Rozprawy doktorskie: „Culture of consumption”

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Nixon, Elizabeth. "Indifference in a culture of consumption". Thesis, University of Bath, 2013. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.589656.

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In attending to consumption as a defining feature of life in Western societies, existing consumer research has tended to envisage, construct and reproduce ‘the consumer’ as either enthusiastically embracing the delights of the market, or as actively resisting or rebelling against its evils. The extant research has therefore tended to assume a high degree of reflexive conscious engagement in consumption as the norm. In this research, I argue that this might have inadvertently obscured the possibility of non-participation in various aspects of consumption through disinterest. This appears within the field as a theoretical space where people relate to consumption opportunities with rather less reflection or emotion and allows for the choice not to buy to be part of an accepted and unreflected-upon aspect of existence; a diverse shadow-realm of consumer inactivity in which feelings of indifference may be significant. Though a general lack of interest in various aspects of consumption may constitute an ontologically common experience, indifference has remained a largely unnoticed and under-theorised element of social reality in a consumer culture. In this study, I explore the possibilities of indifference in a consumer culture, not as a psychological construct or symptom of pathology but as a lived experience, understood in different ways and constituted through different discursive contexts. In this research, I draw on 29 phenomenological interviews to offer an empiricallygrounded interpretation of what it means to be indifferent to consumption. From the stories the informants shared with me, I articulate how the experience of indifference can appear as a genuine blindness towards a spectacular world of consumption, underpinned by other sociocultural narratives that construct the marketplace as a remote, unfamiliar or unappealing domain. In other stories, experiences of indifference appeared to be maintained by a constant and taken-for-granted adherence to a classification system that denotes consumerism as a powerful source of physical and spiritual pollution. Whilst in other narratives, a general lack of interest in various aspects of consumption revealed a paradoxical desire for a personal identity forged from a dismissal of consumption; a culturally-shaped performance of pseudoindifference that involved refusing ‘consumer activity’ in order to construct a defiantly nonconsumer self. In addressing the cultural narratives and contexts that seem to account for nonconsumption through indifference, this study contributes to wider debates on processes of disengagement and less material living, and invites consumer researchers to develop a greater sensitivity to indifference within sociological accounts of consumption.

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BODUROGLOU, IVAN, i CLEMENTINE CARON. "Culture and Marketing of French drugs consumption". Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-29401.

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Paddock, Jessica. "Class, food, culture : exploring 'alternative' food consumption". Thesis, Cardiff University, 2011. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/27436/.

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Contributing empirically, methodologically and conceptually to the body of work that remains unconvinced of the ‘death of class’ (Pahl 1989), this thesis explores the resonance of class culture in contemporary ‘alternative’ food practice. Indeed, arising from disenchantment with conventional industrial food production and supply chains, ‘alternative’ food networks aim to provide a means to reconnect consumers, producers and food (Kneafsey et al. 2008). By taking seriously the act of shopping for food as culturally meaningful and not merely a practice of routinely provisioning the home (Lunt and Livingstone 1992) this thesis then argues that ‘alternative’ food practice provides a platform for the performance of class identities. That is, both structurally and culturally, class is thought to matter to people (Sayer 2011), and is elucidated and reproduced through food practice. By means of mixed methods data collection; participant observation, survey, semi-structured interviews and documentary analysis, this study provides support for a Bourdieusian approach to class analysis. In particular, the thesis makes use of Bourdieu’s toolkit of concepts by conceiving of class as a relative ‘position’. This is understood to be achieved via the moral derision of the ‘other’, where participants draw moral boundaries between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ foods and the ‘good’ or ‘bad’ who partake in its consumption. In this way, the field of ‘alternative’ food practice seems not only ground from which to observe class. Rather, ‘alternative’ food is understood to be appropriated as a resource of ‘distinction’ (Bourdieu 1984) that is then figured in the very maintenance and reproduction of class culture. This interface between class, food and culture may prove consequential for those seeking substantive alternatives to conventional foodways. Crucially, it is argued that by imagining less socially and culturally uniform strategies to promote ‘alternative’ food practice, we may unlock their potential to provide an equitable and sustainable food future. To this end, by elucidating the moral significance of class in the field of ‘alternative’ food practice, this thesis has wider implications in carving a role for sociological enquiry in the emerging field of ‘sustainability science’ (Marsden 2011).

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Mehta-Chopra, Nishi. "The representation and consumption of 'Asian culture'". Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2005. https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/679e936c-3da8-4fdb-90a5-6e6abf625db1/1/.

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This thesis focuses on the representation and consumption of 'Asian culture' within a context of Western popular culture and specifically, 'British mainstream' and 'British Asian' magazine visual discourses. Through a critical engagement with Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) which charted Western inferiorizing cultural representations of the East as located in historical and material contexts, I aim to explore issues of 'race' and Otherness amidst a background of historical and commodification processes. This has been attempted using multiple methodologies that in addition to engaging with secondary material, has involved a reflexive use of semiotics and discourse analysis to analyse magazine images and written text respectively. Further, I have attempted to go beyond the textual focus of both Orientalism (1978) and many media studies by also gathering contextual reader responses to magazine representations. These have taken the form of the subjective interpretations of 20 British youths (men and women of Asian and white English origin) that have been analysed in conjunction with biographical narratives that I also conducted with each of them. Through the use of this rich and varied empirical data coupled with a thorough review of secondary source material, I aim to add to and question work that has been conducted in the area of 'race' and culture that appears to have moved from a concentration on the 'essential black subject' to an emphasis on ethnic unities within an uncritical celebration of 'diaspora' and 'hybridity'. I also aim to make problematic work that has been conducted in the area of orientalism through drawing attention to the limitations associated with the concept of 'self-orientalism' and practices of 'self-representation' by minorities. Overall, through conducting work on Asian representations within the popular magazine media coupled with its interrelation with varied audiences, I hope to make some inroads into these under-researched areas.

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Grehan, James Paul. "Culture and consumption in eighteenth-century Damascus /". Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Flavin, Susan. "Consumption and material culture in sixteenth-century Ireland". Thesis, University of Bristol, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.550301.

