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Clothing style preference of working women related to self- image/clothing-image congruity and public self-consciousness
… self-consciousness on clothing behavior from the symbolic consumption perspective. Thus, relationships among the three major constructs, public self-consciousness (PSC), self-image/clothing-image congruity (actual self-congruity, ASC and ideal social-congruity, ISSC) and clothing-style preference …