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Петрушенко, Юрій Миколайович, Юрий Николаевич Петрушенко, Yurii Mykolaiovych Petrushenko, and A. Kirichenko. "Subculture in organization." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2006. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/8454.

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McDowall, Matthew Lewis. "What choice? subculture films, naturalization, and the postmodern condition /." Connect to the multimedia version of this title online Connect to the PDF version of this title online, 2003. http://www.creighton.edu/%7Espoko/subculture/.

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Woodlock, Natalie. "Subculture and Queer Subjectivity." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2531.

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My work explores subculture as a form of cultural resistance to the dominant ideology. I'm concerned with the ambiguous relationship we occupy as subjects to the material produced by popular culture, and how this is digested and understood by female viewers and cultural outsiders. The specific temporality of the queer subject is a key theme in my work.
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Marshall, David Herman. "The Marine Corps subculture." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1145.

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This thesis analyzes the subculture within the United States Marine Corps. It attempts to bring the traditional literature of criminal subculture and the subculture of violence together with literature of occupational subculture to explain many of the behaviors exhibited by Marines.
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Hunter, Gordon S. "Political subculture : a resilience modifier." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/5573.

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author proposes to use analysis of disaster case studies from three representative communities-each highlighting one of Dr. Elazar's three subcultures of Traditional, Individual and Moral-to determine whether pre-evaluated resilience values and predicted response to disaster coincide with actual event outcomes. By using the Social Vulnerability Index values as a baseline metric for a quantifiable measure of resilience, the author found that political subculture does alter the predicted outcome and should be further researched as a potential modifier of planned resilience and response.
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Xiao, Jian. "Exploring punk subculture in China." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/19562.

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This thesis explores the punk phenomenon in China. In order to examine punk members and practices, an ethnographic research was conducted in large-scale cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, and small-scale cities, such as Wuhan and Huaihua in China, as well as on the Internet. In particular, the thesis focuses on two prominent themes subculture and resistance as the main directions of analysis. Through discussing findings from the three dimensions of the individual, collective and online, it is argued that the Chinese punk phenomenon exists as a subculture and punk subcultural practices can be regarded as manifesting forms of resistance in China. First, this study presents a detailed individual biography of one punk musician and then further examines those of other participants. It is discovered that subcultural resistance can have a different impact at different stages of a person s life. Second, this study demonstrates forms of collective practices and how they are manifested, and reveals how Chinese punk subculture members collectively produce different forms of subcultural resistance. Finally, this study examines Chinese punk online. It focuses on how online group members produce meanings of their activities and deploy specific techniques to resist online norms and censorship. Overall this thesis contributes to the ongoing discussions in current field of subcultural studies. By providing a study on punk subculture in China, the research engages empirically in the question of power relations in a society from both individual and collective levels, which has rarely been undertaken before.
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Choong, Wi Yan Kelly. "Cryptic marketing : strategic targeting of subculture markets." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/79904/4/Wi_Choong_Thesis.pdf.

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This research aims to understand what factors influence consumers' behaviour to subculture marketing and how companies can strategically overcome potential brand alienation. Findings validate cryptic marketing as a strategy for organizations to communicate effectively with their chosen market through the use of cryptic cues, symbols and messages while circumventing negative responses from non-target audiences. The thesis contributes to extending current understanding of marketing communication through the use of covert strategies, employing covert tactics on the non-target, wider market instead of the target, subculture market.
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Lau, Wing-shan Elaine. "A place for HK music subculture." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31983984.

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Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998.
Includes special report study entitled : In search of urban space for music activities. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.
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Lau, Wing-shan Elaine, and 劉詠珊. "A place for HK music subculture." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31983984.

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Hunt, Pamela M. "A Quantitative Approach to Studying Subculture." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1213888416.

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Wong, Chun-yu Wilson. "Event nexus subculture youthscape in Kwun Tong /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3198731X.

