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Gonçalves, Aline Pereira. "O rato que vê, o olho que rói: um estudo multifocal de Os ratos, de Dyonélio Machado." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2010. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1716.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>Baseada na escassa fortuna crítica de Dyonélio Machado (1895-1985), esta dissertação estabelece uma análise multifocal de seu romance mais conhecido, Os ratos (1935). Em três ensaios, é discutida a importância do escritor no cenário literário nacional até os dias de hoje e a análise crítica da sociedade brasileira da década de 1930 que apresenta em sua obra, sob o enfoque de seu protagonista Naziazeno Barbosa, um funcionário público de classe média, sempre às voltas com questões financeiras, que acabam indo muito além<br>Based on the scarce critical fortune of the brazilian writer Dyonélio Machado (1895-1985), this study establishes a multifocal analyses of his most noted novel Os ratos (1935). In three essays are discussed the writers role in the brazilian literary panorama until nowadays and the critical analyses of the brazilian society in the 1930s, put forward by his work from the protagonists point of view. Naziazeno Barbosa is a civil servant from de middle class who is always dealing with financial issues, bringing on many other matters
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Ziegelman, Karen 1960. "GENERATIONAL POLITICS AND AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH MOVEMENTS OF THE 1960S AND 1970S (FISH-INS, WOUNDED KNEE, ALCATRAZ)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/275334.
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Kumlin, Larsson Ludwig, and Henrik Svensson. "Arbetsmarknaden når ett nytt skede. : En fallstudie om hur management inom banksektorn anpassar sinamotivationsstrategier mot generation Y." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-19307.
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Motivation är en viktig del inom en organisation, att ha en motiverad och engageradarbetsplats är väsentligt för att skapa positiva resultat. Idag står generation Y och knackarpå arbetsmarknadens dörr intensivare än någonsin, därför är det viktigt för managers ochchefer att ha ett kunnande på hur denna grupp människor fungerar och hur det är möjligtatt få dem att presentera på allra högsta nivå. Denna komplexa grupp människor är denbäst utbildade generationen någonsin, men saknar erfarenhet ute i arbetslivet. Derasattityd och etik skiljer sig från föregående generationer, på grund av detta krävs det nyametoder, nya strategier och ett nytt tankesätt från landets managers och chefer. Syftenmed denna studie är att undersöka hur organisationer i banksektorn anpassar sittmanagement för generation Y.Denna studie har ett induktivt närmande, med ett undersökande tillvägagångssätt. Dettaför att skapa en bild av hur motivationsstrategierna ser ut i nuläget och hur väl dem äranpassade för generation Y. De primära data har samlats in med hjälp av en djupgåendeoch ostrukturerad intervjumetod med bankmanagers runt om i Sverige.Studiens resultat stärker att olika motivationsstrategier så som inflytelse och delaktighet,möjlighet till befordran, utbildning och utveckling, möjlighet till en stabil och säkerframtid, anpassad arbetsmiljö, anpassade arbetsuppgifter, ett balanserat och flexibeltarbetsliv, anpassad ledarskap/management, löne-förmåner och lön används frekvent föratt främja engagemang och motivation hos anställda inom banksektorn. Att ge anställdaen möjlighet att främja samhället var en faktor som var förbisedd och något som varjeenskild individ fick ta eget ansvar för.Eftersom motivations och engagemangs-strategier används kontinuerligt i allaorganisationer så är denna studie påverkad av banksektorn, då detta är området som harvalts vid undersökningen. Denna sektor kan ha en direkt nytta av deresultat som har tagits fram, vad studien påvisar gentemot vad som är de optimalamotivations-strategier för generation Y, men kan även implementeras i organisationertillhörande skiljande sektorer.
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Kouroutaki, Alexandra. "Surréalisme et peinture métaphysique dans l’art néohellénique : le cas de la « Génération artistique des années 1930 » : Nikos Engonopoulos, Gerassimos Steris, Georges Gounaro." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014BOR30057.
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L’objectif de ce travail est l’étude de la démarche artistique du mouvement surréaliste et de la peinture métaphysique en Grèce pendant la période des années 1930. En particulier la thèse étudie le cas des peintres Nikos Engonopoulos, Gerassimos Steris et Georges Gounaro. Tout en examinant « l’idiome pictural » des artistes, ce travail vise également à élucider les influences reçues des artistes Grecs tant par le mouvement surréaliste en France que par les aspirations métaphysiques de la peinture de Giorgio de Chirico. Ainsi orientée, la mise en relation s’effectue sur deux axes, premièrement thématique et deuxièmement stylistique. Dans la première partie, la thèse considère la réception du surréalisme et de la peinture métaphysique en Grèce, effectuée dans des conditions hostiles. Il s`agit donc d`étudier le concept de la « Grécité » et le contexte historique et sociopolitique qui a marqué l’implantation retardée et l’expression affaiblie de cette peinture qui, affranchie des contraintes de l’académisme, a provoqué un scandale sans précédent, combinant Modernisme et Tradition. Dans les parties suivantes, ce travail aborde des thèmes communs dans l`œuvre des artistes du corpus, à savoir l`espace pictural surréel, méta empirique, et onirique, les visions métaphysiques, le rôle du Mythe Orphique, et finalement la représentation et le symbolisme de la figure humaine, historique et mythique, dans son inquiétante étrangeté. De surcroît, la thèse révèle l’originalité de cette création artistique subversive (thèmes choisis, techniques, dessin, et couleurs utilisées) qui a oscillé entre les influences occidentales et la revendication d`une spécificité nationale et culturelle<br>The objective of this work is the study of the artistic process of the surrealist movement and the metaphysical painting in Greece, during the 1930s. In particular, the thesis examines the case of painters Nikos Engonopoulos, Gerassimos Steris, and Georges Gounaro. While examining the artists’ « pictorial idiom », it also seeks to elucidate the influences received from Greek artists by the surrealist movement in France and by the metaphysical aspirations of Giorgio de Chirico’s painting. The method of approach is based on the parallel, performed on two axes, firstly thematic and secondly stylistic. In the first part this work considers the reception of surrealism and the metaphysical painting in Greece, at the time of the inter-war period, which was carried out in adverse conditions. The reasons for the weak expression of Surrealism and its delayed implantation in Greece are attributed to the socio-political context and the imperatives of the time. This surreal and metaphysical creation, freed from the constraints of academic painting, caused a scandal as she approached Greek tradition in an innovative way. In the following sections the research deals with common topics in the pictorial work of Greek artists’, namely the surreal, meta-empirical, and dreamlike pictorial space, as well as painters’ metaphysical visions, the role of the Orphic myth, and finally the presence and the symbolism of historical and mythical human figures which often follow the principle of metamorphosis. In addition this work reveals the originality of this art (topics, drawing and colours used) mainly due to its Greek character. It’s a particular case study of that thoroughly subversive artistic creation, oscillated between Western influences and claims of national and cultural specificity
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Kahnke, Corinna. "Gender (trouble) in the Generation Golf Popliteratur in 1990s Germany /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3278237.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Germanic Studies, 2007.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 3876. Adviser: Claudia Breger. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 8, 2008).