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This thesis argues that Irish consumption underwent major changes over the course of the sixteenth century, based primarily on evidence from eleven annual Bristol 'particular' accounts and Port Books. The study uses the customs data as a statistical framework on which to establish how, why and to what extent patterns of consumption changed in Ireland. The available qualitative evidence, including wills, archaeological evidence, pictorial evidence, contemporary literature and legislation are considered alongside the quantitative data to examine who was consuming the increasing range and volume of commodities that were imported into Ireland from Bristol and what changing consumption patterns reveal about the nature of Ireland's economy, society and culture during this period. The thesis also shows how the Exchequer customs accounts can be used to shed light on the changing consumption patterns / material culture of a pre-consumer society, with the intent of revealing the potential value of this source for consumption historians. This work contributes to the current historiography in a number of important ways. It shifts the chronological focus of consumption studies from the conventional eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the sixteenth century, thus illustrating that marked changes in consumption can occur even in the most unlikely of pre-industrial societies. Also, by focusing on Ireland during this critical period, the lead up to the Elizabethan re-conquest, the thesis shows the extent to which changes in consumption habits map onto major political and social changes, thereby shedding light on the impact of colonisation and conquest on the acquisition, and interpretation of everyday. goods. The study also makes a distinctive methodological contribution to consumption historiography, which currently suffers from a distinct lack of quantitative based studies.

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Winczewski, Marianna Jadwiga. "Consumption, pastiche and identity in postmodern visual culture". Diss., University of Pretoria, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23499.

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In this mini-dissertation the ongoing battle between the self and late-capitalist society is explored as a theoretical response to the notion of the fragmented subject in relation to postmodernism. Frederic Jameson links the schizophrenic subject and postmodern culture explicitly to societal changes in Western economies: this author's tradition outlines a main part of my theoretical stance within this mini-dissertation. Jameson, decisive in his criticism of current popular culture that has formed as a result of postmodernism, conveys a key dystopic viewpoint in his association of schizophrenia with postmodernism and late-capitalism. This sentiment is echoed in this mini-dissertation, as it is my belief that capitalist consumption habits and pastiche are interrelated in current popular visual culture, simulating a schizoid experience which consumers in turn mirror when formulating a sense of self. An essentially fragmented (postmodern) viewpoint with regard to postmodern visual culture is argued, and is aligned with Jameson's perspective on how subjects form identities within late capitalism, with pastiche and consumption labelled as the main causes of the contemporary societal problem of fragmentation. The main contention of the study is thus that contemporary consumption practices, through the stylistic acceptance of pastiche, are the current causes of fragmentation within the self. This naturalisation of postmodern montage and pastiche, in my opinion, effectively disorientates consumers, as similar techniques that are adopted in consumer culture are applied to identity formation, thus contributing to a sense of egolessness, a key characteristic of schizophrenia. Focus is placed on visual examples that highlight postmodern techniques of nostalgic image recycling, aligned to similar postmodern identity models, with parallels drawn between the fragmenting individual and the consuming individual. As exceedingly discontinuous processes of change occur through capitalist consumption habits that are emblematic characteristics of the postmodern condition, it is thus my belief that current postmodern visual culture contributes to an overall fragmented experience of the individual, where consumer practices are negatively affecting identity construction, and thus spurring on further cultural fragmentation and social disintegration. Copyright
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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MacCarthy, Martin. "Shooters : culture and consumption in Australian gun clubs". Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2008. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/233.

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This thesis explores cultural aspects of consumer behaviour in Australian target shooting clubs. It is the culmination of nine years of ethnographic research commencing in 1999 and finishing in 2008. Initially one gun club, The Pine Valley Pistol Club was chosen for the indepth study; however as the result of an iterative methodological process three more clubs of different types and disciplines were included. This occurred after realising the closeted nature of this shy and restrictive enclave manifests in subtle sub-cultural differences between clubs and disciplines.

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Housiaux, Kathryn Margaret Louise. "Re-conceptualising consumption : a geography of masculinity". Thesis, University of Southampton, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297871.

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Fu, Meng. "Yukata: a case study of transformation in consumption culture". Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110723.

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Yukata, a casual form of kimono, has undergone transformation in terms of both its associated meanings and its material forms in the post-WWII period in Japan. During this period, it changed from attire for private use to dress for events in public and became connected with various ideological notions. Tracing changes in the scale of the yukata industry in the postwar period, this thesis examines transitions in consumption patterns of yukata as a case study and compares it with observations on Japanese consumption culture by other scholars in the context of other commodities. In illustrating the transformation of yukata, I focus on its changing relations with everyday life, with discourses, and with other commodities. From these perspectives I attempt to describe how a commodity is consumed in relation with other social factors and how the consumption affects the commodity, in terms of both its meanings and its forms.
Durant la période suivant la Deuxième guerre mondiale, le yukata japonais, une forme de kimono porté dans un contexte informel, a subit des transformations à la fois en terme des significations qui lui sont associées, et dans ses formes matérielles. Il passe en effet d'un vêtement principalement porté à la maison à une tenue de sortie en public, et en est venu à être relié à une variété de notions idéologiques. Traçant les changements dans la dimension de l'industrie du yukata dans la période d'après-guerre, ce mémoire prend comme étude de cas les changements des tendances dans la consommation du yukata, et les compare avec les observations de différents auteurs sur la culture de consommation japonaise dans le contexte d'autres marchandises. En dépeignant la transformation du yukata, je mets l'emphase sur les changements survenus dans sa relation à la vie de tous les jours, aux discours qui l'entourent et à d'autres marchandises. À partir de ces perspectives, je tente de décrire comment une marchandise est consommé en relation avec d'autres facteurs sociaux et comment la consommation affecte la signification et la forme des marchandises.

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Annesley, James. "Blank fiction : culture, consumption and the contemporary American novel". Thesis, University of Sussex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321347.