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Wong, Chun-yu Wilson, and 王震宇. "Event nexus: subculture youthscape in Kwun Tong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3198731X.

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Harris, Ian Richard. "Myth and reality in the motorcycle subculture." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1986. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/106994/.

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Divided into two parts, the thesis seeks to provide a detailed explanation for the emergence and historical development of the outlaw motorcycle subculture as well as the essential structural and Ideological focii which underpin the phenomenon in its contemporary form. Part I charts the progressive expansion from its initial appearance as a specifically distinct form of deviant subculture in Southern California in the latter part of the 1950s to what is today an extremely prolific international, intergenerational and largely interracial mass subculture. Focussing upon the different stages which have characterised the subculture's process of solidification, it examines the series of media-induced moral panics which have periodically elevated it to public prominence and makes intelligible the complex interrelationship between the various disparate contextual strands which have over time coalesced to form that broad strata of motorcycle-borne folk devil ubiquitously and invariably erroneously described as 'Hells Angels'. Part II cuts through the heavily myth-laden skin of the contemporary outlaw motorcycle subculture as it exists in its archetypical form throughout the world, exposing the no less rich layers of subcultural activity underneath. Commencing with an analysis of the genesis of and quasi-criminal in-group behaviour common to that highly-ritualised and tightly-knit subcultural formation, the one-percenter outlaw motorcycle club, it examines the symbolic order of meaning which gives substance to the lives of the membership, looks at the collective decision-making processes which ensure internal solidity, and charts the career pattern of a would-be club member from casual 'hangaround' to full blown 1%er. The remainder of Part II still further separates the myth from the reality by breaking down the very potent barriers of popular imagery which have hitherto so successfully rendered all previous sociological accounts of the outlaw motorcycle subculture absolutely meaningless. It looks at the spheres of politics, race, sex and crime and re-evaluates conventional wisdom on biker attitudes to and involvement in each.
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Graor, Christine Heifner. "Weight Loss, Subculture Socialization, and Affective Meanings." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1216601297.

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Dunn, Ridgely. "Challenging Appropriation: Modern Moko and Western Subculture." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1301937973.

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Clark, Dylan Matthew. "Dancing on the ruins : anarchy and subculture /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6440.

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Da, Cunha e. Alvelos Heitor Manuel Pereira Pinto. "The fabrication of authenticity : graffiti beyond subculture." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.489034.

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Wilson, Sharon. "VW Campervan subculture : tourism mobilities and experiences." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2018. http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/9314/.

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This thesis seeks to understand the mobilities of VW Campervan tourists as they travel for leisure purposes. The aim of the study is to unpack the social and embodied consequences of Volkswagen ownership to contribute to mobilities and automobilities research. By following the ‘slow’ journeys of VW campervan tourists travelling to festivals in the North East of England and Scotland, the different intensities of interactions between driver and vehicle are mapped in this dialogic account. Mindful of the centrality of the human subject in this case, it was important to ground the research in the new mobilities paradigm and to place meaningful movements at the heart of this analysis of a particular expression of modern social life (Urry, 2000a, Adey, 2010). Further to epistemological rationale of the study, Actor Network Theory is also used as tool through which to unpack, order and reconcile the social, material and non-representational affects that constitute VW Campervan travel. This framework is important as it has allowed knowledge to be captured within a broad spectrum of possibilities rather than as distinct tropes. Within existing tourism literature, interactions between people and velocity on ferries, canoes, motorcycles, waiting in line and so on, have been touched upon (Mitchell and Kubein, 2009; Vannini et al., 2009; Waskul, 2009), but no research has looked explicitly at the dimensions of VW campervan travel as a characterful form which travellers form significant bonds with their vehicles. In terms of the research design, interdisciplinary, inductive and interpretivist methodologies are used as epistemological foundations upon which ethnographic, auto-ethnographic, visual and mobile methods are deployed for data collection. Fieldwork was conducted during the summer between 2010/13 and the resultant findings developed into three distinct critiques. These include observations on how they travel on roads to the destination, considerations of the relationship between the driver and VW campervan, then finally insights into the experiences of owners at the festival. As a contribution to knowledge therefore, the chapter Velocity and Time comprehends the experience of roads as not mundane thoroughfares but instead rich, vivid and meaningful places where travellers are enveloped in speed, nature and communality. Then in the chapter Sensing the Automobile, the emotional 3 and embodied relations between driver and vehicle as they together create mobile leisure are contemplated. Finally in Home and Away the paradoxical nature of tourism normally used to escape the everyday, is was found in this case that the mundane realities of home were replicated somewhere else. The third and final discussion examines the relationship between the VW campervan and its owner to propose that their embodied relationship induces a range of social intercourses unique to the Volkswagen brand.
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Sinclair, Graham. "The Mods in Catalonia: a critical perspective of the neo-gramscian approach to popular culture." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/665130.