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Cavalli, Noemi. "Study of heavy bosons production in 3-3-1 models with the ATLAS detector at LHC." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/19300/.
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Tra le teorie oltre il Modello Standard il modello 331 risulta essere una motivata estensione del Modello Standard. Tale modello è di grande interesse fenomenologico e sperimentale poiché costituisce l'unica estensione del Modello Standard che introduce nella teoria sia un bosone doppio carico scalare ($H^{\pm\pm}$) che un bosone doppio carico vettore ($Y^{\pm\pm}$). Lo studio presentato in questo elaborato ha come scopo il determinare una modalità per discriminare il segnale associato al bosone scalare $H^{\pm\pm}$ dal segnale relativo al bosone vettore $Y^{\pm\pm}$, nel caso in cui ad LHC si abbia evidenza sperimentale relativa ad un generico bosone doppio carico, con una trascurabile contaminazione da parte del fondo dal Modello Standard. Si impiegano campioni MC generati per un'energia del centro di massa di $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV considerando un benchmark point tale da porre i valori per le masse dei bosoni a $m_{H^{\pm\pm}} = m_{Y^{\pm\pm}} = 1000$ GeV. Il processo preso in esame è $pp \longrightarrow Y^{++}Y^{--}(H^{++}H^{--}) \longrightarrow \ell^+\ell^+\ell'^-\ell'^-$, dove lo stato finale risulta essere comprensivo di due coppie di leptoni aventi uguale sapore e medesima carica elettrica. Tutti i sapori dei leptoni sono considerati.
L'analisi, volta a discriminare i due bosoni menzionati, è condotta basandosi sulle distribuzioni ottenute al truth level relative alle variabili associate allo stato finale considerato. Poiché le distribuzioni risultanti non risultano essere sufficientemente differenti da consentire una discriminazione tramite un approccio cut-based, si svolge una analisi multivariata impiegando diversi classificatori: BDTs, MLP e discriminante di Fisher. I tre metodi, allenati e testati, risultano avere prestazioni simili. Sebbene i segnali associati ad $Y^{\pm\pm}$ e $H^{\pm\pm}$ risultino simili, è possibile discriminare il bosone vettore dallo scalare. In particolare, si ottiene un massimo potere di rigetto dell'ipotesi spin 0 al $80\%$ CL.
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Persson, Linda, and Johanna Svensson. "Undersköterskans tysta revolution : en kvalitativ undersökning av hur två generationer undersköterskor upplever sitt arbete." Thesis, University of Kalmar, School of Human Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-140.
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<p>The Swedish old-age care will in the near future face an extensive need to recruit enrolled nurses by virtues of the demographical development. The generation born in the 1940s will soon retire, and at the same time the rest of the population is growing older. One thing that becomes more important in how to draw more people to the old-age care, is to understand how the ones who allready work there experience their own worksituation.</p><p>The purpose of this study was to find out how enrolled nurses from two different generations experienced their own occupational role and make similarities and differences between the two generations experiences visible. The topics of interest in our study are the respondents own thoughts about their education, their worksituation today, what they think of the future and how they believe others regard their work. To fulfill the purpose of our study we used qualitative interviews. We have performed interviews with three enrolled nurses between 50 and 57 years of age and four enrolled nurses between 20 and 25 years of age.</p><p>The result was then analyzed with the help of Ingleharts theory “The silent revolution” and the concept of generations. The results showed that there were differences between the two generations. We can´t either on the basis of the small selection of respondents in our study draw any general conclusions. But some differences that show is that the older generation in a larger extent identify with their own occupational role. We also experience that the older are more satisfied with their work situation. They see possibilities to develop in their profession, which the younger don´t. The younger make demands on more possibilities and are more restless then the older generation. From the result we can also see that eatch generation is relative homogeneous. When their is differences between the generations their is often similarites within the own generation. One thing that both generations have in common and that shows clear in the interviews are the importens of empathy and good treatment.</p>
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Krång, Maria, and Tova Dahlgren. "Guds representant på jorden : frikyrkliga och icke kristna ungdomars upplevelse och hantering av stress." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen för Pedagogik, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-19308.