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Kadel, Lena. "Mindfulness for sustainable consumption behaviour - inisghts into consumer culture". Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-445547.

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A large body of research implies that modern human behaviour threatens various life – sustaining resources. The excessive consumption patterns of resources by humans has been identified as one of the main causes of the environmental crisis. Automatic and unconscious decision-making behaviours have become deeply internalized among individuals, resulting in unsustainable and unnecessary consumption patterns. Emerging literature has begun to explore the concept of mindfulness in relation to sustainable consumption, and reports on a positive relation to lower ecological footprints, connectedness to nature and sustainable consumption patterns. This particular study builds upon existing empirical findings and addresses the relationship between mindfulness, impulsivity and consumption. An extensive literature review and primary data collection method based on a convenience sample, were used as methodological approaches for this study. Based on the data gathered through an online questionnaire, the study finds that mindfulness has a negative relation to impulsive buying behaviour, suggesting a decrease in impulsive consumption among individuals with a higher level of mindfulness. Contrary to existing research, this study found no significant relation between mindfulness and pro-environmental behaviour. However, there are several limitations to this study due to method bias, measurement issues as well as due to the format of the questionnaire approach, that need to be considered when discussing the findings. Overall, this research indicated that by tapping into mindfulness, individuals may become less vulnerable to automatic processing, helping to break routines and make consumers become more aware of negative effects of consumption choices. This paper recommends continued research and suggests possible future pathways.

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Peri, Luis Andrés. "Consumption patterns in Uruguay between culture and the economy /". Digital version:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p9992887.

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Jansson, André. "Image culture : media, consumption and everyday life in reflexiv modernity /". Göteborg : JMG, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb391513644.

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Osborn, Guy. "Folklore, folkdevil, folklaw : football and the regulation of its consumption". Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248458.

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Kirkwood, Katherine. "Superfood me: Negotiating Australia's post-gourmet food culture". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/208209/1/Katherine_Kirkwood_Thesis.pdf.

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Over the last 10-15 years, food has become an integral part of Australian popular culture. Through analysis of interview data and texts, this thesis articulates the next phase of Australian food culture. Everyday households now have a greater interest in ethical and sustainable eating, and a greater awareness of how the industrial food system encourages consumers to buy its products. Engagement with food culture is also going beyond television and print to embrace digital spaces, but these developments do not render legacy platforms obsolete. Together, these changes in culinary concerns and forms of food media represent Australia's post-gourmet food culture.

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Pennell, Sara. "The material culture of food in early modern England, circa 1650-1750". Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302127.

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Vorng, Sophorntavy. "Status City: Consumption, Identity, and Middle Class Culture in Contemporary Bangkok". University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5771.

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Doctor of Philosophy
Following decades of sweeping social change, a 'new' Thai middle class emerged to become the main agents of the mass demonstrations which have rocked Bangkok for the better part of the past four years. Yet, the academic literature reveals a marked paucity of data on the urban middle class, and on Bangkok's systems of stratification. This dissertation addresses this lacuna with research based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Bangkok. My investigations suggest that an indigenous spatial-symbolic matrix, encapsulated in centralising and hierarchising mandalic principles, continues to inform both cultural understandings of stratification and the socio-spatial structure of Bangkok. However, traditional status distinctions are now pervaded by the idiom of material wealth introduced by the forces of global markets. Today, life in Bangkok is framed by a hierarchy of affluence which echoes the numerical precision of the premodern sakdina system of status differentiation. Accordingly, I argue that the notion of the 'urban-rural divide' popularly used to describe the conflict obscures a more complex reality in which city and countryside are linked by reciprocal relations within both urban and national systems of status and class. This is clearly discernable in the nature of everyday interclass relations in Bangkok which have been exacerbated by contemporary diminishment and marginalisation of upcountry Thais by the urban middle classes. It is an incendiary dynamic that has been exploited to tremendous effect in the current political power struggle. I demonstrate that the middle class is significantly stratified internally, and explore how middle class culture and identity are drawn in large part from their understandings of status practices of elites. Much of this takes place in the public spaces of the city's scores of shopping malls, which articulate a local vernacular of prestige where hierarchical power relations are inscribed in urban space. Structural constraints and the societal privileging of wealth and connections are constant challenges to middle class aspirations for upward mobility, and the Bangkokian middle class harbours no illusions of Thai society as a meritocracy. This disenchantment has been channelled into a churning politics of resentment with demonstrably explosive potential. Ultimately, however, I argue that middle class discontent will contribute little to reform while the majority of individuals feel their only avenue for social mobility is to negotiate a pre-existing system of stratification which many perceive as unjust.

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Nakagawa, Anne Marie. "Culture, consumption and desire, or, The perversion of pink, plastic shoes". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0021/MQ49710.pdf.

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Rosenbaum, Michael S. "The Jeep people identity, consumption, and culture in a lifestyle community /". [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3278463.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Sociology, 2007.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-10, Section: A, page: 4498. Adviser: Thomas F. Gieryn. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 19, 2008).

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Milestone, Katharine Lucy. "The production and consumption of pop culture in the contemporary city". Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320490.

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Uraz, Arzu. "Assessing Patterns Of Household Expenditures On Recreation And Culture In Turkey In 2003". Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12610188/index.pdf.

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The rising importance of culture in social cohesion and economic development necessitates the analysis of cultural consumption from an economic point of view.This is important to understand household profiles which provide a certain typology on the socio-economic and demographic patterns of cultural consumption. In this thesis, we identify the households that spend on recreation and culture, the amount they spend and the potential factors that impact households&rsquo
recreation and culture expenditures in Turkey using the 2003 Household Budget Survey of the Turkish Statistical Institute. The results of a multivariate Tobit analyses suggest that total household expenditures, household size and its composition, age of household head and higher education level and place of residence are significant determinants of a household&rsquo
s expenditures on recreation and culture in Turkey. Our results also indicate recreation and culture to be luxury goods with an estimated income elasticity of 1.55. The multivariate analyses also showed very different expenditure patterns among household residing in different regions of the country. While this result may indicate different tastes and preferences of households residing in different regions it may also be that the supply of cultural goods differ between regions. The impacts of education level together with the socioeconomic factors on household recreation and culture expenditures provide useful insights not only for the suppliers of recreational and cultural goods and services, but also for the policymakers who can influence household consumption behavior (that includes both participation and spending) through using both demand and supply-side instruments.