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Through a study of groups of Mods from different generations and geographical settings, I develop the idea that an analysis of their ‘signs’ is not enough. I argue that it is helpful to look at the very particular background to the emergence of youth subcultures in Spain when discussing the Mods. By leaning on the Oral History tradition, I attempt to give a voice to the Mods themselves through a series of interviews and a study of their Modzines. The conclusion suggests that cultural theory has to be flexible if it is to remain useful. Gramscian hegemony theory would appear to allow for such flexibility. I also argue that certain cultural theorists, as a result of finding themselves at an ideological impasse, have attempted to locate a symbolic class struggle within subcultural practice. I feel this is probably more vicarious than efficacious.
A través de l’estudi de grups de mods de diferents generacions i procedències geogràfiques / medis / entorns (? Not sure about this translation), sostinc que no n’hi ha prou amb una anàlisi dels seus ‘signes’. Defenso que quan es tracta dels mods, és de gran ajuda el fet de tenir en compte el rerefons ben específic que porta cap a l’emergència de les cultures juvenils a Espanya. Basant-me en la tradició d’estudis de la història oral, em proposo de donar veu als mateixos mods a partir d’una sèrie d’entrevistes i d’un estudi dels seus modzines. Com a conclusió apunto que la teoria cultural ha de ser flexible si vol continuar essent útil. La teoria de l’hegemonia gramsciana es mostra com un marc que permet aquesta flexibilitat. També defenso que certs teòrics culturals, com a resultat de trobar-se ells mateixos en un impàs ideològic, han intentat de situar una lluita de classes simbòlica en el si de les pràctiques subculturals. Em sembla que aquest plantejament probablement és més vicari que eficaç.
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Cox, Barth. "Asking to See the Soul: A Video Documentary Exploring the 'Coming Out' Experiences of Men Identifying with a Gay Subculture." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2003. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/29.

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This thesis details the production process of a video documentary that describes the coming out processes of gay men who identify with the Bear subculture of the gay community and some of the conflicts and consequences that they face due to this action. The aim of this production was to portray with dignity and compassion the recorded feelings and personal histories of the subjects interviewed. Chapters are devoted to the development, pre-production, production and post-production phased of this documentary. A detailed script, transcripts, shot list, and other examples and illustrations are included to give a better understanding of the entire production. This thesis also includes other necessary documentation such as a detailed budget and copies of performance releas
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Wermuth, Mir. "No sell out : de popularisering van een subcultuur /." Amsterdam : Aksant, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39078174t.

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Yildiz, Muammer. "Culture and subculture in the Turkish police force." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30121.