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Bakgrund till studien: I och med uppkomsten av ett modernt, eller senmodernt, samhällehar förutsättningarna förändrats dramatiskt för den enskilde individen som tvingas handskas med en stress och kravfylld verklighet för att få en plats i samhället. Det är denna verklighet som ungdomen av idag möter och tvingas bemästra. Sett till de ökade kraven och den förhöjda stressen tyckte vi det var intressant att undersöka hur tron på en gud påverkar upplevelsen och hanteringen av stress för dessa ungdomar. Har man som frikyrklig en bättre grund att stå på i jämförelse med icke kristna ungdomar och påverkas detta av hur man låter sin identitet komma till uttryck?Syfte: Syftet med vår uppsats är att undersöka om det finns någon skillnad mellan de intervjuade frikyrkliga ungdomarna och de intervjuade icke kristna ungdomarna i hurderas identitet tar sig i uttryck, sett till relationer, andlighet, intressen, åsikter samt val av klädstil? Ytterligare ett syfte är att ta reda på om det finns någon skillnad mellan dessa två grupper vad gäller upplevelsen av stress. Slutligen vill vi undersöka om det finns någon skillnad grupperna emellan i hur de hanterar den stress de upplever.Frågeställningar: Finns det någon skillnad mellan de två intervjuade grupperna i hur deras identitet tar sig i uttryck, sett till relationer, andlighet, intressen, åsikter samt val av klädstil? Finns det någon skillnad mellan de två intervjuade grupperna vad gäller upplevelsen av stress? Finns det någon skillnad mellan de två intervjuade grupperna i hur de hanterar sin upplevda stress?Metod och material: Vi har använt oss av kvalitativ metod med intervju i vår undersökning. Sammantaget har vi intervjuat tio respondenter, varav fem var frikyrkliga och resterande fem var icke kristna. Samtliga undersökta var i åldern 20-24 år.Huvudresultat: Det som enligt oss varit synligt är att frikyrkliga ungdomar tenderar att känna och visa mer empati i jämförelse med den icke kristna gruppen. Som en konsekvens av deras kristna värderingar känner de en medkänsla för omvärlden och oroar sig för mänskligheten, medan de icke kristna mer har fokus på det egna livet och det som står dem närmast. De frikyrkligas fokusering på meningen med livet samt, relationer och medmänsklighet medför, enligt oss, att de känner en högre grad av stress och då framförallt långtidsrelaterad stress. De upplever att de måste vara goda kristna som gör världen bättre och känner krav på att alltid finnas där för andra, samt krav på att åstadkomma storheter i sitt liv. Bland de icke kristna kunde vi istället se mönster som pekade på att de utvecklat en blasé inställning till omvärlden, vilket gjorde att de upplevde en lägre grad av stress. Att de inte verkade bry sig om det utanför deras egna liv medförde, menar vi, att de kunde bemästra stressen på ett mer fullgott sätt eftersom ingenting berörde dem nämnvärt. Vid hanteringen av stress kunde vi se tendenser på att de frikyrkliga ungdomarna hade fler gynnsamma faktorer för att kunna bemästra stress i jämförelse med den icke kristna gruppen. Bland annat hade de ett högre socialt stöd och en större KASAM vilket skulle kunna vara en hjälp som leder till att de klarar av att ta inomvärlden och visa empati. De intervjuade frikyrkliga verkar således, enligt oss, ha enförmåga att möta fler stressorer eftersom de har faktorer som hjälper dem, medan de ickekristna ungdomarna visar tendenser till att inta ett blasé förhållningssätt till livet vilket skulle kunna vara en strategi för att klara av att möta stressen och kraven som finns i samhället.
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Can, Isin. "Youth In The 1980s In Turkey: Children Of Crisis." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12612064/index.pdf.
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Turkey is an arena of social struggles for young people who have often been repressed, marginalized, invalidated,isolated and stereotyped by the dominant discourses that shape the existence of youth. This could be related to the rapidly changing circumstances that anticipate the milieu of frequent crises Turkey has been associated with. This thesis is an attempt to contribute to an understanding of the social patterns that are reflections of the mediated crisis and their role in identity formation processes of youth in the 1980s. It focuses on the post-1980 generation in Turkey. The study analyzes constructions and representations of youth in Turkey, particularly between 1980 and 1990. Institutional ethnography was used in order to understand the emergence of the post-1980 generation, as well as to draw a picture of politics and culture in the 1980s, focusing on identity politics to comprehend the public discourse in which this generation was represented.
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Sternberg, Jason. "Generation X and television current affairs: Journalism and youth culture in the 1990s /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17999.pdf.
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AMARAL, BIANCA MESQUITA. "VARX MODELS FOR SCENARIO GENERATION OF WIND AND RIVER FLOW APPLIED TO ENERGY TRADING." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2011. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=19308@1.
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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>A estabilização sazonal da oferta de energia tem sido um desafio ao
planejamento da operação, e dada a complementaridade existente entre as fontes
hidráulica e eólica, um plano de ação integrado poderia mitigar o risco natural
envolvido no processo de geração de energia. A construção de cenários integrados
de vento e vazão constituiria uma importante ferramenta para o planejamento das
operações e cálculo do despacho ótimo, visto que, a energia eólica tem assumido
importância crescente e está, cada vez mais, inserida no ambiente de
comercialização de energias. No Brasil, onde a capacidade eólica instalada vem
atingindo patamares significativos, predominantemente na região Nordeste, os
cenários integrados seriam incorporados ao modelo Newave utilizado pelo ONS.
Este trabalho se propõe a desenvolver modelos de estimação conjunta de vento e
vazão através do algoritmo recursivo de mínimos quadrados ponderados,
alimentado pelas séries de fator de capacidade eólico, vazão e energia natural
afluente, as últimas provenientes do modelo Newave. Em seguida a geração de
cenários integrados utiliza o método de simulação de Monte Carlo. Os resultados
obtidos no processo de modelagem demonstraram bom desempenho, e as séries
sintéticas simuladas preservaram as características das séries originais.<br>The seasonal stability of supply energy has been a challenge for operation
planning for the electric sector. Since the existence of the complementarity
between wind and hydro sources, an integrated action plan could mitigate the
natural risk involved in the electricity generation process. The integrated wind and
streamflow scenarios would constitute an important tool for operation planning
and also would provide means to calculate the optimal dispatch. Due wind power
has assume increasing importance and it has been inserted in the energy trading
environment more and more. In Brazil, the installed wind power capacity has
reached significant levels, predominantly in the Northeast region, the integrated
scenarios would be incorporated into the Newave model, which is used by the
ONS. This work aims to develop models for joint estimation of wind and
streamflow through the recursive algorithm of weighted least squares, fed by the
series of wind capacity factor, streamflow and natural hydro power, the latest
comes from Newave model. Next, the integrated scenarios generation uses Monte
Carlo simulation method. The final results in the modeling process showed good
performance, and simulated synthetic series preserved the characteristics of the
original series.
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Ercan, Suna. "Identity Formation Process Of Young Generation Educated Palestinians In Israel In The 1990s." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12605237/index.pdf.
