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Fowler, Bridget. "Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture : critical investigations." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1995. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5022/.

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The first part of this thesis is concerned with the exegesis of Bourdieu's theory and the second part with critical investigations of his cultural analysis. In the interpretative analysis, I shall show that it is only through an understanding of his work as a whole that it is possible to grasp his now famous work on cultural reception. In our societies, the certified knowledge of professors and the consecrated representations of Tate Gallery artists serve to underpin the world through convincing the dominated of the intellectual poverty of their challenges. Moreover, I shall show that there is a stimulating and rich tension in Bourdieu's sociology, particularly in his explorations of how economic interests are culturally legitimated. Bourdieu is a classic historical materialist, yet one who denies some of the abstractions of sate orthodoxies. This means that - in the interests of truth - his theory forces the squabbling protagonists of different traditions to live together. Bourdieu has an impressive reassessment of the logic of a minortty elite culture in which art is hijacked to fit purposes often remote from the internal meanings of the texts themselves. In the second part of the thesis, it is argued that Bourdieu's sociology of culture has not entirely extricated itself from these same ideological tentacles. Firstly, in the case of Impressionism he overemphasises its character as a rupture in techniques and has not been sufficiently attuned to its dependence on popular subjects and popular sources. Secondly in the case of middlebrow and popular literature, it is suggested that he has failed to describe adequately the nature of the popular cultural field and has also neglected the character of the cultural marginalisation of women. Finally, a study of literary consumption in Scotland challenges Bourdieu's conclusions at some points. By considering these specific substantive areas, I hope to stimulate a Bourdieusian approach.
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Giulianotti, Richard. "A sociology of Scottish football fan culture." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1996. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=115964.

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While football is legitimately regarded as the ultimate global game, its significance to Scotland is even more exaggerated, in historical, social and cultural terms. Scots were at the forefront of 'globalising' the sport, teaching the English and other foreigners to play a highly technical and 'passing' game, only to abandon this later with characteristic complacency. Within Scotland, 'the only game' has provided its inhabitants with a cultural obsession, in which sectarian, regional and national animosities and inequalities may be contested and unsatisfactorily resolved. Consequently, the Scots are credited with gifting the world the phenomenon of 'football hooliganism', primarily at domestic club level, although the authorities latterly claim to have 'solved' such fan disorder. Upon the national stage, some argue football's social and political impacts have been markedly more pernicious, in being a dubious receptacle for the tartan-coated 'sub-nationalism' of a nation still denied a protective State. Therefore, this thesis examines the culture of these two particular, polarised categories of Scottish football fans, namely the contemporary hooligans (the 'soccer casuals') and the national team's supporters (the carnival or ambassadorial 'Tartan Army'). The thesis draws heavily upon qualitative fieldwork with these supporter groups, undertaken over the course of five years (1990-1994). To achieve this, the thesis is divided into three parts. The first part contextualises the discussion, by looking at previous explanations of football hooliganism and the extent to which these fit with initial evidence from the opposing, Scottish fan cultures. The second and third parts then introduce sustained fieldwork and analyses of these supporter groups.
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Solms-Laubach, Franz. "Towards a sociology of culture : on Nietzsche and early German and Austrian sociology." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270390.

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Baker, Joseph O. "Sasquatch: Cultural Mythology Meets the Culture of Science." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/488.

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Yeranossian, Tzovinar. "Changing Countries, Changing Cultures : A Qualitative Study of Cultural Change After Migration." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-322920.

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In a time of globalization and multiculturalism, the discourses on migration and social issues have become increasingly focused on culture. Although cultural changes are considered an important part of integration processes, there is uncertainty about what these changes actually are, and how they come about. The purpose of this study is to examine how migrants define and experience culture and cultural changes, and how they construct these changes. Starting from an elaborated version of Ann Swidler’s concept of culture as a toolkit, and through interviews with 19 people who have migrated to Sweden, the study shows that people experience culture as permeating all aspects of their life, intimately linked to their social lives. They also actively use culture as a tool to negotiate between cultural preservation, and integration into a new society. In the process of cultural changes, culture is both the subject of change, and the method for their construction.
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Lizardo, Omar. "Globalization, World Culture And The Sociology Of Taste: Patterns Of Cultural Choice In Cross-National Perspective." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193871.

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In this dissertation, I examine the link between culture consumption and globalization. The first two chapters outline the contemporary state of the theoretical field, showing it to be primarily dominated by a macrolevel perspective--the media imperialism thesis--which has recently come under increasing empirical challenge and a theoretical stance at the micro level--the cultural capital paradigm--that does not have the explanatory resources to account for transnational trends towards convergence in the cultural stratification systems of Western societies. Chapter 2 begins the task of theoretical reconstruction by proposing a synthetic "sociostructural" account as an alternative to the media imperialism thesis and an extension of the cultural capital paradigm that incorporates an institutionalist emphasis on how global cultural templates affect individual consumption patterns. In the empirical component of the dissertation I examine the implications of taking institutional theory and the sociostructural approach seriously for the study of culture consumption and taste in contemporary societies. In Chapter 3 I demonstrate, using recently compiled data on cross-national patterns of culture consumption and trade, that in comparison to the media imperialism paradigm, the sociostructural model is best able to account for most of the empirical patterns observed. In chapter 4 I apply the institutionalist framework developed in chapter 2 to examine the connection between patterns of cultural taste and certain forms of subjective geographic identification consonant with a growing "world culture". In chapter 5 I evaluate several claims regarding determinants of "broadening tastes" in modern polities using data from 15 European Union countries, extending the agenda developed in chapters 2 and 4 to a cross-national context. Finally, in chapter 6 I expand the scope of the cross-national analysis by examining the global and institutional correlates of aggregate musical consumption and demand for cultural goods in 72 countries. These empirical chapters serve to advance theory and research on the behavioral and ideational consequences of cultural globalization, using new cross-national data sources and innovative statistical methods. They highlight the connection between local forms of cultural practice, transnational networks of cultural exchange and patterns of connectivity into the networks and flows of the global system.
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Javan, Jafari Bojnordi Abdolreza. "Religion, culture and punishment : rethinking the sociology of punishment." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.479134.