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This study analyses the relationship in Turkey between police deviancy and police culture. It is argued that deviant individuals are able to excuse their deviant practices in an environment that provides them ample opportunity. The study demonstrates that police misconduct is a matter of institutional facilitation and organisational responsibility, more so than a matter of individual deviance. The 'bad apple theory' merely provides an attempt to normalise or invent plausible excuses for deviant conduct by the police authorities. On the contrary, it is argued that police violence is culturally rooted in the operational code that exists within groups of police officers. It is due to such an operational code that allows violence in certain situations to be regarded as a logical, acceptable or at the very least, a condonable form of behaviour. Hence, from this perspective, for positive development to be effective, it must be targeted at the informal culture of the police and their practical working rules, as opposed to the cosmetic legislative changes and initiatives aimed at public relations. Consequently, this study explores the Turkish police culture and shows that the element of 'authority' is almost a single dominant factor behind the occupational culture of the police officers' - despite two elements: danger and authority. It is these two elements, which marks it apart from police cultures in England and Wales and the United States. The core characteristics of the Turkish police culture are closely related to police officers' authority to that of a 'man in charge'. Police violence is thus deemed an almost inevitable tool in defence of this mandate, and to subsequently prevent an erosion of authority. Thus, in order to understand this mentality of Turkish police officers, the historical development of their role has also been emphasised.
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Wood, Robert Thomas. "Straightedge youth, subculture genesis, permutation, and identity formation." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ60358.pdf.

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Mark, Amanda. "Soap opera subculture : emotional realism and empathic identification." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56790.

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Popular feminine narratives, domestic, emotion-based texts through which communities of women have traditionally practiced feminine discourse, have been marginalised by dominant masculine cultures throughout their long history. This continues in the postmodern era, in which the culturally dominant postmodern aesthetic has declared the death of the social, narrative and affect, all intrinsic to the popular feminine narrative. Nevertheless, these narratives persevere in such forms as the daytime television soap opera. Using a reader-oriented model, American soap operas are discussed as a site for the generation of women's pleasure, and as a forum for the raising, sharing and addressing of problems which affect women's lives. Soap opera fan magazines further extend the already social soap opera experience, which celebrates emotion and empathy in a culture which often negates them.
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Greenwood, Susan Elizabeth Jane. "The British occult subculture : identity, gender and morality." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300028.

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Sarajeva, Katja. "Lesbian Lives : Sexuality, Space and Subculture in Moscow." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Socialantropologiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-60025.

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This study is an exploration of the lesbian subculture in Russia focusing in particular on the subculture as a unique heterogeneous space of social interaction and cultural production that is not self contained or isolated from mainstream society, but incorporates a variety of cultural flows and traditions that are a part of Russian mainstream culture, other Russian subcultures, or global cultural flows. Some of these cultural flows and traditions are more compatible than other ones. The increasingly globalized images and ideas of what a gay and lesbian community is, or perhaps should be like, are only partially compatible with contemporary reality in Russia. The high value placed on visibility and explicitly political, even radical activism, in gay and lesbian subcultures in the West, must in Russia be reconciled not only with the totalitarian past, and the increasingly authoritarian present, but also with the traditions and practices that developed as a response to the repressive regime and enabled people to live and even thrive within it. Using private spaces as public space, and public space as private space established a practice of multilayered spaces that are continuously maintained through social inclusion and exclusion, visibility and invisibility. However, the subculture is not only an intersection of external cultural flows and traditions, it also has it’s own unique traditions, knowledges and practices. Poetry, music, literature and art form the backbone of the flow of activities within the subculture. Visual and grammatical cues, styles, jokes and lesbian genders are integral aspects of the subculture as it is continuously renegotiated by its participants also on an individual level.. The study is based on fieldwork, participant observation and interviews, mainly in Moscow, and to some extent in St Petersburg, during 2005 with recurring visits during 2006 and 2007.
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Shah, Aarambh. "Subculture perspectives of money and humorous advertising appeal." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0003500.

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Flowers, Michael Charles. "Counterparts and Werther: A Literary Approach to Subculture." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/579291.