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The main purpose of the present study is to explore the tendencies regarding identity definition of young generation educated Arabs who are Israeli citizens. The internal and external dynamics in the 1990s are investigated in relation to their impact on the identity formation of young generation educated Arabs in Israel. The aspirations and demands of the case study group on the civic and national grounds are analyzed. The research topic is focused on the changing attitudes of the Arab community in Israel by taking into consideration of previous years but putting emphasis on the recent decade. The common ground among the highly educated Israeli-Arabs is analyzed by questioning citizenship and minority rights.
In-depth interviewing, observation and literature analysis were used as data collection techniques. Fieldwork has been done in Israel during the summer 2001. A qualitative study, using in-depth interviews with 9 selected educated young Arabs has been applied. All interviews were recorded, transcribed and the transcribed texts were used for discourse analysis. During the interviews political opinions, obstacles to powersharing and areas of discrimination, daily life, definition of national and civic identity, opinions on current issues throughout the world and in the region, education, language, culture and role as an educated group were inquired.
Findings indicate that young generation educated Arabs of Israel under the impact of two processes Israelization and Palestinization, are radical in their attitudes. On the one hand, the new generation intellectuals have more or less succeeded to integrate to the Israeli society, but on the other hand their awareness of their personal/social and collective identity as a Palestinian citizen of Israel is high. Increased civic and national aspects led to a shift in their identity definitions. In this sense, they carry the characteristics of the new political trend which claims recognition for Arabs collectively as a national minority within the Israeli system. They prefer to be called as Palestinians who are Israeli citizens.
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Walker, Luke. "William Blake in the 1960s : counterculture and radical reception." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/53244/.
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The study begins with an account of Blake, as voiced by Allen Ginsberg, taking part in a key Sixties anti-war protest, and goes on to examine some theoretical aspects of Blake's relationship with the Sixties. In Chapter One, I explore the relationship between ‘popular Blake', ‘academic Blake', and ‘countercultural Blake'. The chapter seeks to provide a revisionist account of the relationship between Blake's Sixties popularity and his earlier reception, suggesting that all three elements of Blake's Sixties reception – popular, academic and countercultural – have long been intertwined, and continue to interact in the Sixties themselves. In Chapters Two and Three, I focus in detail on Allen Ginsberg as a central figure not only in Blake's countercultural popularization, but also in the creation of Sixties counterculture itself. The first of these chapters, ‘Visionary Blake, Physical Blake, Psychedelic Blake', looks in detail at Ginsberg's 1948 ‘Blake vision' and the way Ginsberg later uses it to construct a Blakean narrative for the Sixties. I examine the significant differences between the versions of this event presented in Ginsberg's early poems and in his later prose and interview accounts, and Ginsberg's consequent attempts to develop a general theory of poetry in which the specific effects of Blake's poetry on the consciousness are compared to those of psychedelic drugs. Finally, I suggest that there are analogies between this ‘psychedelic' approach to Blake and the interest that Aldous Huxley had in using psychedelics to access Blake's own visionary state of consciousness. Chapter Three, ‘Ginsberg's Blakean Albion', analyses a selection of Ginsberg's poems, all linked to Blake's myth of Albion. I use these poems to examine the tensions present within the three-way relationship between Blake, Ginsberg and British counterculture. Particular attention is given to Ginsberg's poem ‘Wales Visitation' (1967), a work which I suggest is founded on the joint Romantic inheritance of Blake and Wordsworth, and which demonstrates the ways in which various strands of British Romanticism interact both within Ginsberg's poetry and within the broader Sixties counterculture. The final chapter of the study examines various aspects of the relationship between Blake and Bob Dylan, demonstrating the extent of Blake's influence on Dylan, but also tackling the surprisingly complicated and problematic question of the route(s) by which Blake arrives in Dylan's work.
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Powell, Jason A. "A Humble Protest: A Literary Generation's Quest for the Heroic Self, 1917 - 1930." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1218470232.
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Cernahoschi-Condurateanu, Raluca. "The political, the urban, and the cosmopolitan : the 1970s generation in Romanian-German poetry." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28009.
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This study is an introduction to the body of work produced by the German poets who were born during or after World War II in Romania and whose almost simultaneous debut lies in the relatively liberal period 1965 – 1971. Helped onto the Romanian-German literary scene by a propitious environment and informed by the socialist ideology they were born “into,” the poets born between 1942 and 1955 formed a remarkable generation unit which sought to significantly renew German-language literature in Romania. Rejecting identification with the insulary Romanian-German communities, the young poets strove to create a socially and politically relevant verse expressing an urban and cosmopolitan attitude. The growing nationalist rhetoric and isolationist stance of Romania's regime and the material and psychological hardships endured by its population through the 1970s and 80s forced the generation to revise its incipient enthusiasm for Romanian socialism. Increasingly, the poets' work came to depict the threatened existence of the German minority and the harsh general living conditions in Romania and to provide an alternative to the absurd official proclamations of a “golden age” under Ceauşescu, despite the poetry's growing reliance on obscuring literary techniques. The emigration of most of the generation members in the mid to late 1980s brought about the eventual unravelling of the generation unit and marks the end of my study.
By following the evolution of three themes – social and political engagement, the German minority, and the urban environment – which define the poets as a generation throughout their literary careers in Romania, the analysis illuminates not only the generation's development from identification with Romanian socialism and rejection of the German minority to criticism of the country's policies and a renewed interest in the fate of the German community but also the changing possibilities and limits of literary expression under communism. In addition to providing an introduction to the body of work created by the 1970s generation in Romania, the study also expands the understanding of German literature in the 20th century by providing new material on literature written under totalitarianism and of intercultural German literature.
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Tsang, Chung-kin. "Living with new capitalism work and values of the 1980s generation in Hong Kong /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/b40203438.
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Tsang, Chung-kin, and 曾仲堅. "Living with new capitalism: work and values of the 1980s generation in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B40203438.
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Hyland, Claire. "Don't fence us in! : perceptions of East Germanness among the 1970s generation in Berlin." Thesis, University of Bath, 2012. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.557806.