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NEVES, FAGNER HENRIQUE GUEDES. "KNOWLEDGE, SCHOOL AND CULTURE: SOCIOLOGY TEACHING AND INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2014. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=24416@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
Este trabalho situa-se na confluência entre conhecimento, educação escolar, ensino de Sociologia e interculturalidade, um diálogo pouco explorado pela pesquisa educacional brasileira. Tendo como referenciais os estudos interculturais de Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Vera Maria Candau e Antônio Flávio Moreira, busca-se discutir como os professores de Sociologia lotados na escola básica compreendem as possibilidades de debates entre o saber sociológico escolar e a educação intercultural. Neste empreendimento, dois objetivos são visados: (1) identificar as representações de professores de Sociologia de escolas públicas de Niterói sobre as relações entre o conhecimento sociológico escolar vigente na escola básica brasileira e a proposta da educação intercultural e a (2) problematizar possibilidades de construção de currículos escolares sociológicos interculturalmente orientados no contexto de escolas da rede pública. Para tanto, foram desenvolvidas entrevistas individuais semiestruturadas com onze sujeitos licenciados em Ciências Sociais e atuantes no magistério estadual de Sociologia há pelo menos dois anos. Foram também analisados documentos curriculares oficiais voltados ao ensino médio e à disciplina de Sociologia. Mediante a articulação entre os dados obtidos através desses procedimentos e os referenciais teórico-conceituais enunciados, foi possível obter significativos achados. A despeito de diversas proposições favoráveis à educação intercultural nos documentos curriculares analisados, esta ainda é escassamente promovida na seleção de conteúdos e no desenvolvimento de práticas pedagógicas no ensino básico de Sociologia, conforme relatam os sujeitos da pesquisa. Nesse cenário, a construção intercultural do conhecimento sociológico escolar é uma meta a se cumprir, repleta de desafios a serem enfrentados pelo sistema escolar e os educadores.
This work approaches an unusual discussion in the Brazilian educational research, involving knowledge, school education, Sociology teaching, and interculturalism. Specifically, the work focuses the public high-school Sociology teachers opinions about the dialogues between the Sociology knowledge and the project of the intercultural education, considering the conceptions from Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Vera Maria Candau, and Antônio Flávio Moreira. There are two research goals: (1) to identify the high-school Sociology-teachers representations about the Sociology knowledge which is normally taught at the Brazilian Schools and its relationships with the intercultural education; (2) to propose some possibilities of creating Sociology public high-schools curricula under the intercultural concepts. Semi-structured interviews with eleven Social Sciences licensed-teachers who have been working at public high-schools in Niterói City (State of Rio de Janeiro) for at least two years were made. In addition, the official curricula documents concerning Sociology teaching and high-school education were analyzed. Linking the achieved data with the theoretical references, some important results were found. Although the analyzed documents point many propositions around the intercultural constitution of the Sociology teaching, content choices and the pedagogical practices are not usually affected by the intercultural education. At this scenery, building a high-school Sociology teaching under intercultural ideas remains as a non-reached goal, which is plenty of challenges to be faced by the educators.
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Raj, Dhooleka Sarhadi. "Shifting culture in the global terrain : cultural identity constructions amongst British Punjabi Hindus." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273054.

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Atkinson, Colin. "Beyond cop culture : the cultural challenge of civilian intelligence analysis in Scottish policing." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4662/.

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The central contention of this thesis, and its original contribution to the subject area, is that the recent development of civilian intelligence analysis in Scottish policing presents a challenge to an otherwise hegemonic ‘cop culture’ in police intelligence work. In advancing this argument this thesis develops the existing literature by recognising that academic research to date on ‘police culture’ has focused almost exclusively on the cultures of sworn police officers, and particularly those ‘cops’ engaged in ‘frontline’ policing. Civilian police staff groups have been excluded from existing cultural accounts, despite their long-established position in many police forces, particularly those in Scotland. Drawing upon five years of qualitative sociological fieldwork, and taking inspiration from the theory and research of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, this thesis highlights how civilian intelligence analysts – as office-based, young, predominantly female and embodying a new ‘academic’ knowledge that is divorced from experience – have become increasingly essential to the effective functioning of intelligence-led policing. The integration of civilian intelligence analysis into police intelligence work in Scotland, however, is inhibited by the persistent hegemony of a cop culture that privileges masculinity, physicality, solidarity, cynicism and, above all, the experiential knowledge that the ‘crime-fighting’ cop has gained from policing ‘the streets’. The cultural challenge of civilian intelligence analysis, emerging from within wider processes of civilianisation and pluralisation, has provoked a patriarchal response from police officers. This response is characterised by masculine domination and the exertion of symbolic violence within the wider ideological construction of the ‘police family’. This patriarchal response has also contributed to the infantilisation of the intelligence analyst in Scottish policing, as a concomitant form of cultural control. The interplay of these processes of cultural challenge and control contributes to a phenomenon of cultural dissonance – a sense of difference, discord and disharmony – between police officers and intelligence analysts. This cultural dissonance is sustained in everyday practice through the perpetuation and persistence of a ‘them and us’ culture between these groups. This thesis concludes by exploring the future of intelligence analysis in the context of profound and on-going organisational reform, and in doing so identifies recent processes of de-civilianisation in Scottish policing. Although intelligence analysis has remained relatively insulated from de-civilianisation to date, fieldwork disclosed how there has emerged disquiet about the potential diversification of the intelligence analyst role and concern for the future position of the intelligence analyst in Scottish policing as it enters a new phase in its distinctive development.
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Thomas, Helen. "Dance, modernity and culture : explorations in the sociology of dance /." London ; New York : Routledge, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37459079h.

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Inglis, Anthony Ian. "'Burning matches, lifting latches' : sociology, popular culture and the Beatles." Thesis, Online version, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.490588.

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Mark, Noah 1971. "Culture and competition: A critical test of homophily and distinction explanations for cultural niches." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282706.

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Why do different kinds of people like different kinds of culture? I examine two answers to this question: the homophily model and the distinction model. These models are alternative explanations for the finding that different cultural tastes and practices are concentrated within different sociodemographic segments of society. To determine which model is the preferred explanation, I identify conflicting predictions generated by the models. The models imply different ecological processes. The homophily model predicts that cultural forms compete with each other for people: People are a scarce resource on which cultural forms depend; cultural forms are not a scarce resource for people. The distinction model predicts a dual ecology: Cultural forms compete with each other for people, and people compete with each other for cultural forms. Empirical tests with 1993 General Social Survey data support the homophily model and disconfirm the distinction model.
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Li, Chuang (Austin). "China's skateboarding youth culture as an emerging cultural industry." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2018. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/34372.

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This thesis focuses on the skateboarding industry in China as both a youth subculture and a cultural industry. I am investigating the transition between the two and examining how the emerging skateboarding industry operates through detailed analysis of the feelings, motivations and meanings attributed to it by its participants and the emerging strata of cultural workers. In order to achieve this research objective, this thesis has positioned the analysis in a triangle of forces between the development of Chinese skateboarding culture, the emerging skateboarding cultural industry and government interventions. This ethnographic study takes into account distinctive characters in the development of Chinese skateboarding communities that signify continuities inside contemporary Chinese youth cultures. I argue that such continuity is still embedded in the organisation of the Chinese skateboarding industry as a cultural industry, in both subcultural and corporate entrepreneurial practices. Moreover, this thesis contributes to ongoing discussions in the field of not only cultural studies but also of the political economic analysis of cultural/creative industries by examining the dynamic incorporations at play between the commercial and governmental forces at the centre of current debate around the inclusion of skateboarding in the Olympic Games, and the consequences of the sportisation of skateboarding in mainstream economic structures. Last but not least, this research captures the working conditions of the cultural labourers who are at the forefront of shaping and reshaping the Chinese skateboarding industry.
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Glăveanu, Vlad Petre. "Creativity and culture : towards a cultural psychology of creativity in folk art." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/415/.