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Banks, Mark Oliver. "Televising the region : the production and consumption of Granadaland". Thesis, Lancaster University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246097.

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MacArthur, Rose A. "Material culture and consumption on an English estate : Kelmarsh Hall 1687-1845". Thesis, University of Northampton, 2010. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/8873/.

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Stewart, David. "The age of the magazine : literary consumption and metropolitan culture, 1815-1825". Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/518/.

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The years between 1815 and 1825 were a period of social and cultural flux. This thesis examines what I take to be the most significant literary genre of that period, the magazine. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, the London Magazine and the New Monthly Magazine, along with a host of other, less commercially successful magazines, emerged as a dominant cultural force in these years. I place these magazines in a context of rapid literary and urban expansion, in which distinctions between commercial and aesthetic, literary and non-literary, and high and low cultures became newly anxious. Magazines, I suggest, illuminate a literary culture that was not as clearly divided as either traditional Romantic criticism or New Historicist cultural critiques have suggested. Rather, magazines stand at a midpoint between high and low cultures, neither of which could define itself except in relation to the other. I argue that magazines are significant precisely because their intermediate status offers the best guide to a newly confusing republic of letters. Chapter One discusses the development of the magazine from its eighteenth-century roots, and argues that Leigh Hunt’s Examiner is the most important influence on the new magazines. In Chapter Two I challenge Jon Klancher’s influential model of magazine readerships, and argue for a model of the magazine market dependent not on exclusion, but on connections between magazines and across a culture. In Chapter Three I propose a model of metropolitan culture, defined by its indistinctness, that underlies my conception of the magazine form as a whole. Here I discuss T. G. Wainewright’s art criticism for the London Magazine, arguing that it revels in the cultural indeterminacy that magazines so adeptly theorise. Chapter Four turns from the metropolis to the print market, arguing that magazine writers recognised that it had begun to resemble the London streets. But rather than rejecting the newly expanded “reading public” like many of their contemporaries, magazine writers enjoyed a new sense of freedom, even while they sensed the limits of that freedom. Many writers in the period sought to oppose literature and commerce, and in Chapter Five I again place magazines between these two categories. Thomas De Quincey made himself into a commercial success by claiming a literary identity that was opposed to the marketplace, but Blackwood’s, in a brilliant reversal, made itself into literature by flamboyantly asserting its commercialism.

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Bruhns, M. "Pub-lore-culture : an ethnographic study of alcohol consumption in County Cork". Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269031.

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ANDRADE, MARIA AMARAL DE. "COMMUNICATION OF LUXURY, FASHION AND CONSUMPTION: PORTRAYALS OF TRADITION AMIDST CONTEMPORARY CULTURE". PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2008. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=12162@1.

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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
Este trabalho tem por objetivo estimular o debate a respeito da comunicação e do consumo de bens de luxo. A partir da análise das configurações de uso dos discursos e narrativas de um grupo de informantes nativos - produtores e consumidoras de bens de luxo -, pretende-se investigar um conjunto de representações e relacionamentos sociais que se manifestam dentro de um imaginário contemporâneo que define padrões de bom gosto, beleza e sucesso. Entendendo que o consumo de bens de luxo é um processo que classifica e categoriza seus usuários coletivamente; é lançado um olhar quanto à produção de hierarquizações, significados e subjetividades na cultura de massa a partir das apropriações sociomidiáticas acerca do luxo. Distinção, poder e prestígio aparecem como noções centrais na construção deste paradigma que se perpetua ao contemplar a ordem social, conferindo ares de renovação estética e atualização ao sentido de tradição.
The objective of this research is to provoke new scholarly debate as it relates to the communication and the consumption of luxury goods. Parting from the analysis concerning key configurations on the uses of speeches and narratives of a group of native informers -producers and consumers of luxury goods -, it is intended to investigate a set of representations and social relationships revealed inside of a contemporary imaginary which defines the ideal standards of goodtaste, beauty and success. Understanding that the consumption of luxury goods is a process that classifies and categorizes its users collectively; it has launched a look onto the production of hierarchies, meanings and subjectivity within the realm of mass culture and the media`s appropriations pertaining to the luxury universe. Distinction, power, and prestige appear as central notions to the construction of this paradigm which perpetuates itself by contemplating social order as it confers airs of aesthetic renewal and continuous updating to the sense of tradition.

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Souza, Joseleide Terto de. "Contextos contemporâneos - homossexuais, cultura e mídia". Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27154/tde-19082015-111514/.