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This thesis explores how Germans born in the GDR during the 1970s engage with discourses about the east when discursively constructing their identities in contemporary unified Germany. Existing academic research into east Germanness has largely focused on the idea of a collective identity, and consists of two predominant lines of argument. The first suggests that eastern identities jeopardise German unity, implying that east Germanness cannot exist alongside Germanness. The second problematises the often negative representations of easterners in the popular sphere. Taking this discourse as its basis, however, it risks overlooking the ways that easterners themselves perceive the east. By taking a constructivist approach and adopting a qualitative, interpretive methodology, the thesis gains in-depth insights into the complex ways in which easterners themselves negotiate a sense of east Germanness. The research consists of twenty in-depth interviews which were designed around the theme of consumption, a social and discursive practice common to the GDR and unified Germany, but one which has changed dramatically since unification. The findings revealed that popular perceptions do indeed contribute to the participants’ understandings. However, they presented a more differentiated and complex picture of the east, which enabled them to construct a form of east Germanness which better fits their understandings. Importantly, it appears that these perceptions are not represented in current discourses. Using generation to identify themselves as a unique group, the participants distanced themselves from negative perceptions of the east and identified with positive attributes of both the east and west. This group view themselves as engaged members of a capitalist society, who not only identify as both German and east German, but perceive their socialist upbringings to benefit them in unified Germany. Importantly, the characteristics that they attach to their identities appear to be typical of western society. Using the label of the 1970s generation, they maintain a sense of east Germanness but paint a new picture of it which is contextualised within western norms and values.
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Bulgin, Sally Ann. "Situation and new generation : a study of non-figurative art in Britain during the 1960s." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407005.
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King, Alyson E. "The experience of the second generation of women students at Ontario universities, 1900-1930." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0007/NQ41191.pdf.
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Drabick, Christopher L. "The Way We Get By." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1369830067.
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Jin, Xiaotian, and 金小天. "A generation 'betwixt and between': youth, gender and modernity in 1920s and 30s middlebrow women's writing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45814934.
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Pearson, Stephen. "The 'Generation X' paradigm in Spanish culture of the 1990s (LuciÌa Etxebarria, Ray Loriga, JoseÌ AÌngel Mañas)." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.412831.
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Bellavia, Steven Robert. "Building Cold War Warriors: Socialization of the Final Cold War Generation." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu152293636915038.
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Lin, Chen-Yu. "Questions of Chineseness : a study of China wind pop music and the post-1990s generation in the PRC, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the UK." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2018. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3022813/.
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This thesis examines how ‘Chineseness’ is constructed in China Wind pop music, and how this practice is perceived by a post-1990s audience across Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and the United Kingdom. It will also investigate how China Wind pop music is presented and performed on various stages, such as the music reality TV show The Voice of China. Three main research methods are employed in the thesis: ethnography on music audiences and music industry workers; analysis of songs; and the production and screening of an ethnographic documentary. China Wind music has been popular since 2000, and was first popularised by Taiwanese Mandopop singers, gradually developing into a specific ‘sound’ distinguishable from other pop songs. Traditional Chinese music elements are employed to create a historically ‘authentic’ sonic product, while the lyrical content often involves praising traditional culture or the presentation of a sense of ‘Chinese pride’ in China Wind songs. This thesis focuses on two iconic songs, Wang Leehom’s ‘Heroes of the Earth’ (2005) and Jay Chou’s ‘Blue and White Porcelain’ (2007) to investigate the musical and textual devices employed, as well as their visual representation in music videos. Through four case studies in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and the UK, this thesis suggests that for different individuals and in various contexts, the construction and perception of Chineseness in popular music requires a multidimensional understanding since Chineseness can function like a chameleon-like resource for identity construction. The production and consumption of China Wind pop music is also an arena for numerous forms of nationalistic sentiment and aspiration, including official and popular nationalism. Chineseness in China Wind pop music is de-centred in its production location and can vary in its place of consumption. However, it may become increasingly re-centred as the growth of the PRC market enforces a particular presentation of Chinese culture. Uncovering micro-histories of those audience and industry workers engaged with China Wind pop music can help to conceptualise, challenge, deconstruct, and perhaps subvert the notion of Chineseness as a singular and unified conception.
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Ritchie, Harry. "Success stories : the making of the 1950s' generation in English literature and the early literary careers of Kingsley Amis, Colin Wilson and Alan Sillitoe." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327997.
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Shelton, Jeff Scott. "From College to Career: Understanding First Generation and Traditional Community College Transfer Students' Major and Career Choices." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1408.
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While the connection between major choice and career goals seems logically obvious, research exploring this process is limited, particularly concerning how socio-economic class, based on parents' educational levels, influences the choice process. An important initial step in understanding this larger process is to explore how SES-based differences affect the process of choosing a major, a career goal and the way in which students link their major to a possible career.
This study utilizes a comparative interview design to explore the lived experiences regarding major and career aspirations of first generation and traditional college seniors who have transferred from a community college to Portland State University. This study considers a first generation student to be any student that does not have a parent that has graduated from a four-year university in the United States. A traditional student is any student that has one or more parents who have earned at least a four-year degree in the U.S. Using a conceptual framework based on Pierre Bourdieu's work on social reproduction, this qualitative interview study examines how social and cultural capital as well as habitus influences first generation and traditional community college transfer students' choice of career, major and the link these students make between the two.
This research found that the majority of students, both first generation and traditional community college transfer students, gained domain specific information that helped them with their major and or career goals from mentors such as, professors and academic advisers. However, Traditional students received "life advice" and encouragement from family members and employers that helped them to stay on track and gain inside information regarding their career choices. Traditional students used their past and current work history to assist them in strengthening their chances at realizing their career goals. Many traditional students planned to use the degrees they earned at college to advance within fields they already were working in. In comparison, it was only after they started college and settled on specific majors that first generation students looked for work experiences to help explore possible occupational outcomes. Another major difference between the two groups of students was that traditional students linked their majors to multiple jobs in an occupational area while first generation students linked their major to specific occupational positions.