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The present thesis aims to explore creativity as representation, action and cultural participation in the context of a traditional folk art. It develops a cultural psychological approach to the phenomenon, one that considers creativity situated between creators, creations, audiences, and a complex background of norms and beliefs. A tetradic framework is thus formulated trying to capture the dynamic between self and other, “new” and “old” in creative production and in particular their inter-relation through processes of integration, externalisation, internalisation and social interaction. This model guided the research design, starting from the three main questions of the thesis: how people attribute creative value to the craft, what makes the activity of decoration creative and how children’s engagement with this practice develops during ontogenesis. The folk art chosen for this study is Easter egg decoration in two socio-cultural milieus in Romania, the urban setting of Bucharest and the village of Ciocăneşti. This craft was selected for its rich symbolism and polyphony of practices that situate it at the intersection between folklore, religion, art and a growing market. In this context, the first research included in the thesis investigates patterns of creativity evaluation in the case of ethnographers, priests, art teachers and folk artists and highlights their relation to the practices and beliefs particular for each of these groups. The second study uses a pragmatist-inspired model to analyse creative action in the case of decorators from the urban and rural setting and outlines the general stages and micro-genetic aspects of creativity specific for both contexts. Finally, the last piece of research considers creativity development in the two settings above as shaped by different practices of socialisation and enculturation. In the end, reflections are offered on the general conception of egg decoration as mastery in ways that bring to the fore the interdependence between tradition and creativity and suggest the existence of habitual forms of creative expression.
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Orejuela, Fernando. "The body as cultural artifact performing the body in bodybuilding culture /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3161795.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2005.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0290. Adviser: Richard Bauman. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 11, 2006).
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Lukic, Manuela. "Att ha en tvådimensionell identitet : En kvalitativ studie om invandrarungdomars upplevelser av att eventuellt leva med två olika kulturella identiteter." Thesis, Mälardalen University, Department of Social Sciences, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-198.

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Huvudfrågeställningen för uppsatsen är hur invandrarungdomar upplever och hanterar sin livssituation i de två kulturella världar de eventuellt lever i, den ursprungliga och den svenska kulturen? Undersökningen är utförd kvalitativt och baseras på fem intervjuer. De intervjuade har haft sin primära socialisation i hemlandet och under tidig ålder flyttat till Sverige. Teoretiskt utgår uppsatsen från Berger & Luckman, Jenkins, Ålund och Deniz vilka med sina skilda teorier förklarar varför identitetsprocessen och tillhörigheten är komplexfyllda för invandrarungdomar. Tidigare forskning har visat att invandrarungdomar upplever skilda problem i sin vardag därför att de lever i utkanten av två skilda kulturer. Sammanfattningsvis resulterar respondenters livssituation i en förening, en balans mellan två kulturer och identiteter som är i ständigt behov av upprätthållning.

Keywords: identity, etnicity, culture.

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Curl, Heather D. "The "ongoing culture shock" of upward mobility| Cultural capital, symbolic violence and implications for family relationships." Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3594289.

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Social mobility is often viewed as a way to alleviate poverty and create equality; it represents the basis upon which the United States is viewed as a meritocratic nation of opportunity. Missing from this persistent narrative, however, is analysis of the actual experience of social mobility. This qualitative study explores the narratives of individuals as they reflect on their experiences of upward mobility through education. Data include in-depth interviews with 25 individuals with an advanced degree whose parents did not attend college, and 10 individuals who have an advanced degree similar to their parents. This study considers three dimensions of cultural capital—embodied cultural capital associated with how individuals present themselves, linguistic cultural capital associated with how individuals speak and communicate and cultural capital related to taste, beliefs and knowledge, associated with individual’s leisure time choices, food and drink preferences and beliefs about the world. Across data, mobile individuals express the expectation or need to take on the cultural practices and behavior of their new class context. Data suggest that the process through which upwardly mobile individuals experience shifts in culture is more complex than currently conceived. In addition, these changes in culture can lead to internal conflict and difficulty in connection with families of origin; representing the potential costs of upward mobility. Implications include an amendment to cultural mobility research and to current strategies in urban education which position cultural capital as a character trait that can be learned or taken up by individuals.

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Borchi, Alice. "Culture and economic crisis : cultural value in Italy from 2008 to the present day." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/108584/.

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This doctoral work is based on analysis of the discourse on cultural value in contemporary Italy, what are the 'grand narratives' that characterize this discourse and what is the relationship between them. In particular, great relevance is given to the concepts of “neoliberalism” and “commons”. The application of these two economical terms to the field of culture is particularly relevant in the Italian discourse: in 2011, Italy saw the rise of protest groups made of professionals from the arts sector who opposed practices influenced by the theories on the commons to the implementation of neoliberal-inspired policies. In fact, since the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008, the discontent of the Italian population with the implementation of austerity policies and the lack of political and economic stability caused an uprising involvement in political activism. The cultural sector, in particular, was facing a lack of state funding; in addition, many young professionals had been struggling to find a paid job, especially in the theatre sector. The dissatisfaction of the emergent creative class led to a series of demonstrations and campaigns that asked for the recognition of the rights of arts workers. Many abandoned buildings, especially former theatres, were occupied and became spaces dedicated to artistic and political experimentation. Two of these organisations are discussed in the case studies: Teatro Valle Occupato, in Rome, and Rebeldía, in Pisa. The idea of cultural value promoted by these organisations is analysed in relation to the one reflected by Italian cultural policy after 2008. This thesis shows not only how cultural value is shaped by economic factors such as austerity, but also how it represents a battleground where different ways of understanding politics and policy clash, mingle and sometimes overlap. Furthermore, it shows that activist forms of arts management can develop their own pathways to innovation, filling a vacuum left by cultural policy.
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Thomas, Helen. "Movement, modernism and contemporary culture : issues for a critical sociology of dance." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.308268.

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Grieves, James. "Popular culture and public order : an empirical investigation into socio-cultural relationships in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne." Thesis, Durham University, 1985. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7481/.

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This thesis is about the relationship between popular cultures and public order. Although it is located in a particular setting for good sound empirical reasons, the analysis could just as easily have been about any urban setting. I chose the words public order since they seemed to describe best the process by which urban public space has come to carry a vocabulary or rules and expectations which the inhabitants are supposed to acknowledge in their routine everyday encounters and interactions. What I have tried to illustrate is that the orderliness of public life is permeated with specific assumptions about how people should behave in public; about what is considered to be respectable, moral, decent, profane or depraved. I therefore take as a starting point the fact that the assumptions which underlie public order are not the product of society 'per se' but of specific social groups such as architects, planners and politicians. The assumptions which lie behind public order are, of course, ideological and quite clearly fused with political strategies designed to elicit a "civilised" and "cultured" population. Consequently, if urban "civilization" was founded on the belief that the good, moral, order was shaped by the physical setting or environment then Culture came to describe the process through which people had to pass in order to enter the terrain of the cultivated. From the perspective of the sociology of culture the word "culture" is an analytical metaphor for understanding social process: for describing, delineating, and interpreting what it is that people actually do when they communicate to one another. Seen this way popular culture implies culture "of the people" and "by the people" but definitely not "for the people". Popular culture, then, is the. process by which people themselves construct social space and thereby imprint meaning, purpose, value, etc., on actions, symbols and intentions.
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Ferguson, Roderick A. "Specters of the sexual : race, sociology, and the conflict over African-American culture /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9987541.

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Bennett, James Andrew. "Popular styles, local interpretations : rethinking the sociology of youth culture and popular music." Thesis, Durham University, 1996. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1570/.

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Edgar, A. R. "A critical study of the sociology of culture and aesthetics of T.W. Adorno." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233111.

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Jaques, David W. "Investigating Culture| A Qualitative Study of a Human Service Organization?s Culture." Thesis, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3630080.

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Although there are many organizational culture studies that have been conducted, very few have been conducted in the context of a human service organization (Jaskyte, 2010). Organizational culture has been described as a neglected area of exploration as it relates to the enhancement of quality of life for persons with disabilities (Gillet & Stenfert-Kroese, 2003).