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This work takes a literary-historical approach to subculture by analyzing the affective emotions of scene culture in the context of its historical moment. Additionally, it analyzes how the structure of feeling which dominates scene culture has been at work since Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, showing that this such structure of feeling is actually a result of major cultural shifts which make the search for authenticity a near impossible task. In the process of performing such a literary-historical approach to subculture, the pitfalls of the sociological approach to subculture will be brought to light as well.
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Strubel, Jessica L. "The decline of music subcultures the loss of style meanings and subcultural identity /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1173232632.

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Mills, Mollie V. "The Youth Party-Subculture: A Prerequisite for Adulthood Success?" Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cj_theses/9.

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Research has not yet examined the relationship between minor teenage deviance and later adulthood success. Building on previous research by Moffitt (1993) and Hagan’s (1991) youth party-subculture, I will define and compare four adolescent groups based on offending type. I argue that minor deviance, rooted in the party-subculture, will enhance social and networking skills that will be beneficial in adulthood. College attainment, serving as a social control, is expected to moderate the effects of deviance, benefiting party-subculture youth. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health dataset, findings suggest that adolescents engaging in minor deviance are more extroverted in adulthood, with little difference in earnings when compared to party-subculture abstainers. However, adolescent deviants continue substance use and deviance into adulthood significantly more than party-subculture abstainers.
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LANZ, LUCIANO QUINTO. "THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FINANCE SUBCULTURE, CULTURE AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=5017@1.

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Esta dissertação tem como propósito analisar o processo de gerenciamento cultural da Embratel, já no período pós- privatização, no qual ocorreu o alinhamento dos valores da organização em torno dos valores da subcultura de finanças, que assumiu papel dominante, e verificar seus impactos no desempenho organizacional. A empresa enfrentou uma crise em seus resultados, em meio a alterações no ambiente externo, o que levou a reformulação de seus objetivos estratégicos, que passaram a ter mais foco na geração de resultado. Através de uma análise qualitativa, com a abordagem de estudo de caso e modelos que relacionam a emergência de subculturas, a cultura e o desempenho, procurou-se, através de pesquisa documental e de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, identificar as mudanças na cultura da empresa, o processo de concordância cultural e seus reflexos no desempenho financeiro, comparado a outras empresas do setor. Os resultados confirmam a literatura sobre o assunto, que indica que existe uma forte correlação entre a emergência de subculturas dominantes, períodos de turbulência interna e externa e mudanças na estrutura da organização e evidenciam a importância de algumas variáveis no gerenciamento da cultura voltada para o desempenho, como a estrutura de poder, o processo decisório, o processo de comunicação, o sistema de recompensas e os processos de seleção, treinamento e de avaliação.
This essays focuses on analyzing Embratel (a large telecommunications company) cultural management, in the post privatization period, when organizational values got aligned with the values of the finance subculture, that emerged as the dominant subculture, and identify its impact in organizational performance. The organization, confronting with an hostile environment, faced a crisis in its results, that drove to a reformulation in its strategic objectives, that gained a financial focus. Through qualitative analyses, a case study was conducted relating the emergence of subcultures, culture change and performance. The research was based on a documental analysis and semi-structured interviews. The cultural agreement process and its impacts in financial performance were investigated. The conclusion of this study reinforces the hypothesis in the organization theory that indicates a strong correlation between the emergence of dominant subcultures, periods of external and internal turbulence, changes in the organization structure, showing the key influence of some variables in the cultural changing management process with focus on performance, such as: power structure, training, communication, reward, selection and evaluation systems and decision process.
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Попова, К. С. "Гендерний аспект субкультури емо gener aspect of emo subculture." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2008. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/14332.

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Nero, Julie. "Hannah Hoch, Til Brugman, Lesbianism, and Weimar Sexual Subculture." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1347561845.

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Wood, Andrea. "Radicalizing romance subculture, sex, and media at the margins /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0023561.

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Stoops, Jamie. "Pornography and Transnational Sexual Subculture in Britain, 1900-1939." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556820.