While there has been a large amount of research in the United States using Bourdieu's theory to examine how micro processes of language and teacher's expectations are utilized to maintain social stratification in K-12 education, there has been little research done on the micro processes that occur in college that lead to the reproduction of social class. This thesis illustrates how family background-based advantages that lead to differences in students' K-12 success actually continue after they enter higher education. By drawing attention to the importance of how family-background impacts major and career choices for community college transfer students after they arrive at the university, this thesis contributes to Bourdieu's explanation of how education at all levels contributes to the reproduction of a socially stratified society.
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Sargent, Jean Diana. "Poverty, growth and stagnation in North Indian agriculture : a comparative study in the political economy of poverty generation in western and eastern Uttar Pradesh in the early 1970s." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1991. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29021/.
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This thesis is based upon a comparative study of the processes generating rural poverty in the Western and Eastern Regions of the Northern Indian State of Uttar Pradesh round about 1970. For its theoretical underpinning the research uses a mode-of-production approach, characterising the poor Eastern Region as "semi-feudal" while the Western Region is viewed as exhibiting some significant "capitalist" elements. At an empirical level the control by different classes in the two regions of the most important means of production, i.e. land, irrigation and capital is examined, and its effect on output, productivity and incomes assessed within the structure of the different relations of production prevailing in each region. This permits the identification of the poor within the context of the respective class structures in each region and provides a framework within which to examine the dimensions of poverty in Western and Eastern UP. Sample survey data is used to assess both the extent and depth of poverty among the small cultivator and agricultural labourer population of the two regions. Whereas a vast class of poor tenant cultivators formed the bulk of the poor in the East, an indeed of the population of the region, poverty was largely associated with landlessness in the West and confined to a smaller percentage of the population. Detailed data on the consumption of foodstuffs and necessities is then used to construct estimates of the percentage of the population living below the "poverty line" in each region. The results reinforce the findings of the sample survey data and uphold the basic hypothesis of the thesis that the pattern and nature of poverty found in each region reflects the underlying class structure implicit in the different modes of production of Western and Eastern UP during the early 1970s.
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Zidonis, Jeffrey J. ""The Old White Sportswriters Didn't Know What to Think": Tradition vs. New Journalism in the New York Times's Coverage of Muhammad Ali, 1963-1971." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1542123659696673.
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Starr, Clinton Robert Davis Janet M. "Bohemian resonance the beat generation and urban countercultures in the United States during the late 1950s and early 1960s /." 2005. http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/1801/starrc50869.pdf.
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Starr, Clinton Robert. "Bohemian resonance: the beat generation and urban countercultures in the United States during the late 1950s and early 1960s." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1801.
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Tsai, Hsin-Lun, and 蔡欣倫. "New generation poets of Taiwan in early 1970s." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/w6cs22.
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碩士<br>國立中央大學<br>中國文學研究所<br>94<br>This thesis was focused on the poets, who are belongs to the new Taiwanese generation at the early 1970s, and their activities of poetry groups. The revolution of their poetry groups was studied by the analysis of external surroundings and their own internal characteristics. We also observed their “generation characters” and “social group characters”, and further estimated the value in the poetry history. Five poetry groups, which are Lung-Tsu(龍族), Chu-Liu(主流), Ta-Ti(大地), Hou-Lang(後浪), Pao-Feng-Yu(暴風雨), were sampled. We established the past group activities by the analysis of all poetry literatures, and also checked that again by the field work method.
The poets, who have different growing backgrounds and characteristics comparing with their predecessors, started to form an association and were against with those early predecessors at 1970s. But they were usually taken into “transition state” and ignored due to the short period of group activities. In this work, we investigated their theories and dug out their meanings in the history of poetry. We found that their ideology of “Taiwanese realism” will influence strongly the local culture in the controversy of local philology at the late 1970s. Furthermore, those poets might separate with each other due to the different cognition of history. That is because two concepts, “Chinese ideology” and “Taiwanese ideology”, needed to be clarified respectively. These two different concepts will lead to the differences of literary creations and the viewpoint of life. Then, those poetry groups stepped to the dismission. This “individual character” of each poet linked closely with the fortune of all poetry groups.
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Nelson, Elissa Helen. "Teen films of the 1980s : genre, new Hollywood, and generation X." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-2692.
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Teen films from the 1980s are a part of the zeitgeist, but there is very little we actually understand about how they can be qualified and defined, and about the phenomenon of their prolific production, box office success, and cultural relevance. Gaining greater insights about these issues is essential for recognizing the significance of a specific group of films and the ways they address concerns of how teens come of age, but is also important for learning about the films’ historical and industrial contexts of production. Asking the questions why these kinds of films, why at this time, and what do they mean, leads to an awareness and identification of the phenomenon, but additionally, these lines of inquiry explore how the films and their success are tied to changing Hollywood industrial conditions, and to the shifting political, economic, social, and cultural climate of the U.S. in the 1980s.
While previous scholars have studied the industrial context of production of teen films in the 1950s, and some have looked at the different types of films produced in the 1980s, the matter remains as to whether teen films actually constitute their own genre. Examining this question of genre is necessary for clarifying a number of issues: how the films relate to the culture at large; how representations of youth on screen can help us understand and reevaluate Generation X, the demographic group coming of age at the time; and how an assessment of these films contributes to a re-conceptualization of the ways films are produced, marketed, and categorized in the New Hollywood. Using primary data consisting of textual analysis and contextual analysis, and applying both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, the study builds on and adds to previous approaches to genre. The contributions of this research are multifaceted. By gaining insights about these films, we can begin to appreciate more fully a maligned generation, the changing landscape of the entertainment industry, and a cultural phenomenon.<br>text
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Yin, Yu Hsien, and 鄞毓嫻. "A Study On the American Youth Culture in 1950s---The Silent Generation." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96868417306225639713.
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碩士<br>淡江大學<br>美國研究所<br>92<br>Nearly fifty million Americans were born to the Silent Generation in America between 1925 and 1942. The Silent are the generational stuffings of a sandwich between the get-it-done G.I.s and the self-absorbed Boom. The Silent grew up as the suffocated children of war and <a href="http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=depression&v=56">depression</a>. They came of age too late to be war heroes and just too early to be youthful <a href="http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=free&v=56">free</a> spirits.
