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Showing 1 to 20 of 157 for “"consumer culture"”.
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Taming Consumer Culture: A Contractarian Ethic for Advertising
… of import situated within the broader concept of consumer culture, and as such, its social and cultural influence cannot be ignored. The following chapters provide a descriptive analysis of the classical theorists of the social contract; Rawls' principles of justice as fairness; contemporary …
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Constructing consumer culture: Advertising in imperial Russia to 1914
… advertising's role in fostering a Russian consumer culture and expanding the public arena.
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Technologies of abundance : consumer culture, government and the media arts
… hybrids promises new cultural territories for consumer capitalism. The new contexts, technological, commercial, and telesocial, require a reconsideration of methodologies of cultural production and conventions of consumption. The new forms of production and consumption will inevitably generate …
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Imperial Splendor: Diamonds, Commodity Chains, and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
This work is based on a wide range of British newspapers and jewelry trade periodicals, particularly Jeweller and Metalworker, archival work done in the Birmingham City Archives on the Birmingham Jewellers' and Silversmiths' Association, the papers of Joseph Chamberlain (University of Birmingham) …
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Imperial splendor: Diamonds, commodity chains, and consumer culture in nineteenth-century Britain
… chains across the century informed metropolitan consumers' conception of and desire for diamond jewelry. It argues that knowledge about the conditions of production in colonial spaces and supply to the metropole increased diamond appreciation and, ultimately, consumption of diamond jewelry by …
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Consumption in the everyday imagination: how consumer culture gives shape to everyday thinking .
… how the imagination has been approached in consumer research in comparison to other fields concerned with its study and note a rather narrow approach that conceptualises and studies the imagination in terms of pleasurable, future orientated, desire-based daydreams created around consumer …
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Reproduction of Gender Ideology in Russian Consumer Culture: the Iconography of the ‘Russian Mother’
… this relation, this thesis analyses Russian consumer culture in terms of the production and reproduction of gender and motherhood ideologies using the lenses of consumer culture theory and feminism. To understand mass-mediated gendered motherhood ideologies, this research develops a …
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Advertising, Consumer Culture, Youth Cultures, and Media Technologies: A Cultural -Historical Approach to MTV
… conditions and contexts of the 'circuit of culture'. The significance and specificities of each moment must be conceived not as an isolated, autonomous phenomenon but in terms of their interconnections. Stuart Hall's notion of the circuit of culture is offered as a solution to overcome the …
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Fourth world consumer culture: Emerging consumer cultures in remote Aboriginal communities of North-Western Australia
… of European settlers in Australia, the material culture and lifestyle of the indigenous Aboriginal people of Australia has undergone dramatic change. Based on qualitative fieldwork in three remote Aboriginal communities in north-western Australia, this study examines the emergence of unique …
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Paradigm Shift in African American Funeral Customs: Looking through the Lens of Oral History and Consumer Culture
The degree attainment of college students is a critical issue that institutions of higher education are considering. Colleges want to improve their retention, progression, and graduation rates for all students. Over the past decades men, based on the literature reviewed, have earned fewer degrees …
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"Social class consciousness and consumer culture in transition—exploring the ""new poor"" in Taiwan and the U.S."
… of social class consciousness to assume that consumers identify with a particular social class so that they can perform corresponding consumption practices. This study offers a departure from that dominant perspective by discussing the fragmented social class consciousness of the ""new poor,"" …
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A study of Albanian and UK consumers' identity creation within food shopping experiences: a consumer culture theory approach.
… the relationship that Albanian and UK consumers have with food shopping culture, and how their choice of food outlets is affected by social factors. An emic approach is used to gather 'culture-rich' data with regards to the reasons why consumers choose farmers' markets or supermarkets …
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An investigation of the imbalance of a fast-growing consumer culture and insufficient waste management infrastructure across a number of sub-Saharan Africa cities
… are becoming more affluent and demanding more consumer goods. This implies not just growth in the volumes of materials entering and leaving cities, but also a qualitative shift in what is increasingly called ‘the metabolism’ of the cities where this consumption is taking place, a trend …
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"Roll over Beethoven" : the reaction of classical music recording divisions to the continuing emergence of a consumer culture in America between 1956 and 1982.
As the musical world looks at decreasing sales of classical music recorded on solid media, alarm bells sound. Why is there such a disparity between sales of classical recordings and those of popular music? This study seeks to understand if the situation in today's record market is a result of …
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An Overview of Stereotyped Portrayals of LGBT+ People in Japanese Fiction and Literature: Analysis of the historical evolution and commercialization of BL and yuri genres, and social practice of its consumer culture
… as it is, a well as an examination of the culture surrounding the fans of the genre. How did it become commercialized? Why has it managed to capture the hearts of many Japanese fans, as well as fans around the world? What is the mindset of the consumer and how do they practice fan culture, …
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Digital virtual mediation and the formation of jilbab girls as modern consumer subjects
… opportunities for active participation in global consumer culture and have the potential to shape the formation of modern consumer subjects. The study addresses key gaps in the literature, focusing on three areas: 1) the mediation process of global consumer culture within the digital virtual …
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Social Acceleration in the Marketplace: Three Essays Exploring the Intersection of Culture and Consumption
<p>Consumer culture is fast. Goods, services, people, ideas, and values – the material and nonmaterial aspects of culture – are moving more quickly throughout the marketing system than ever before. Such acceleration effects diverse stakeholders: people, public, and planet. This dissertation …
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Diamonds: Cultural Representations and Transformations of a "Girl's Best Friend"
… industry in the 1950s created a diamond culture where diamonds are continuously associated with images of love and devotion. With all of the diamond's positive associations, no one could have imagined that such a precious jewel could have negative connotations. Yet in the 1990s, the label …
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Patterns and conditions of health lifestyles in the United States and West Germany
… is provided that links basic stratification and consumer culture theories with health lifestyles. Selected lines of thought from M. Weber, Th. Veblen and C. W. Mills are drawn together for their contribution to a socio-structural understanding of lifestyle. Those classical ideas are then related …
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