This research took the form of a qualitative case study of the culture of one human service organization. This study may make three specific contributions to the organizational culture literature. These include: (a) providing an empirical study of a human service organization's culture, (b) attempting to describe and understand specific mechanisms that may contribute to culture formation and maintenance, and (c) identifying aspects of a human service organizations culture that may help or hinder their effectiveness. Fourteen participants were be engaged in the research. The participants were associated with three different position levels.

The participating organization presented a strong and unified culture. The espoused theories and the theories-in-use of the organization's founders were highly congruent. The founders of the organization conveyed a sense of mission that was readily adopted by initial hires. The mission of the organization was formulated around principles of highly individualized support, community inclusion, quality of life, and a consistent regard for the dignity and respect of the individuals supported by the organization. Potential contributions of this research include: (a) being one of the few qualitative studies related to the culture of an organization that provides services for persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD); (b) a research design that provides a relatively comprehensive approach to the study of a single organizational culture; (c) a rich account of how human service workers, from multiple position levels, experience their culture; (d) a preliminary analysis of how leadership may influence culture in the context of a human service environment, and (e) an exploratory investigation as it relates to discovering additional approaches that may assist in evaluating the relationship between culture and organizational effectiveness. The following is a listing of potential future directions for research related to this type of study: (a) a replication of this study, or an approximation thereof, with one or more human service organizations; (b) additional research related to the congruence of, or lack thereof, between espoused theories and theories-in-use held by staff members of human service organizations; (c) the development of mixed methods approaches (quantitative/qualitative) to assessing and measuring congruence between espoused theories and theories-in-use; (d) the relationship between specific types of organizational cultures and effectiveness as it relates to supporting persons intellectual/developmental disabilities and perhaps more specifically, challenging behavior; and (e) research related to various leadership models and behavior as it relates to culture formation in human service organizations.

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Walker, Neil. "Police culture and organisation." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1991. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23772.

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The British police has become a more controversial institution over the last 30 years, during which period the interest of social scientists in the nature of policing has intensified accordingly. As knowledge has accumulated, researchers have increasingly sought to influence the policy-making process through their findings and recommendations. One aspect of policework which remains poorly understood, yet whose illumination is crucial to the success of these efforts, is the process whereby policy is implemented within the organisation. This study addresses this issue through an analysis of relations of power and influence within four Scottish Divisions. Attention is centred upon the main 'line' organisation connecting uniform patrol to the divisional hierarchy, and in particular, upon the role of the patrol sergeant as a crucial intermediary rank. It is argued that, against a background of an indeterminate mandate and a rigid bureaucratic framework, recent changes in public attitu des and expectations, in the political and legal environment of policing, in its organisational and task structures, and in police officers' orientations to work and authority, have eroded the basis for consensus between ranks and exacerbated mutually instrumental attitudes. This more instrumental climate is self-perpetuating, frustrating attempts at all levels to maintain or re-establish harmonious relations. For the sergeant, these problems emerge as a set of strategic and existential dilemmas which requires them to manipulate a declining resource, namely trust, in balancing the demands of seniors for effective and legitimate performance, and those of juniors for feasible working targets and protection of operational discretion. Sergeants employ many devices to this end, with only limited success. The transformation of inter-rank relations such as to reconcile these aspirations requires instead a broader package of reform measures, with the restructuring of the system of police accountability as its centrepiece.
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Green, Aaryn L. "Calling Out Culture Vultures: Nonwhite Interpretations of Cultural Appropriation in the Era of Colorblindness." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1535371632312056.

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Martinez, Adam. "ADAPTIV ORGANISATIONS KULTUR VID FÖRÄNDRING : En narrativ litteraturstudie." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-175159.

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An ever-changing world and environment demands on organizations ability to adapt. Research shows that organizations that can respond adaptively to change have a greater chance of surviving. This study aimed to identify and account for factors in organizational culture that are seen as adaptive. The study was carried out through a qualitative narrative literature study where 11 articles in different research fields were examined. The study identified factors that characterized an adaptive organizational culture. These factors were flexibility, risk-taking, innovation, creativity and openness to change. The study also reports on appropriate strategies and desirable conditions for creating an adaptive organizational culture where the organization is adaptable in relation to its environment. Examples of that are the importance of establishing commitment, involvement, trust, internal adaption and common purpose, when implementing an adaptive organizational culture. Furthermore the role of leadership and the significance of the organizational structure are discussed in relation to adaptive organizational culture. Despite the results of this study, there is a complexity in assessing an adaptive organizational culture and the field requires more research.
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Martin, Gregory David. "New Age travellers : a study in sceptical sociology." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361322.

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Pérez, Rubiales Elena. "Essays on the art museum experience: a cultural sociology perspective." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/285164.

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Ensayos sobre la experiencia de ver arte en museos: un análisis desde la sociología cultural se estructura entorno a dos trabajos de investigación sobre las dimensiones emocional y social de la experiencia de visitantes de museos de arte. Las investigaciones se centran en el estudio de experiencias individuales antes, durante y después de la visita al museo para poder obtener una visión holística de la experiencia. El estudio aplica el uso de métodos cualitativos con el objeto de interpretar las narrativas de las experiencias reportadas por nuestros informantes y poder ofrecer una explicación de la experiencia museística vivida por los visitantes de museos de arte. El primer artículo — titulado The unforgettable aesthetic experience: the relationship between the originality of artworks and local culture — se enmarca en el área de la sociología cultural y examina el rol de la cultura en la dimensión estética de la experiencia museística. Concretamente, describimos la experiencia de ver obras de arte en los museos y ofrecemos una explicación de la que hemos denominado una “experiencia estética inolvidable”, la cuál se caracteriza por su elevada intensidad emocional y duración en el tiempo. Reconocer e interpretar el valor social atribuido a las obras originales (y no a las copias) dependerá de las habilidades del visitante. Esta teoría tiene implicaciones teóricas y metodológicas para la investigación. En el primer caso, porque la idea de que el componente emocional de la experiencia inolvidable está unido al valor de culto asociado con la obra original da soporte a la proposición de que el capital cultural es contextual y/o local. En el segundo, porque estudiar experiencias de gran intensidad emocional implica el análisis de experiencias pasadas y no sólo las ocurridas en el interior del museo, por lo que las investigaciones deben basarse en diseños que permitan producir teorías fundamentadas en los datos y no sólo en estudios de carácter etnográfico. El segundo artículo — titulado Art museum visitors: interaction strategies for sharing experiences — explora la dimensión social de la experiencia museística desde el marco teórico del interaccionismo simbólico. Más específicamente, estudiamos la dimensión social de las experiencias con museos de arte desde una perspectiva temporal holística que cubre los períodos referentes al antes, durante y después de la visita. Los resultados sugieren que la dimensión social se distribuye a lo largo de los tres períodos de la experiencia museística, con independencia de si el individuo asiste solo o acompañado. Teóricamente esto implica que ir solo o acompañado al museo debe tratarse como una estrategia temporal de visita y no como una categoría universal. La estrategia del visitante dependerá de la facilidad o dificultad para encontrar un acompañante adecuado. Metodológicamente significa que estudiar lo únicamente ocurrido en el museo puede llevar a interpretaciones sesgadas y, por tanto, es necesario estudiar la experiencia de forma holística, atendiendo también al antes y después de la visita.
Essays on the Art Museum Experience: a Cultural Sociology Perspective is structured around two research works regarding the emotional and social dimensions of the art museum visitor’s experience. The research focus is the study of individual experiences before, during and after the museum visit so as to ultimately provide a holistic view of the experience. The study applies the use of qualitative methods in order to interpret the narratives of the experiences reported by our informants and offer an explanation of the museum experience lived by art museums visitors. The first article — titled The unforgettable aesthetic experience: the relationship between the originality of artworks and local culture — is framed in the cultural sociology field and examines the role of culture in the aesthetic dimension of the art museum experience. More specifically, we describe the experience of viewing artworks in museums, explaining, in particular, what we term the “unforgettable aesthetic experience”, an experience characterized by its high emotional intensity and duration in time. It will depend on the visitor’s ability to recognize and interpret the social value attributed to the original works (and not copies). This theory has theoretical and methodological implications for research. In the first case, because the idea that the emotional component of the unforgettable experience is linked to the cult value associated with the original work supports the proposition that cultural capital is contextual and/or local. In the second, because studying intense emotional experiences involves analyzing past experiences and not just those occurring inside the museum, so research should be based on designs that can produce theories grounded on narratives of past-­‐lived experiences; ethnographic designs are not enough. The second article — titled Art museum visitors: interaction strategies for sharing experiences — explores the social dimension of the museum experience from the theoretical framework of symbolic interactionism. More specifically, we study the social dimension of art museum experiences from a holistic temporal perspective that covers the periods before, during and after the visit. The results suggest that the social dimension is distributed over the three periods of the museum experience, regardless of whether the individual attends alone or accompanied. Theoretically this means that visiting accompanied or unaccompanied should be treated as a temporal visiting strategy, not as a universal category. The visitor’s strategy depends on whether it is easy or difficult to find a suitable companion. Methodologically it implies that just studying what happens in the museum can lead to biased interpretations and, therefore, it is necessary to study the experience holistically, also considering the before and after the visit experience.
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Kwon, Hye Won. "The sociology of grit: cross-cultural approaches to social stratification." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6454.