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O presente trabalho, Contextos Contemporâneos - Homossexuais, Cultura e Mídia, tem por propósito focalizar discussões sociais, com estudos voltados para a área de comunicação e cultura, sobre a percepção dos homossexuais ao segmento de mercado cujo aporte nas mídias de massa aponta para uma inserção cada vez maior no número de personagens homossexuais nas telenovelas. Para o desenvolvimento do tema, escolhemos em nossa abordagem o uso dos termos - homossexual feminino e masculino, assim como lésbica e gay, com destaque para o último em algumas generalizações, dentro do que denominaremos comunidade homossexual. Para tanto, fizemos um levantamento dos estudos sobre sexualidade, pondo em destaque o espaço psicossocial destinado a eles. Com o intento de esclarecer os meandros antecedentes à homossexualidade, sua identidade cultural e a tensão gerada pela educação do homem versus a da mulher, refletimos sobre a repressão do corpo e a relação entre cultura - poder e comunidade. Visto que a sexualidade contemporânea juntamente com as questões do corpo, da moda e identidade está permeada por influências midiáticas, abordamos o consumo de um modo geral e a Indústria Cultural, em específico, sempre questionando como os homossexuais se percebem no mercado direcionado a este segmento dentro das mídias. Como nosso intuito era abordar a percepção dos mesmos sobre esta representação, fizemos uma breve incursão sobre a história do cinema até chegar à televisão e nela destacamos a telenovela visto que, nas entrevistas realizadas na etapa da pesquisa empírica, esta foi uma das referências mais lembradas. Posto que é nesta que a comunidade homossexual possui maior visibilidade; também é ela a grande influenciadora no consumismo. No levantamento junto às lésbicas e gays entrevistados sobre seus entendimentos a respeito de estereótipos e identidade, os homossexuais falam sobre a influência e repercussão de personagens gays na TV, o quê consideram positivo e negativo. A partir de suas respostas, consideramos seus posicionamentos, sempre analisados à luz do repertório teórico utilizado no decorrer do trabalho.
The present work, Contemporary Contexts - Homosexuals, Culture and Media, is intended to focus on social discussions, with studies aimed at the area of communication and culture on the perception of the gay market segment whose contribution in the mass media points to an increasing insertion of gay characters in soap operas. To develop the theme, we have chosen in our approach the use of terms - male and female homosexual, as well as lesbian and gay, with emphasis on the latter in some generalizations, within what we call the gay community. In order to do so, we have surveyed the studies on sexuality, highlighting the psychosocial space for them. With the intent to clarify the intricate history of homosexuality, its cultural identity and the tension generated by the education of man versus the woman, we have reflected on the repression of the body and the relationship between culture - power and community. Since the contemporary sexuality, together with issues of body, fashion and identity is pervaded by media influences, our approach is to consumption in general and the Culture Industry, in particular, always questioning how the homosexuals perceive themselves within their segment market created by the media. As our intent was to address to their perception on this representation, we made a brief incursion into the history of cinema up to the TV, highlighting the soap opera due to the fact that in interviews conducted in the stage of empirical research, this was one of the most remembered. Once stated that it is in the soap opera that the homosexual community has greater visibility, it is also a great influence on consumerism. Lesbians and gays, when interviewed about their understandings on the homosexual identity and stereotypes, talked about the influence and impact of gay characters on TV, considered by them a positive and negative fact. From their answers, we considered their positions, always examined in the light of the theoretical repertoire used during this framework.

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SCHEINER, ANDREI MOLETTA. "BRANDED ON SKIN: CONSUMPTION, TATTOO AND MASS CULTURE A STUDY ABOUT THE NARRATIVES OF CONSUMPTION BASED ON PRODUCT BRAND TATTOOS". PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2006. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9107@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
O homem não pode lidar com o caos, tem medo daquilo que não pode controlar (seja técnica ou simbolicamente) e, por isso, precisa imprimir sentido às coisas, aos fatos e às pessoas para se sentir bem e poder viver. O corpo humano é um dos espaços primordiais utilizados para a impressão e a narração de sentido: o uso do corpo foi importante, em todos os tempos, como instrumento simbólico e narrativa cultural. Entre as muitas práticas de utilização do corpo está a tatuagem: modo de se inscrever desenhos sob a pele. Na sociedade contemporânea, o fenômeno do consumo se apresenta como poderosa instância de fornecimento de sentido e classificação, operando em todos os espaços sociais, especialmente através da comunicação de massa. Relacionar corpo, consumo e comunicação pode ser portanto uma estratégia positiva para o estudo da relação entre sociedade e sentido. O que acontece quando unimos corpo, consumo, tatuagem e publicidade? Esta dissertação investiga a prática da tatuagem de marcas de produtos e/ou empresas na pele, como forma de operação socializante e individualizante - um interessante caminho para a compreensão das relações sociais promovidas pelo consumo e pelo corpo em nossa sociedade contemporânea.
The human being cannot deal with chaos - being afraid of all that cannot be controlled (either at technical or symbolic level). To ensure a sense of wellbeing, there is a need to attribute meaning to things, facts and people. The human body is one of the primary spaces used for the impression and narrative of meaning: the use of the body has been relevant, throughout time, as a symbolic instrument and cultural narrative. Tattoo - the practice of inscribing images on the skin - is among the many practices of body use. In contemporary society, the phenomenon of consumption is one of the most powerful areas of social classification and attribution of meaning: it operates in all social spaces, mainly through mass communication. A positive strategy for the study of the relationships between society and meaning may be to relate the human body, consumption and communication. What happens when we relate the body, consumption, advertising and tattoo? This dissertation investigates the practice of tattooing product and/or company brands on the skin, as a strategy for individualization and socialization - an interesting pathway towards the comprehension of the social relations provided by consumption and the body in our present society.

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Lamory, Noémie, i Camille Laporte. "The impact of culture on the food consumption process : The case of Sweden from a French perspective". Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-122873.

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The purpose of this study is to examine the extent of which culture influences the food consumption process. More specifically, our research will focus on the consumption process of Swedish consumers, as well as their motivations when buying food products. The overall objective of our research is to analyse the extent of applicability the Swedish model of consumption might possibly have in a country like France with a strong food culture. To conduct our research, a qualitative method was used along with an interpretivist approach. This was in accordance with the overall aim to highlight social and cultural facts by analysing consumer behaviour. Based on the theoretical framework studied in the report, ten in-depth interviews were conducted on Swedish and French students. The findings include good insights and advice that retailers and suppliers in the food industry could use to improve the grocery shopping experience and make it a better fit to the consumers’ expectations. Some limitations could be observed in our research, mainly due to the language barrier, concerning both the research material and the interviews. The results were also influenced by the location of the study and the past experience of the respondents. Further research can be recommended to investigate the effect of food and culture on larger cities and in different locations. Doing so, the findings could give a more representative overview of the food consumption process. The study could also be expanded on different market niches with different age groups allowing comparisons from different generations. Another idea would be to target consumers with varying levels of incomes, in order to see to what extent income influences the food consumption process.

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Arendonk, Ruth van. "Consumer cannibalism : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Religious Studies /". ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/848.