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This dissertation interrogates the place of pornography within British culture between 1900 and 1939. While numerous scholars have studied British pornography using literary analysis and various cultural history approaches, this has not been accompanied by significant attention to the social dynamics of those involved in producing, consuming, and regulating pornographic materials. By dedicating equal attention to the products and operations of the pornography trade itself and to the surrounding hegemonic forces of state, press, and civil society, this research challenges widespread assumptions regarding the relationship between pornography and mainstream sexual culture. Specifically, this project argues that the pre-1939 pornography trade can best be understood as a queer sexual subculture. Moreover, this subculture operated as a node within a far larger and more complex transnational network rather than as an isolated national or local entity. Pornographic content reflected these conditions of production and consumption, offering subversive alternatives to heteronormative hegemonic practices such as mandatory heterosexuality, monogamy, and binary gender roles. Numerous social trends and competing discourses worked to create cultural spaces in which the subculture operated. The British state, civil anti-vice organizations, and the press all formally opposed the pornography trade yet limited their efforts against it due to competing priorities such as opposition to censorship and the desire to frame pornography as a strictly foreign social issue. This carefully historicized case study of a specific culture of pornography offers a counterpoint to contemporary treatments of pornography as an ahistorical and monolithic cultural production. By placing the pre-1939 British pornography trade in its specific imperial and transnational context, this dissertation shows that pornography can only be studied through close attention to its conditions of production, consumption, and regulation.
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Crockett, Jason Lee. "Narratives of Racial Sexual Preference in Gay Male Subculture." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/204275.

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My dissertation uses multiple methods to introduce the novel concept of racial sexual preference - individuals’ preferences for a sexual or romantic partner based on race. This project builds on an insight from Daryl Bem’s “Exotic Becomes Erotic” theory of sexual development: a diverse set of sexual preferences exists beyond gender. I argue the very real social consequences of race make preferences in regard to it (sexual or otherwise) an important area for systematic study. I focus on gay male subculture, which has uniquely developed a terminology for expressing racial preferences. I investigate how racial preference is understood and organized within this subculture by collecting gay men’s sexual history narratives of cross-race preferences through interviews, as well as collecting archival materials from the national organization Black and White Men Together (BWMT) that pertain to racial sexual preference. I find that racial sexual preferences are experienced early in the life course and are consistent over time, similarly to experiences of gendered sexual orientation, though generally less exclusive. Unlike gendered sexual orientation, identities are unlikely to form in relation to racial sexual preferences because there is little ideological structure to support expression of cross-race racial preferences. Even within the organizational structure of BWMT, founded to support racial sexual preferences, over time I find a decrease in discourse and identity related to racial sexual preference (in favor of a colorblind ideal of preferences). I end my study by using the concept of racial sexual preference, supported by the findings from interviews and case study, to build on and challenge the theoretical work of Daryl Bem, Lisa Diamond, and James Giles in the area of sexual development and desire.
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Wilson, Victoria Arriola. "The Social Organization of the Hip Hop Graffiti Subculture." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626015.

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Burgess, Jean E. "High Culture as Subculture : Brisbane's Contemporary Chamber Music Scene." Thesis, The University of Queensland, 2004. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/28527/1/28527.pdf.