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Grit, the concept consisting of perseverance and passion towards a desired long-term goal, has been spotlighted as a key psychological resource that is predictive of positive life outcomes including academic achievement, professional success and subjective well-being. Despite its popularity within and outside of academia, much more needs to be researched before we can understand its properties and sociological utility. This dissertation explores the potential location of grit within various sociological discourses, including literature on agency, stratification, and perceived meritocracy. In addition, I explore the relationship between social status, subjective agency, the social valuation of grit, and grit cross-culturally to place grit within proper cultural and structural contexts. In Chapter 2, I propose the psychological notion of grit as a potentially useful variable in sociological analysis and explore its potential for contributing to addressing sociological concerns including human agency and stratification. Grit could work as a “behavioral engine” transforming subjective beliefs about agency (e.g., sense of control) to agentic practices that potentially produce better life outcomes. In Chapter 3, using new cross-cultural data collected from South Korea and the United States, I test the current measure of grit, the Grit-S scale, that is developed and predominantly tested in the United States, in two different countries, South Korea and the United States. I find in both countries grit is better understood as the concept consisting of two separate dimensions, perseverance and passion, rather than a global concept. In addition, I find the perseverance facet of grit, but not the passion facet, shows the distinctive utility in explaining subjective well-being beyond subjective agency (i.e., sense of control) in both countries. In Chapter 4, I analyze novel cross-cultural data collected from four nations (France, South Korea, Turkey and the United States) and find an indirect linkage between a person’s socioeconomic status and the level of grit through positive associations with the sense of control. That is, people with a higher socioeconomic status tend to hold stronger beliefs about one’s agency, and those who are strong believers in one’s control over life outcomes, in turn, are more likely to develop grit in these four countries. In Chapter 5, using the same cross-cultural data used in Chapter 3, I investigate the social valuation of grit and whether and how the valuation of grit is associated with individual development of grit in South Korea and the United States. In both countries, grit is valued as a desirable virtue that leads to success in life. However, there is within-society variance: people from lower social statuses tend to value grit as a virtue that leads to success more than those from higher statuses in both country samples. In addition, I find people with a higher sense of control are more likely to value grit as a virtue, and valuing grit is positively associated with the individual development of perseverance in both countries.
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Teixeira, Ana Lucia de Freitas. "Modernidades em confronto: as literaturas modernistas brasileiras e portuguesa." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-19022010-154219/.

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Esta tese busca investigar as razões pelas quais foi necessário romper o diálogo, ou ao menos silenciar sobre ele, entre os escritores do Modernismo brasileiro e do Modernismo português. Envolvidos que estavam em uma problemática comum, a da renovação das linguagens artísticas, tanto modernistas brasileiros quanto portugueses encontraram um patamar comum no qual estabelecer seu enfrentamento mais direto: aquele que pudesse fazer ruir os parâmetros acadêmicos da arte nacional em prol de uma linguagem renovada cujos efeitos excederiam largamente o plano da literatura. Tanto em Portugal quanto no Brasil, desenvolveu-se um verdadeiro projeto que costurava uma renovação da linguagem artística com a modernização da própria nação, articulando, portanto, o movimento modernista com uma proposição de Modernidade. Daí que a noção de Modernidade que se pôde fazer brotar a partir de ambos os movimentos possui, na contramão do que se deu com o Modernismo centroeuropeu, uma marcada fisionomia nacionalista. Esse atributo comum é mobilizado na esteira da perspectiva de múltiplas Modernidades que podem ser formuladas dentro de cada um desses projetos modernistas e a partir das especificidades sociais de que cada um deles dispunha. A despeito dessa problemática de fundo comum, que mobilizou a ambos, as soluções textuais encontradas são bastante diversas: no caso brasileiro, tratou-se, na afirmação de uma autonomia nacional, de rasurar parte componente de seu passado e constituir um cânone literário que se estrutura sobre uma perspectiva auto-referida, como se a cultura brasileira não tivesse se originado de nada que não dela própria, numa perspectiva autóctone que é tão mais eficaz quanto mais velado é esse seu atributo; no caso português, tratou-se de abdicar de um dos mais fundamentais eixos do Modernismo, o da negação do passado, nele fincando a imagem a partir da qual foi possível fazer ressurgir um Portugal modernizado. É precisamente na saída encontrada por cada um desses movimentos para se compassar com as vanguardas modernistas centro-européias que reside a incompatibilidade que os levou a impedir um debate intelectual profícuo: como parte do passado negado pelo Modernismo brasileiro, Portugal é tomado por atrasado e posto de lado, a despeito da antecedência do seu movimento modernista; como figura não conivente com o mito do heroísmo desbravador do português que deu ao mundo moderno o traçado que ele tem hoje, o Brasil é interlocutor de somenos importância. É na discussão dos meandros dessas aproximações e distanciamentos que se estrutura esta tese.
This thesis investigates the reasons of the dialogue interruption or at least the silence between Brazilian and Portuguese modernist authors. Engaged to a common problematic, the renovation of artistic languages, both Brazilian and Portuguese authors were situated in a shared level to establish a more direct confrontation towards a renewed language that had effects which exceeded the limits of literature. The project developed in Brazil and in Portugal combined the renovation of the artistic language and the modernization of each nation, thus articulating the modernist movement to a modernity proposition. Consequently, the idea of modernity that could emerge of both modernist movements presents a nationalist aspect that is absent in the modernism developed in central Europe. Considering the social specificities in which each one of these movements were inserted, the nationalist aspect is mobilized in the perspective of the multiple Modernities that could be formulated by each one of these modernist projects. Despite the shared problematic that has concerned both movements, the textual solutions found by each one of them were different. The Brazilian case was based on the affirmation of the national autonomy by erasing its past and constituting a structured autonomous literary canon, as if the Brazilian culture had been originated in itself in an autochthonous perspective. In the Portuguese case, authors abdicated the denial of the past as one of the most fundamental aspects of Modernism. It was through past that the image of a modernized Portugal arose. Hence, the incompatibility that prevented the establishment of a proficuous intellectual debate among those authors was originated precisely from these different solutions managed by each one of the movements to compass themselves to other central European vanguards: as part of the past denied by Brazilian modernism, Portugal is considered obsolete and left aside, despite the anteriority of its modernist movement; as a figure that disregards the myth of the Portuguese heroism in exploring and tracing the modern world map, Brazil becomes a less important interlocutor. Thus, this thesis discusses the proximity and distancing of these two movements.
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Plaza-Azuaje, Penélope. "'Oil that harvests culture' : state, oil and culture in petrosocialism (Venezuela, 2007-2013)." Thesis, City, University of London, 2016. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/18390/.