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Zhang, Yaqiong. "The acculturation impact on luxury consumption motivations : a case of Chinese young consumers living in the UK". Thesis, Brunel University, 2017. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/15586.

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Luxury products represent substantial worldwide sales; major markets of luxury products are no longer limited to Western countries, but have also expanded to Eastern "young generation" markets (Zhan and He, 2012). With a rapidly growing economy and globalisation, Chinese young consumers have become an important target for producers of luxury products. According to Wiedmann, Hennings, and Siebels (2009), consumption motivations are derived from values that are connected to cultural background. Nowadays, because Chinese consumers are more engaged with foreign societies, Western culture also produces significant influence on their preferences, motivation and behaviour (Zhan and He, 2012). Although there is extant research which focuses on comparing cross-cultural influences on luxury consumption motivation of Western consumers and Eastern consumers, literature on luxury purchase motivation is only limited to a single country and scholars have ignored the influence of a foreign culture and acculturation on consumers (Beverland, 2004). This cultural study investigates (a) cultural orientation of Chinese young consumers living in the UK; (b) their current luxury consumption motivation; (c) a relationship between cultural orientation and luxury consumption motivation; and (d) if acculturation moderates the relationship. An online questionnaire was used to collect data. This study chose two groups of Chinese young consumers living in London; group one focuses on consumers who have lived in London for less than one year; and group two concentrates on consumers who have been in London for more than five years. In total 488 valid respondents were collected on an official Facebook group named London Chinese Community. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was adapted in this study; findings provide a deeper insight of the acculturation influence on luxury consumption motivations of Chinese young consumers and provide significant implications for both theory and practice.

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Kastoun, Rony J. "Culture change and the consumption of basic foods : the case of Lebanese-Canadians". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ47809.pdf.

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Hart, Dennis. "From tradition to consumption : the rise of a materialist culture in South Korea /". Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10781.

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Zachrel, Kristin Amber Connelly Frances S. "Modern consumption restaurant and café culture in the art of Manet and Degas /". Diss., UMK access, 2008.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Dept. of Art and Art History. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2008.
"A thesis in art history." Typescript. Advisor: Frances S. Connelly. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Sept. 12, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-76). Online version of the print edition.

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Clark, Janine Genevieve. "Regional Planning Solutions to Changing the Culture of Water Consumption in Phoenix, Arizona". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/594938.

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Arizona has put time and effort into drought preparation—with water banking, surface water storage, and laws to dictate water planning for future developments. However, these securities are stretched thin and weakened by the wake of Arizona's rapid development. In this paper I will focus on the state catalyst for growth, and precedent for political decisions: Phoenix. With a political-economic foundation rooted in a culture of consumption, Phoenix has enabled boundless growth within its impermanent borders—gaining population and short-term economic benefits, while losing its unique desert identity. If adjustments are not made to current means of allocation and rates of demand, Phoenix will face a supply gap in the future. These issues are compounded by climate change, which threatens the longevity of surface water supplies. This paper will outline the strengths and highlight the shortfalls of previous water policies and projects, then discuss threats to available supplies. Embodying a desert identity and embracing conservation in both the urbanized area and economy will be key to the future success of Phoenix, as the necessary changes in policies that link water and land use planning will not be possible without an engaged public base.

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Jenkins, Rebecca. "Consumption in the everyday imagination : how consumer culture gives shape to everyday thinking". Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2011. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/18688/.

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This research focuses on consumption in the everyday imagination in order to develop a contextualised understanding of how different aspects of consumption sit in relation to other concerns of everyday life. I consider how the imagination has been approached in consumer research in comparison to other fields concerned with its study and note a rather narrow approach that conceptualises and studies the imagination in terms of pleasurable, future orientated, desire-based daydreams created around consumer goods and experiences, where such goods are considered central to, and key resources in, the creation of imagined scenarios. I argue that the methodological framing of this dominant approach may restrict a broader understanding of the imagination and the role of consumption within it. Drawing from phenomenological interviews with 20 individuals about their everyday experiences of imagining I suggest a reframing of the imagination in consumer research, in which I present a taxonomy of imagination that helps to define and distinguish forms of imagining according to a number of characteristics, specifically the; degree of abstraction; temporal location; level of elaboration; and emotion. It also accounts for different levels of presence for consumption practices, consumer goods and services, and consumer culture, as well as a number of precursors and outcomes for imagining. I further note a number of complexities with regard to imaginative practices and the relationship between the imagination and material reality, including the journey of dream pursuit and actualisation. I consider the imagination as a place where we manage our emotions and outcomes for material reality, but that is also managed by material reality as we think about and imagine in-line with what is likely to transpire so as to prevent disappointment in material reality. And far from a private and individualised sphere, the imagination emerges as a highly social domain. In developing this contextualised understanding I argue that in the imagination we are able to avoid the prominence of consumption practices and consumer goods and services in daily life as we experience a transient autonomy that is conditional on imagining remaining ideal. This autonomy enables us to focus on more warmly human scripts and concerns, yet the pervasiveness of the broader consumer culture continues to provide a compelling narrative to our imagined scenarios, and once attempts at actualisation are made this autonomy is lost.

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Greenfield, Lawrence Frederic. "Toys, children, and the toy industry in a culture of consumption, 1890-1991". The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1247843037.

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Ha, Thi Thuy Duong. "Gastronomic tourism in Vietnam : linking food consumption experience of tourists and culture identity". Rouen, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ROUED009.