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The aim of the dissertation is to discover the extent to which methodologies and conceptual frameworks used to understand popular culture may also be useful in the attempt to understand contemporary high culture. The dissertation addresses this question through the application of subculture theory to Brisbane’s contemporary chamber music scene, drawing on a detailed case study of the contemporary chamber ensemble Topology and its audiences. The dissertation begins by establishing the logic and necessity of applying cultural studies methodologies to contemporary high culture. This argument is supported by a discussion of the conceptual relationships between cultural studies, high culture, and popular culture, and the methodological consequences of these relationships. In Chapter 2, a brief overview of interdisciplinary approaches to music reveals the central importance of subculture theory, and a detailed survey of the history of cultural studies research into music subcultures follows. Five investigative themes are identified as being crucial to all forms of contemporary subculture theory: the symbolic; the spatial; the social; the temporal; the ideological and political. Chapters 3 and 4 present the findings of the case study as they relate to these five investigative themes of contemporary subculture theory. Chapter 5 synthesises the findings of the previous two chapters, and argues that while participation in contemporary chamber music is not as intense or pervasive as is the case with the most researched street-based youth subcultures, it is nevertheless possible to describe Brisbane’s contemporary chamber music scene as a subculture. The dissertation closes by reflecting on the ways in which the subcultural analysis of contemporary chamber music has yielded some insight into the lived practices of high culture in contemporary urban contexts.
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Chung, Kwok-shing Patrick. "The implications of youth subcultures in developing marketing strategies for the new integrated youthwork teams /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1947068X.

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Kidder, Jeffrey Lowell. "Emotions, space, and cultural analysis the case of bike messengers /." Diss., View abstract only; access to full text of dissertation for UC campuses will be available after February 1, 2011, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3341853.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.
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Luk, Wai-kwok. "Hong Kong gangs do they have an irrational violent subculture? /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31979324.

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Philpot, Justin. "Reevaluating Subculture: Pro-Life Youth and the Rhetoric of Resistance." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1214246691.

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Clerici, Nathen. "Dreams from below : Yumeno Kyūsaku and subculture literature in Japan." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44643.

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Since the middle of the 2000s and the rise of Cool Japan, manga, anime, video games, Japanese horror films and J-Pop music are more popular than ever throughout the world. Both in Japan and abroad, these popular culture products are often synonymous with subculture. Sabukaruchā, as it is known in Japan, is a hot topic even as the concept itself remains unresolved. In this context, what role does literature—a field no longer atop the cultural hierarchy—have to do with the ongoing negotiation of what subculture means in modern Japan? The elements of what we now consider subcultural media and narratives have roots in the literature of past decades, and in this dissertation I explore the possibility of a new analytical framework: “subculture literature.” By thinking of subculture as a reception category—not unlike cult film—rather than in terms of concrete genres such as manga or anime, I adopt the concept of “subcultural affects” to examine notions of marginality and how society defines itself (and responds to external definitions). Similar to what might be considered narrative elements in a literary context, subcultural affects are the aspects of a text that are drawn out by readers to form affective constellations predicated on minorness. As a case study, I turn to the texts and reception of Yumeno Kyūsaku (1889-1936), a writer of mystery fiction who, despite achieving modest popular success in the late 1920s and early 1930s, was largely forgotten until his writing was revived in the context of 1960s sub- and counter-culture. For a politically-engaged youth, Kyūsaku offered an alternative model of being in the world: romantic and darkly comic, and engaged with questions of authority and madness. But how was his work received when it was written? Using the subcultural affects of henkaku, nansensu and dochaku, I consider the long-term reception of Kyūsaku’s work as a way to begin to bridge not only the gaps between historical eras, but between center and margin, major and minor, and popular and elite.
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Ewenstein, Boris. "Post-subculture and reflexivity : cultural learning in London and Berlin." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.415051.

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Wong, Ying-ching Hilda, and 黃映貞. "Youth subculture in Hong Kong: case studies of young deviants." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31976116.

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陸偉國 and Wai-kwok Luk. "Hong Kong gangs: do they have an irrational violent subculture?" Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31979324.

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Stedman, Barbara A. "The word become fiction : textual voices from the evangelical subculture." Virtual Press, 1994. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/917838.