This generation were “withdrawn,cautious,indifferent, unimaginative, silent and undaventurous.” They face an intriguing paradox. On the one hand, outwardly they experience a <a href="http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=time&v=56">time</a> of tremendous optimism about the social order: likely a <a href="http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=time&v=56">time</a> of economic prosperity, social cooperation, and tremendous technological progress. On the other hand, they often feel as if they were “born too late” to emulate the “great deeds” of their next-elders, and feel relegated to an “also-ran” role in which they can, at best, be maintainers of a social system they did not build.
The main purpose of this study was to analyze the factors that make the American youth silent. The structures of thesis as follows:Chapter one is the introduction in this study. Chapter two describes the background and the history of the 1950s. Chapter three analyzes the political factors that make the American youth in 1950s silent. Chapter four analyzes the economic factors that make the American youth silent. Chapter five analyze the social factors. Chapter six is the conclusion.
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Chang, Chun-Kai, and 張鈞凱. "Generation and Era: The Defending Diaoyutai Movement and NTU Student Activism in 1970s Taiwan." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05862039882333394409.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>政治學研究所<br>100<br>The 1960s saw student activism globally that challenged established political, social, and cultural systems. A younger generation engaged in public affairs became an important force that changed politics and culture of the postwar world. This thesis examines the Defending Diaoyutai Movement and student activism of National Taiwan University (NTU) that occurred at the beginning of the 1970s, a critical decade in the postwar history of Taiwan. It analyzes the development and nature of this movement and its impact on Taiwan’s politics and culture.
The thesis examines the NTU Defending Diaoyutai Movement and student activism by comparing it with their counterparts in other places in the world. Drawing on Karl Mannheim’s generational theory, it focuses not only on the objective generational background of the young intellectuals and college students involved in the Movement and related activities but also on their subjective identities and worldview. The thesis investigates how major political events created a powerful impact on these members of the postwar generation and how their particular identities and worldview were related to their public actions. A variety of student publications, written records, memories, and suchlike were analyzed in order to analyze their agency and actions and the dynamics of the Movement.
Chapter Two to Chapter Five examine, respectively, the early Self-Awareness Movement, the Defending Diaoyutai Movement, the call for political reform, and the Social Service Movement. The analysis of the thesis on their relationship shows that, first of all, the NTU students who initiated the Defending Diaoyutai Movement had strong patriotism and that their historical narrative was informed with Chinese nationalism. Secondly, the Movement was led by students but it was controlled by the KMT authority. It was the outcome of compromises between the students and the authority. Thirdly, the participants included both those of local Taiwanese background and those of Mainlander background. During the period of the Movement, many participants began to develop their strong faith in democracy and a particular concern with Taiwan instead of a greater China. Some activist students also developed their belief in left-wing ideals and became highly concerned with socially marginalized groups as well as the compatriots under the rule of communist China. They attacked the oppression caused by imperialism and capitalism and emphasized the importance of equality.
The thesis points out several importat structural factors that facilitated the emergence of student activism shared by many places of the world in the 1960s and 1970s Taiwan. It was the time when baby boomers reached maturity and thus the higher education developed rapidly. As a result, university campus became an important place where students could develope their collective identity and worked together. In the conservative political atmosphere of the Cold War, students were affected by many critical writers’ works and thoughts because of their involvement in a variety of student organizations. However, the thesis indicates that two characteristics of the Movement. First, the challenge it posed to the KMT government was relatively moderate. To the students, the ruling authority was not the target of their criticism but their collaborative partner. Secondly, influenced by the traditional Confucian ideals and values, the students were both loyalist and critic. Therefore, the Movement can be said to be a major act of the younger generation informed by patriotism, nationalism, and Confucian moral values.
The students involved in the Movement were postwar baby boomers, who shared similar experiences of growing under the KMT and the dramatic political change in the early 1970s, in Mannheim’s term, constituted part of a “generation as actuality.” They transformed from members of a “generation in-itself” to those of a “generation for-itself” (or “strategic generation”) through the mechanism of “conscientization” as a result of the impact of traumatic events. The process of their conscientization could be traced back to the Self-Awareness Movement that occurred in the late 1960s and emphasized individual awakening and morality. By contrast, the Diaoyutai sovereignty dispute and the subsequent diplomatic failures, helped the NTU students shift from individual awakening and morality to critique on existing political and power structure and their previous generation. It has to be noted that the members of the generation as actuality had different views of the socio-political reality and different strategies of actions. Some even sought support by or cooperation with their previous generation which brought about little intergenerational conflict. Others rejected the previous generation’s values and norms. Their criticism and challenge, however, were still moderate.
Although the Defending Diaoyutai Movement and student activism were suppressed as a result of the personal purge of the NTU Department of Philosophy in 1974, the students tried to carry out their ideals by promoting activities of investigating the life reality of socially marginalized groups. Their actions inspired those who played an important role in the political and cultural changes in 1970s and 1980s Taiwan.
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HU, HUEI-JHU, and 許惠珠. "The Images of Female Characters Between Different Generations from 1930 to 2012." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08125610170569202247.
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碩士<br>大葉大學<br>設計暨藝術學院碩士在職專班<br>101<br>My thesis arise from the insight into my own life path, taking three different
generations and the transition between roles as the theme. By displaying the different
countenances of the elder, the middle age, and the youth, the transition of roles and
value, I not only try to probe into the turning of the time wheels from 1930 to 2012
among the society in Taiwan, but also try to construct the internal spirit of life and the
course of culture change between generations by analysis and creation. My study also
seek the assistant from the masterpieces based on the “three generations” made by
western masters, trying to make a glimpse into how the artists interpreted the key
subject .
The thesis is subdivided into six chapters. The first chapter contains the
motivation, aim, the method and the scope of my study. The second chapter covers the
discussion of documents and references, investigating and understanding the three
masters: Jean Francois Millet, Edvard Munch, Frida Kahlo and their works about the
“three generations”. The third chapter is based on scientific theories, trying to explore
the uprising of feminism and the significance of motherhood. The fourth chapter talks
about my creation concept, taking the stories of my mother, myself, and my daughter
as a blueprint. The three major topic: appearance and role, spirit and intrinsic value,
and the legacy and change are displayed by using different kinds of materials and in
different fashions. The fifth chapter then makes a description of my pieces in a series
based on the three major topics. The last chapter is the conclusion, illustrating the
summary and reflections about the thesis and my works.