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This thesis develops a story about Venezuela as an oil state and the way it deploys its policies to instrumentalise culture and urban space. It examines the way the Petrostate is imagined in speeches, how it manifests physically in space and how it is discursively constructed in adverts. By engaging with the work of Henri Lefebvre, Bob Jessop and George Yúdice this thesis sets out to challenge the disciplinary compartmentalisation of the analysis of the material and cultural effects of oil to demonstrate that within the extractive logic of the Petrostate and the oil industry, territory, oil, and culture become indivisible. Mainly, it explores how the material and immaterial flows of oil traverse space, bureaucratic power, and culture. This thesis is particularly concerned with investigating the discursive and institutional mechanisms that enabled the Venezuelan stateowned oil company PDVSA to expand its dominant space over Caracas to effectively reframe the city as an urban oil field. The thesis develops through four interconnected arguments. It examines the representations of space produced by Petrosocialism through the creation of the new policy instruments of the Socialist State Space. This process opened an institutional and legal breach that enabled PDVSA, the state-owned oil company, to enact the Oil Social District as a parallel State Space. Consequently, PDVSA’s definition of its corporate headquarters as a centre of oil extraction conceptualises Caracas as an oil field absorbed by the Oil Social District to enable PDVSA La Estancia (the cultural and social arm of PDVSA) to override municipal authority and embark on an ambitious program of public art restoration and urban regeneration. PDVSA La Estancia’s actions in the city are justified by its use of farming language that discursively melds oil and culture in a symbiotic and cyclical relationship to define their work as ‘oil that harvests culture’. Moreover, the advertising campaign ‘we transform oil into a renewable resource for you’ is used by PDVSA La Estancia to render oil and culture as equivalent, conceiving culture as ‘renewable oil’ as if culture could accumulate in the subsoil waiting to be extracted, exploited and processed like a mineral resource. An original contribution of this thesis is to build on Yúdice’s expediency of culture as a resource to propose the notion of culture-as-mineral deposit, in which culture is inextricable from land, akin to ‘renewable oil’ and tightly controlled by the Petrostate.
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McBride-Walker, Mercedes. "Standing out| The influence of organization culture and cultural values on a manager's willingness to meaningfully differentiate employee performance." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1543409.

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This mixed-methodology study investigates the degree to which dominant organization culture and cultural values influence a manager's willingness to differentiate employee performance for the purpose of making meaningful talent decisions. Data were collected from 26 companies and a total of 45 individual participants. The findings suggest that specific values play a significant role in influencing a manager's willingness to differentiate employee performance regardless of dominant culture. All organizations have high and low performers, yet being willing to make tough performance calls for greater talent decision effectiveness may require embodying values that are considered countercultural. We argue that these values may need to be translated in the dominant culture for greater acceptance and assimilation, and recognize that companywide performance management programs may best be viewed as a collection of individual decisions that carry with them great tensions. Implications and limitations of the study are discussed.

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Karlsson, Lena. "Klasstillhörighetens subjektiva dimension : klassidentitet, sociala attityder och fritidsvanor." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologi, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-531.

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The main objective of this dissertation is to study the subjective class identification and the importance of this identification for social attitudes and leisure habits. Class identification is a significant, yet often neglected, area of research in the study of social class and stratification. The aim of this thesis has been to explore in what way the Swedish citizens perceive their own place in the structure of stratification. This thesis is based on three Swedish surveys, collected between 1993 and 2000. The results show that a vast majority of the citizens think that Sweden is still a class society and can place themselves in this structure. The most important sources for this identification are the objective class position and the class position of the father during childhood and adolescence. Identification with the working class is to a higher extent connected with a view that the differences in living conditions are too high, that the differences in the possibility to advance in the Swedish society are unequal and that the gap in income should decrease. This standpoint is nearly as common for people who identify with the working class irrespective of a socialistic or non- socialistic position. The results also show that class identification is related to the level of participation in different leisure activities. Identification with the middle class is connected with a higher degree of participation in a variety of activities, especially in highbrow culture such as theatre and opera. In the conclusion it is discussed that the relevance of class identification in the future is highly dependent on how class in the political and ideological sphere is formulated and attached with different attitudes, and if class is expressed as a positive source in the construction of the social identity.
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SHEN, Dan. "後CEPA 時期香港電影懷舊想像中的「本土」身份書寫." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2014. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/cs_etd/23.

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2003 年中國內地與香港簽訂《內地與香港關於建立更緊密經貿關係的安排》(Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement, 簡稱CEPA)。其中關於電影的條款放寬了香港電影進入內地的條件，加之龐大的市場需求，香港電影工業的跨境活動變得日益頻繁, 並開啟了新一輪的中港「合拍片」潮流。電影產業及其市場環境的轉變背後是更為深層的中港經濟、政治與文化的融合。香港從「九七」前後至今在新的政治空間及身份脈絡中不斷尋求「本土」位置顯得日益困難。電影作為流行文化文本和社會實踐曲折地表述「本土」、「自我」、「身份」，其中「懷舊」（nostalgia）便是近十年香港電影文化想像中一個顯著的憶述工具和路徑，亦即通過處理「過去」、歷史、集體記憶等來書寫「現在」的某種情感、經驗、欲望。 本論文以後CEPA 時期的香港電影為研究對象，檢閱以合拍片為主導的電影工業體制下，和香港近十年來文化政治脈絡中，不同類型、風格、主題，以及不同生產方式、製作規模、市場面向的香港電影懷舊想像與「本土」身份的互構關係。以及後CEPA 時代香港電影的懷舊想像與此前懷舊電影相比下的延續與新變。
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HUANG, Weizi. "當代中國文化明星的製造 : 變動的文化生產場." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2010. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/cs_etd/13.