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Le tourisme est devenu un des secteurs d'activité les plus importants au monde. Le dynamisme économique qu'il apporte aux pays en développement est une réelle opportunité. De nombreux pays l'ayant compris se livrent à une compétition acharnée et donc mettent en avant leur culture et tradition pour attirer de plus en plus de touristes. La gastronomie d'un pays est un vecteur reconnu de la culture des civilisations, c'est pour cela que cette recherche est basée sur les liens que l'on peut observer entre la culture, la gastronomie et le tourisme. Le dénominateur commun de ces variables et le comportement du touriste en tant que consommateur. L'industrie du tourisme est donc amenée à proposer de plus en plus de services permettant à ses clients de connaître des expériences au plus proche de l'identité culturelle d'un pays. Comment cette industrie du tourisme et ces pays font-ils pour créer cette alchimie ?
Tourism is one of the world's largest industries. Tourism is an attractive tool for economic development, specifically in the developing world. As competition between tourism destinations increases, local culture is becoming and increasingly valuable source of new productsand activities to attract and amuse tourists. Gastronomy has a particularly important role to play in this, not only because food is central to the tourist experience, but also because gastronomy has become a significant source of identity formation in postmodern societies. The present research relies on this latter argument to discuss the influence of food consumption on country or destination identification. Notably, how does food consumption have gained growing interrest in the strategy of tourism development ? Does a destination's gastronomy contribute to the tourist's quality of experiences while visiting the destination ? How can a host country connect food, cultural identity and tourist attraction ? What are the expected benefits in termes of cultural entities from opening up to tourism ?

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Imai, Shiho. "Creating the Nisei market : Japanese American consumer culture in Honolulu, 1920-1941 /". View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3174622.

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shenoy, naina. "Culture of Care : Fostering Circularity of Furniture". Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-87112.

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The rate at which the human race is exhausting the planet’s resources, a transition from a linear economy to a circular economy has become necessary. More importantly the success of circular economy is dependent on the consumer’s everyday actions and practices. This project looks to contribute to that smooth transition at a consumer behavior level of furniture consumption through market actions. It specifically focuses on the sustainable consumption of the sofas to be able to collect data and actionable insights so that it can serve as an example that can be applied to all types of furniture. The project created a framework from literature review on consumer behavior of furniture, sustainability and circular economy. Furthermore, it used several design methods to collect and analyze the data, before arriving at the final design project. The resulting project is called the ‘culture of care’. Based on the collected actionable insights throughout the project, the culture of care project proposes several circular based market actions in the form of service design, product design and product-service design to maintain and repair sofas in the hands of the consumers.

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Kermani, Mohammad. "Exploring Conspicuous Luxury Consumption In Iran: The Role Of Individual Factors and Consumer Knowledge". Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36085.

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This research tested a conceptual model predicting the propensity to engage in two distinct forms of conspicuous consumption (bandwagon and snob consumption) that was developed by Kastanakis and Balabanis (2014) in a collectivistic Iranian context. This study found that this conceptual model was more successful in accounting for the variance in bandwagon consumption (i.e., conformity seeking conspicuous luxury consumption) than snob consumption (i.e., uniqueness seeking conspicuous luxury consumption) in the Iranian context. In addition to status seeking, it was found that consumer susceptibility to normative influence (CSNI) and consumer need for uniqueness (CNFU) mediates the influence of self-concept on bandwagon consumption. This finding suggests that the relationship between snob consumption and CNFU may differ in the Iranian context. Results also show that the relationships between CSNI, unpopular counter choice conformity (a sub-construct of CNFU) and status seeking with bandwagon consumption were all negatively moderated by consumer knowledge for fashion luxury goods. These findings extend the original conspicuous consumption model and provide some insight for the development of marketing strategies in Iran.

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Belisle, Donica. "Consuming producers, retail workers and commodity culture at Eaton's in mid-twentieth-century Toronto". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ63270.pdf.

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Ngai, Chuen-tai Lydia. "Consuming the past". Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B17390643.

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Stavlöt, Ulrika. "Essays on Culture and Trade". Doctoral thesis, Stockholm University, Institute for International Economic Studies, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-327.

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This thesis consists of three self-contained essays. The first two essays address the consumption of culture and are closely related in terms of the theoretical framework used. The third essay is a separate analysis of international trade and competition.

The studies of culture are motivated by the special treatment of culture consumption in most modern societies: there are usually large, government-provided subsidies, the aim of which is to stimulate both the production and the consumption of culture. The purpose of the present work is to explore reasons for this special treatment. Using a stylized theoretical framework, the essays contrast culture with another, generic, good or activity. Culture is thus regarded as an "experience good": previous consumption of the good enhances the current appreciation of the good. The generic good is one where experience is assumed not to be at all relevant for the appreciation of the good. For experience goods, decisions made today will influence future utility and future choices. This makes the intertemporal preferences essential. If, in particular, consumers have time-inconsistent preferences of the type that can be characterized as a present-bias---modeled with "multiple selves" using quasi-geometric discounting---as opposed to standard, time-consistent preferences, there will be a case for government subsidies. The first essay explores this possibility in detail in a framework where experience is mainly of importance in the short run. The second essay then studies cases where experience is more potent and can cause persistent diversity in culture consumption across individuals.

"Culture and Control: Should There Be Large Subsidies to Culture?" studies the circumstances under which public support for culture is warranted. A policy example is designed to illustrate important aspects of public support systems currently in place, and is calibrated to Swedish data. The essay concludes that, given present-biased agents with self-control problems, public support of culture can work as a commitment device and improve long-run welfare. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that welfare-maximizing subsidies to culture can be substantial if the present-bias is profound and the taste-cultivation property of culture consumption is pronounced.

"Origins of the Diversity of Culture Consumption" analyzes the diversity of culture consumption among individuals. If the culture good and the generic good are sufficiently close substitutes in a static sense, very large and persistent differences in the consumption of highbrow culture across consumers can be explained by differences in initial experience levels alone. Moreover, slight differences in preferences and time endowments can cause significant diversity between individuals, both in the long- and short-run levels of culture consumption. In addition, if consumers have time-inconsistent preferences, further diversity can be rationalized. If there is a present-bias, there may also be Pareto-ranked multiple equilibria with "optimism" and "pessimism": high (low) culture consumption of the current self is rationalized, based on the belief that future culture consumption will be high (low).

"Has international competition increased? Estimates of residual demand elasticities in export markets" studies the impact of the last decades of intense economic integration on the competitive conduct of Swedish export industries. The functional relationship between the inverted residual demand elasticity and the Lerner index is used to estimate markups in eight industries. The econometric evidence suggests a deviation from competitive behavior in all industries. Moreover, the results demonstrate a trend of decreasing market power.