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Neufeld, Valerie. "Generational perspectives on the changing role of women : women of the 1950s speak out." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3701.
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The transformed role expectations of women between the 1940's to the 1970's held a great deal of significance in affecting women's lives. During this time, expectations of women changed. The image of the "happy homemaker" with aspirations based on the virtues of femininity was negated and a movement towards an image of women with careers, who were also partners and mothers emerged. The question this project examined was the impact this change in socially prescribed behaviour for women may have had on those women who became homemakers after the new expectations of women emerged and evolved. Grounded Theory, a theory supportive to the canons of feminist research methodology was used. Data was gathered through nine interviews with women who were homemakers in the 1950's and 1960's and who continue to be such. Data analysis resulted in the identification of the process by which these individuals patterned their lives. The attitudes of the dominant society surrounding them were highlighted as well. Four major components were identified: 1. Knowledge is power; power is knowledge, 2. Ideas are maintained in a social context, 3.Knowledge is conceived subjectively, but is perceived as objective, and 4. The marginalization of contrary perspectives. These four components provided an explanation as to the circumstances in which these women made their life choices as well as how and why they held onto these convictions, despite the changing social expectations surrounding them.
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Mosupyoe, Sebilaro Sybil Lebogang Ntshole. "Generational differences in South African consumers' brand equity perceptions." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/41244.
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South Africa has undergone profound political and social transformations since 1990.
These changes influenced the perceptions of individuals in Generations X and Y. In South
Africa, the members of Generation X experienced their formative years during the
transitional years of South Africa’s young democracy during the 1990s, while the members
of Generation Y were born during the last decade of apartheid. For the purpose of this
study Generation X was classified as those consumers who were born in the period of
1961 to 1981, while Generation Y was born in the period of 1982 to 1994. Generation Y
would recall the release of Nelson Mandela from prison and the political transition in the
country.
The study focused on generational cohorts instead of generations. Generational cohorts
are distinct from generations as they are defined according to their transition from
childhood to adulthood. A generation on the other hand is defined by its year of birth.
This study investigated possible differences in the brand equity perceptions of South
African consumers in Generations X and Y. It generated insights regarding generational
differences in consumers’ perceptions of four specific brand equity dimensions, namely brand awareness, brand associations, perceived quality and brand loyalty. Equally
important was a comprehensive understanding of how consumers in Generations X and Y
differed with regard to the aforementioned four consumer-based brand equity (CBBE)
dimensions when making a purchase decision regarding electronic consumer goods,
particularly a television set. Consequently, this study extended the existing knowledge of
consumer behaviour and CBBE by investigating pertinent perceptual differences between
Generations X and Y.
A mall intercept survey using a self-completion questionnaire was used to gather
quantitative data from 223 respondents in Generations X and Y who purchased or were
exposed to television sets.
A demographic profile of the respondents who participated in the study indicates that 67 of
the 114 respondents in Generation X (i.e., 53.2%) were males, compared to 59 of 108
respondents in Generation Y (i.e., 46.8%). The majority of respondents in both
Generations X and Y had a diploma as their highest qualification. The Generation X
sample contained a higher proportion of African respondents (i.e.,59.5%) compared to the
Generation Y sample (i.e., 40.5%). The income profile suggested that there were distinct
differences in terms of net monthly household income between respondents from the two
generations. Serveral exploratory factor analysis (EFA) were conducted in which the Likert scale
statements in question 3 to 6 (see Appendix A p.170-174) measuring different subdimensions
of consumer-based brand equity dimensions were subjected to a principal
components analysis (PCA) with varimax rotation. The results of the final EFA analysis
involved 17 Likert scale items. The PCA revealed four factors (components). These
components were brand associations in terms of product quality and value, brand
awareness, brand loyalty and brand associations in terms of product manufacturer.
Further statistical analysis was conducted based on the four components to test for
significant mean differences. The non-parametric test, Mann-Whitney U Test, was
conducted. The results confirmed the alternative hypothesis that, there are significant
differences between Generation X and Y with regard to their perceptions of brand loyalty.
The implications of the findings of the study, to marketing practitioners and brand managers is that they need to understand the type of association Generation X and Y
have regarding their brands for effective and strategic planning in order to remain
competitive. In addition to that, Generation X’s perception of quality does not differ
significantly to that of Generation Y, thus it will be beneficial for practitioners to develop
unique quality features. Consequently, they must intensify awareness around their brands.<br>Dissertation (MConsumer Science)--University of Pretoria, 2014.<br>gm2014<br>Marketing Management<br>unrestricted
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Chang, Hsin-Fen. "Living in "Chicken Cage" : a narrative inquiry into cross-generational Taiwanese experiences in learning and teaching from the 1930s to the present /." 2007. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=510525&T=F.
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Ledvina, Josef. "Postmoderna v Čechách: Teorie v praxi/Praxe v teorii." Doctoral thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-408099.
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The thesis deals with Czech art of the 1980s and with the way it was at its own time reflected in relation to the concept of postmodernism. As a widely discussed topic postmodernism enters Czech art scene in the middle of the 80s. At that time key texts were written (primarily by Jana and Jiří Ševčíks and Ludvík Hlaváček) and first unofficial exhibitions of students of Prague art academies known as Confrontations took place. "New painting" or "new art" was interpreted and perceived as an expression or manifestation of the ethical, political and life attitudes of the "postmodern generation". In this context generational theatrical, musical and performative activities were of particular importance (theatre ensembles of Pražská pětka, musical performances of Vladimír Skrepl and Martin John at the openings of their exhibitions, Vaclav Stratil's, Margita Titlova Ylovsky's and Vladimír Merta's band Apage Satanas and others). The thesis discuses some shared attributes of postmodern "mood" and in this broad framework interprets work of some particular artists (Martin John, Vladimír Skrepl, František Skála, Martin Mainer, Jiří Kovanda, Margita Titlová Ylovsky, Jiří Surůvka and others).