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本文借助並修訂了布爾迪厄（Pierre Bourdieu）的理論框架，透過對中國大陸二十世紀九十年代以來文化明星的製造進行研究來理解變動中的文化生產場 (field of cultural production)，並探討在其間知識分子作為的新可能。文化明星問題之所以值得特別研究，首先是由於它處於當代中國文化生產的中心，涉及到電視、圖書、平面媒體、互聯網等不同的文化生產次場域（sub-field），以及製作人、 出版人、文化明星本人、“粉絲” (fans) 和批評者所代表的不同力量。考察圍繞著製造文化明星的複雜的關係網絡，正可以勾勒出當代中國變動的文化生產場域的概貌。其次，文化明星的產生和生產是對九十年代以來知識分子危機的一種回應，是知識分子問題的變奏。理解了文化明星的製造機制，有助於尋找在當下的文化生產場中知識分子作為的新可能。 本文選取余秋雨、易中天、于丹和韓寒四個個案進行深入分析。余秋雨是公認的第一個最成功的文化明星，對其案例進行研究揭示了文化明星產生的歷史轉變。易中天和于丹的案例則代表著著一種可以複製的成熟的文化明星製造模式的出現。韓寒的形象及製造是一種有別于以上主流文化明星的另類模式。 本文綜合運用多種研究方法，包括對十幾名相關的文化生產者進行訪問，組織了一個針對粉絲的焦點小組（focus group），並且到電視節目錄製現場、出版 社和大型書店進行參與式觀察。此外亦有歷史檔案梳理和文本、話語分析。 最終，本文繪製出了不同的文化明星在當代中國文化生產場中的位置，反思了現有文化明星生產模式的後果，並對知識分子/文化生產者參與文化生產提出有針對性的建議。
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Acherman-Chor, Dora. "The maintenance of tracking : the role of organizational culture." FIU Digital Commons, 2001. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1101.

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Modern comprehensive high schools do not formally track students into different programs, but schools offer different curricular sequences with important and stratified consequences for students' post-secondary education. This study used qualitative methodology to examine how schools' organizational cultures influence the maintenance of tracking practices in four comprehensive high schools in Miami. The methodology included long-term participant observation in each of the four schools, unstructured and semi-structured interviews and the collection of written documents produced by the district. A framework based on the concepts of environment, mission,, information, strategy, and leadership was used to analyze the data. It was found that school cultures shared deeply held beliefs that regard ability as a fixed trait. This prevented schools from providing access to information about the consequences of course selection to the majority of the student body, with the exception of those students defined as "college bound." State and County level policies that reward achievement in standardized tests combined with school overcrowding, resulted in organizational cultures that favored the adoption of strategies stressing efficiency, as opposed to a challenging education for all students. Only one of the four schools in the study had a policy requiring students to attempt courses that were more challenging. The practice was resented by both teachers and counselors, since it was perceived as interfering with other goals of the institution, i.e.: graduating students in four years. The culture of the schools stressed college as the only legitimate post-secondary option; consequently, the majority of counselors did not encourage students-even those already defined as "not college material"-to consider other alternatives, such as vocational education. The elimination of formal tracks in these comprehensive high schools resulted in the school culture lacking a clear mission in regards to non-college bound students. Findings are discussed in relation to current theoretical explanations for educational policy and equality of opportunity.
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Nava, Mica. "Feminism, culture and the intellectual process." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1991. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10018558/.

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This submission to the University of London for a PhD by publication is composed of ten articles published in journals and edited collections between 1980 and 1990. The work covers a wide span chronologically and thematically and for the purpose of this presentation has been divided into four sections. The articles in Section I examine the history and implications of key debates within feminism and were published between 1980 and 1983. An additional piece of the same period, which covers some of the same ground but was written and published in Spanish, is included in the Appendix. The articles in Section II were published between 1982 and 1984 and focus on gender in youth work and schooling. The first piece is an ethnographic study of young women in north London who attended a girls project. The second is a historical analysis of gender difference in youth service provision and the third explores the symbolic meaning of the urban and the domestic in the education of girls. Section III contains two pieces on child sexual abuse. The first, published in 1984, looks at questions of power and policy in the context of a school; the second, published four years later, focuses on the politics of representation. The three articles in Section IV, published since 1987, confirm this movement into cultural analysis and investigate theorisations of consumerism, advertising and identity. The ten articles are linked to each other by the introduction which traces the historical, biographical and conceptual context in which the work was produced and provides a framework in which the intellectual process itself becomes an object of study. The commentary, which explores in greater detail aspects of the production and reception of each piece and highlights key themes, provides an additional connecting thread.
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Hancer, Zuhal Yonca. "Problems And Status Of Sociology In Turkey." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605428/index.pdf.

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The main question of this study is the insufficient developed character of sociology in Turkey. In this study it is assumed that there are few factors that lead to this situation. Official ideology and its effects on sociology and university, the problems arisen from the discipline itself, the developing character of Turkey, and the conflict among sociologist academicians can be accepted as the factors that affect the sociology in Turkey. Related to this problem, in this study the opinions of academics sociologists in Turkey are examined. By using the techniques such as questionnaire and depth-interview, academicians&rsquo
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Araújo, Francisco José [UNESP]. "Mandonismo e cultura política pós-1985." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/106280.

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Este trabalho volta-se para a análise do mandonismo no Brasil contemporâneo. Tem como objetivo dar conta das suas formas de reprodução e atualização, portanto, da sua sobrevivência. Para tanto, examina o conteúdo da Cultura Política brasileira no que tange às tradições republicana, liberal e democrática, o tipo de estado federativo que se organizou no Brasil e as condições de existência da accountability horizontal e vertical. O enfoque tem como recorte histórico o período que se inicia no pós-1985, quando são restaurados o regime democrático e o estado de Direito. Toma-se como caso-exemplo o ex-presidente José Sarney, tendo-se em vista que ele obteve, nos últimos 40 anos, destaque tanto no âmbito regional como nacional além de ter participado diretamente de todos os grandes acontecimentos políticos no período abordado. Foi, inclusive, o primeiro presidente civil depois de 1964. A tese parte do suposto de que o mandonismo é um fenômeno que não se restringe ao Nordeste ou a regiões mais pobres, como costuma ser afirmado no Brasil. Está presente também nos centros mais ricos, manifestando-se sob formas mais sofisticadas menos caricaturais. Os mandões das regiões brasileira econômicas e politicamente hegemônicas agem de forma sincronizada em defesa dos seus interesses harmonizados o que lhes confere grande eficiência, não se diferenciando dos demais mandões do Norte e Nordeste quanto à prática de governo privado. Assim como estes buscam controlar a alocação dos recursos e manter influência sobre diversos agentes estatais da accountability horizontal, a fim de garantir vantagens na utilização dos recursos e bens públicos e ficar na impunidade.
This work is directed towards the analyses of mandonismo in contemporary Brazil. Its aim is to its reproductive forms and actualizations, and therefore, its survival. To accomplish such work, it examines the contents of the Brazilian political culture in its republican, liberal and democratic tradition, the type of federal State that was development in Brazil and the conditions of existence for horizontal and vertical accountability. This approach has as its historical background the period beginning after 1985, when the democratic system and the State of law were restored. The former president José Sarney was used as a case-example. In the last 40 years, he obtained success both in regional and national scopes. Moreover, he took direct part in all major political events during the period of time studied. Apart from that he was the first civilian president after 1964. This thesis begins with the assumption that mandonismo is a phenomenon that is not restricted to the Northeast or to the poorer areas of Brazil, as it is commonly affirmed. It is also present in the rich centers, being revealed under more sophisticated forms, less caricatured. The bosses of the Brazilian economical and hegemonic political regions act in a synchronized way to defend their own harmonized interests, which gives them great efficiency. They do not differ themselves from the bosses of the North and Northeast regions who the practice their own private government. In the same way, they aim to control resource allocations and maintain influence over many horizontal accountability state agents, in order to guarantee advantages in using resources and public property and remaining under impunity.
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Holden, Daphne. "Constructing an Emotional Culture in An Intentional Community." NCSU, 2001. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-20010731-150641.