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Kendall, Tina Suzanne. "Making waste : disposable culture and the cultural politics of consumption in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature and film /". For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2005. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Bunker, Steven Blair. "Creating Mexican consumer culture in the age of Porfirio Díaz, 1876-1911". Fort Worth, Tex. : Texas Christian University, 2006. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-04202006-160810/unrestricted/bunker.pdf.

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Evans, Julie Marianne. "'Consuming children' : a sociological analysis of children's relationship with contemporary consumer culture". Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/368.

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The aim of this thesis is to identify and understand children's relationships with the world of consumption. Through the children's own narratives a picture emerges of the mediating properties of consumer goods in their wider social and personal friendships. Living in what could be described as a materially divided society this project explores how children make sense of those inequalities and what their experiences are in understanding their own socio-economic position compared to others and how it impacts on their relationships to consumer culture. A particular concern is that such relationships may be more complicated than they seem on the surface and that class has an especially significant impact on children's experience of consumption. The contention here is that the impact of material inequality on an individual's capacity to consume is in the context of the sociology of both consumption and childhood remains largely under-explored. Creative child-centred data collection methods were therefore used in order to prioritise children's 'voices' as a means of understanding the impact of consumption on their lives. This data was further complemented by interviews with parents and in this context parents' management of familial household budgets emerged as having a particularly important influence in determining the role of consumption as a resource in the dynamic that exists between children, their parents and friendship groups. The evidence collected here suggests that the role of consumer goods is central to children's participation in what passes for a 'non-nal' life in contemporary consumer society. Both the children and their parents are acutely aware of this and as such go to inordinate lengths to ensure their children are able to have the appropriate signifiers of inclusion in their peer group networks. Material possessions appear to provide a currency with which children trade, whilst offering them inclusion within their wider personal and social networks. This research has given 'consuming children' a forum within which they can articulate what role consumer goods occupy in their lives on a day-to-day basis and what it means to children if they are unable to participate fully in the society in which they live.

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Enev, Vladislav, i Shkumbin Ibrahimi. "Global Consumer Culture : A qualitative study on how consumers construct global selves through consumption". Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-24262.

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Background: Globalisation is changing the world and our daily lives are governed by products and images originating from other countries and other cultures. Globalisation influences consumer culture and different authors have argued for the emergence of global consumer culture. However, previous literature de-emphasizes what consumer beliefs about the global consumer culture are and how people who believe that they are global try to construct themselves as global in terms of consumption. What are their motives of being global and what kind of needs and wants do they cover by being global consumers? Purpose: To explore and illustrate how consumers try to construct their global selves through consumption. Method: An abductive, qualitative research approach with a combination of exploratory and descriptive research design was chosen. Primary data collection through semi-structured in-depth interviews was conducted among 15 respondents who tried to construct their global selves through consumption. These consumers were selected through a non-probability sampling and interviews took place in Jönköping, Sweden. Conclusion: Consumers try to construct their global selves in a variety of ways, the most common ones are through travelling and engaging in cultural experiences, consuming products from specific countries for certain reasons, and by observing the market as one whole global market, thus not limiting themselves into the boundaries of specific countries, regions or continents. This consumption is then grounded on myths and beliefs that they have accumulated about global consumer culture while gaining experience in different parts of the world. These myths and beliefs are however based on their perceptions towards global consumer culture, not objective reality per se.

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Auchterlonie, Neil Alexander. "Oxygen consumption and bioenergetics of the Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus L.) : implications for culture". Thesis, University of Stirling, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1917.

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Aspects of oxygen consumption and bioenergetics of the Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus L. ) were studied under laboratory conditions. Resting oxygen consumption rate was monitored over 36 hour periods in Atlantic halibut while held individually in open system respirometers. Routine oxygen consumption rate was determined in small populations of tank held Atlantic halibut over 24 hour periods, through modification of tank systems as open system respirometers. Values for resting and routine oxygen consumption in this species were quantified and models Produced enabling the prediction of the energetic cost of homeostasis and spontaneousa ctivity for a range of fish size from 53g to 5861g, at temperatures of 6, 10 and 14°C. These results were ftirther used to form the basis of an energy budget equation for this species. PhotoPeriod influences on the periodicity of respiratory rhythm in both resting and routine oxygen consumption trials were determined through analysis of data recorded throughout the 24 hour daily period. The results indicated a cyclic respiratory rhythm, with peak oxygen consumption often observed nocturnally. The relevance of these results to culture of this organism are discussed. Post-prandial oxygen consumption and ammonia excretion were measured in small populations of tank held Atlantic halibut, these results contributing further information to the partitioning of energy within the metabolic and excretory components of the energy budget equation. Values for resting, routine and postprandial oxygen consumption in the Atlantic halibut were found to be low in comparison to roundfish species, but corresponded closely with literature data produced for other species of temperate marine flatfish. Activity patterns in small populations of Atlantic halibut were monitored over 24 hour periods in a specially constructed film unit. The results of this work showed dualistic patterns of activity over the diurnal cycle. Further elucidation of the energy budget was achieved through the determination of the metabolic costs of activity in the tank environment. Atlantic halibut were observed to remain at rest for periods of between 76% and 94% of any 24 hour period, with the time at rest dependent on fish size and stocking density. One 28 day trial was undertaken in which the components of the energy budget were measured simultaneously, and the balance of the budget investigated. Oxygen consumption, ammonia excretion, growth, feed consumption and faecal production were monitored within a purpose built experimental unit, and these values finther applied to the construction of an energy budget model. Finally, the oxygen consumption data of this study was ftirther applied to produce a model quantifying the water requirements of this species in a single-pass tank system, for the intensive culture of this species in the tank environment. Further development of these figures allowed the quantification of the pumping costs in an Atlantic halibut ongrowing tank system, and these figures were incorporated into a simple economic model. The results present some of the first bioenergetic data produced for this species, and this is an important step towards the development of an Atlantic halibut farming industry.

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