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Between 1979 and 1994, conservative, Protestant Christian fiction, or simply "evangelical fiction," has burgeoned into a powerful literary representative of America's modern evangelical subculture. This study examines that phenomenon by combining: (a) close textual analysis of the novels, particularly novels written by two important evangelical novelists--Janette Oke, romance writer, and Frank Peretti, author of supernatural thrillers; (b) analysis of the reading habits and tastes of 218 readers of evangelical fiction in the Muncie, Indiana, area by way of questionnaire responses and also follow-up interviews with 75 of those respondents; and (c) careful investigation of the cultural context in which these novels are written, published, and read.One particular issue investigated is whether readers read these novels primarily for entertainment or for spiritual edification. On one hand, these novels fit into the category of "popular" fiction and therefore meet readers' needs for entertainment, albeit entertainment that is consistent with evangelicals' theology, lifestyle, and world view. On the other hand, these novels fill readers' needs for edification, for overt religious support and teaching, for perpetuation of what evangelicals already believe. They are, in Roland Barthes' words, examples of doxa, i.e., history transformed into nature.Another special issue investigated is the role that these novels play in the battle against mainstream secular culture. In particular, Oke's novels function as cultural preservers, particularly of nineteenth-century models for the family, morality, and unworldliness; and Peretti's novels function as cultural combatants, actively naming and attacking secular enemies, especially the New Age movement and abortion industry.The study concludes that evangelical fiction not only reflects evangelical subculture, but also affects it; that the genre has undergone dramatic changes from 1979 to 1994 and that publishers, writers, and readers are calling for more sophisticated fiction. However, evangelical fiction, as a cultural expression, falls within what is sometimes called the "evangelical ghetto" and, since evangelicalism is a religious orthodoxy, the fiction will have difficulty emerging from that ghetto.
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Toribio, Maria Nuria Triana. "Subculture and popular culture in the films of Pedro Almodovar." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363539.

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Merida, Victor M. "Life in the Penit: Framing and Performing Miami's Graffiti Subculture." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1184.

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In the tradition of the Birmingham School of cultural studies, this thesis focuses on Miami’s graffiti subculture and the conflicts between market economies and economies of social meaning. As a reference point, I consider Miami’s “Penits”: the name given to the seemingly abandoned buildings where graffiti is performed. Short for penitentiary, the term derives from the 1980s after a large building rumored to be a prison was defunded midway through its construction. After this first reclamation, every other graffiti heterotopia in Miami has been similarly recoded as spaces that mock structures of discipline and industry. Through Michel Foucault’s biopolitical framework I argue that the sovereign state and marketplace conspire to dually criminalize and commoditize the subculture’s performative defiance. I conclude by illustrating how the market itself reinforces the carceral archipelago by framing the subculture’s vandal aesthetic through the normalized, self-interested boundaries of conduct that the market itself deems il/legal.
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Farrier, Terrence Lee. "Overcoming the Adverse Impact of Internal Subculture Communications within Organizations." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3347.

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The need for clear and organizationally effective communications is necessary to maintain sustainability as competition increases. Current research has not addressed problems associated with senior managers' clarity and intent and the misinterpretation by midlevel managers of that intent, causing division managers to misinterpret the company plans. Unresolved miscommunications may lead to destructive subculture development. This mixed methods design focused on how to minimize the confusion that manifests between senior and midlevel management within diverse and decentralized decision support structures. The secondary purpose was to advocate for the identification of divisional misalignment and provide information for a tool to help senior level managers identify possible misalignment. Leader-member exchange theory and decision theory guided the research design associated with the study of middle-level managers (N = 220) whose companies were members of the local Rotary clubs and selected individual businesses in South Carolina. Results were analyzed with correlations, ANOVA, and regression. Results indicated that the independent variables of clarity, information delivery tools, mental frame, and the form of message did not statistically affect the decision-making processes of middle level managers in similar-sized businesses. However, the qualitative results suggested that the senior manager's clarity is related directly to the distinction between FYI and FYA forms of communication. Positive social change may result from the findings. The results could be used to improve decision makers' ability to communicate their organizational strategy to other managers, thus promoting sustained businesses success and employment in a community.
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