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The central focus of my dissertation is the process through which people construct and strategically use an emotional culture as an interactional resource. My research is based on three years of fieldwork observing an intentional community's business meetings, retreats, workdays, and social events, as well as interviews with all community members. For many of the community's therapeutic founding members, intense, unconstrained processing was a self-developmental end in itself. They took from therapeutic discourse the idea that it is only through unearthing true feelings that one can hope to process childhood pain and find one's true self. However, other members were interested in the community for political or environmental reasons and didn't like intense therapeutic processing. I show how these differences among members led to micropolitical struggles over community structure, focus, and definition. Therapeutic members had the most control over the emotional culture, creating a context in which there was an unacknowledged stigma attached to not sharing emotions and reproducing the idea that "authenticity" meant appearing out of control. I showed how they then used therapeutic discourse as a resource to preserve a therapeutic emotional culture in which they were seen as the most proficient and brave. The unintended consequences of their use of this therapeutic discourse were to exclude or discredit other perspectives, to shield the current context from critical examination, and to create an emotional double standard for men and women.

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Duncan, Neil. "Sexual bullying : gender conflict in pupil culture." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/96284.

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Hayes, Nicky. "Social identity, social representations and organisational culture." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303949.

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Donald, James. "Schooling, popular culture, government ideology and beyond." Thesis, Open University, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.253550.

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Yang, Jeoung-Nam. "Culture, family and alcoholism in South Korea." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267074.

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Sandidge, Hajnal. "Culture and the modern self : a comparative analysis of the cultural theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Fredric Jameson /." Thesis, This resource online, 1996. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02132009-171948/.

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McCarthy, Michael R. "Romano-British People and the Language of Sociology." Wiley, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4022.

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Despite the vast amount of work and the huge database for Roman Britain, the people of the province remain very difficult to discern. There are many reasons for this, but one is that we have not yet learned to look behind the disjecta membra of archaeology in order to understand the structure and nature of society, and how the Roman Conquest may have impacted upon it. The language of sociology offers scope for thought, especially when combined with examples drawn from historically documented societies in later periods. Whilst models drawn from the classical world are important, attention also needs to be focused on the local, and on the factors that determined the shape of people's lives and influenced their daily activities. Not all these are archaeologically detectable; nevertheless an appreciation of their existence is an important pre-requisite in attempting explanations of patterns in the data.
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Zhang, Qing. "The genealogy of Apple in China: towards a genetic phenomenological sociology of culture, media and technology." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2017. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/401.

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The state of cultural and social theories is not satisfactory though they seem to flourish in terms of quantity. Scholars successfully describe most of the cultural and social phenomena but propose wildly different, sometime even opposite, interpretations of these phenomena. This thesis offers genetic phenomenological sociology as an alternative interpretation that goes beyond structure oriented theories and construction (agency) oriented theories. It proposes to interpret cultural and social phenomena in the process of their emergence and transformation, and argues that this process or genealogy is the social ontology of culture and society. This thesis develops genetic phenomenological sociology through exploring the genetic side of phenomenology and social theories, and through examining the emergence and transformation of Apple in China. Genealogy is not only method and critique, but also social ontology. This is a main theoretical argument and objective of empirical analysis of the thesis. Theoretically, this thesis explores the genetic side of Husserlian phenomenology, phenomenological sociology as well as the genetic side of social theories. These theories fully develop genealogy as method and critique and imply genealogy as social ontology. But they do not fully develop the idea of genealogy as social ontology. This underdevelopment leads to theoretical problems of subject and normativity, such as Husserlian phenomenology and Foucault's theory. Genealogy, as social ontology, is a way out of the dichotomy of structure and construction, a way out of the philosophy of subject, and a solution to the problems of subject and normativity. This theoretical argument is further developed through theoretical investigation of meaning context, social ontology, genealogy, practice, encountering and embodiment from the perspective of genetic phenomenological sociology in the substantive chapters. Empirically, the genetic phenomenological sociology of Apple answers the question how Apple culture emerges and transforms in China. It examines Apple in genesis in China from the 1980s to 2015. First, the meaning context of this period can be largely described as a transformation of electronic culture from modernization in the 1980s to individualism and consumerism after 2000 through marketization. Second, Apple store exemplifies the social ontology and epistemology of genetic phenomenological sociology. Third, the genealogy of Apple advertisements, media practices and media ritualization concerning Steve Jobs and the cultural encountering of Apple in the meaning context of China's reform era illustrate how Apple culture emerges and transforms. Finally, the genetic phenomenological sociology of Apple technology further reveals the relation between people and thing, which is embodiment. This thesis develops genetic phenomenological sociology as an alternative approach in the study of culture, media and technology that goes beyond structure and construction oriented theories. The ontological root of genetic phenomenological sociology, which is the non-subject philosophy, needs to be further developed.
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Boone, Sinara Maria. "A produção teatral escolar como expressão dos valores culturais na adolescência: um estudo de caso." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2007. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/208.

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O espaço escolar é um dos lugares onde a cultura é manifestada, integrando diferentes valores. Por isso, este estudo tem como objetivo analisar os valores culturais presentes nas produções escritas por adolescentes para a dramatização em período escolar. O estudo foi realizado por meio da análise de textos dramáticos produzidos por alunos de uma escola da rede particular de ensino da cidade de Caxias do Sul. A pesquisa utiliza o método da análise de conteúdo, tendo como corpus textos teatrais produzidos no período dos onze anos de existência da escola selecionada, os quais sinalizam alguns dos aspectos culturais valorizados no período da adolescência. Do estudo dos textos emergiram categorias culturais temáticas que se referem a: relações sociais: família e amizades; cultura regional: traços da cultura italiana e gauchesca; literatura e cinema e passado, futuro e meio ambiente; mídia e tecnologia. A abordagem desses assuntos define aspectos do universo da adolescência, considerado do ponto de vista regional e caracterizado pela mistura de culturas representadas socialmente. Na compreensão das questões culturais, escolares e teatrais, utilizou-se um aporte teórico que definiu alguns termos importantes para a compreensão das manifestações culturais por meio das representações literárias associadas ao teatro, tais como: cultura, identidade, imaginário, adolescência e teatro escolar. O referencial teórico utilizado permitiu o entendimento da cultura e de como os valores aparecem e são articulados nesse grupo, representados pelo texto teatral. Desse modo, o estudo contribui para a compreensão da identidade cultural na adolescência e para os estudos que envolvem a investigação da cultura e da literatura em contexto escolar e regional.
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The school environment is a place where culture is revealed by the integration of different values. This study aims at analyzing cultural values that are disclosed in adolescents written productions assigned in drama classes. The study analyzed drama scripts presented by students of a private school in Caxias do Sul. The research method was based on content analysis and its corpus is a set of drama scripts produced throughout an 11-year-period, which address to some cultural aspects that are valued among adolescents. From the study it was possible to come up with cultural themes related to family and friends; regional culture; traces of Italian and local (gaucho) cultures; literature; movies and the past; (worries about) the future and the environment; media and technology. The approach of such topics is defined by the aspects expressed in the adolescents universe, from a regional point of view which is characterized by a mix of socially represented cultures. In order to understand the topics related to adolescents culture, school and drama aspects, it was employed a theoretical support that defines important terminology to the comprehension of such cultural expression represented by literary relations associated to drama, namely culture, identity, imaginary, adolescence and school drama. The theoretical support employed also allowed the understanding of the culture and how values are shown and are articulated within the group, transcribed through the drama scripts. As a result, this study intends to contribute to the understanding of adolescents cultural identity as well as to further studies that involve the investigation of culture and literature in regional and school contexts.
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