Essays about: "Erving Goffman"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 40 essays containing the words Erving Goffman.

1. 16. What is a Food Bank?: A cultural analytical exploration of the paradoxes and potentials of stakeholder definitions and interrelations

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Hannah Brown; [2019]
   Keywords : food bank; gift-economy; dramaturgy; philanthropy; altruism; volunteering; donations; food waste; MACA; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : Summer 2018 I worked with a recycling coalition in the United States to investigate food waste as a topic essential in promoting environmental sustainability. We banded together with QFB, a large food bank, to focus on the problem of food waste in their food rescue process. READ MORE

3. 17. Finland's Biggest Dress Party : A Study of the Role of Women's Appearances at the Independence Day Reception

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Modevetenskap

   Author : Viivi Laakkonen; [2018]
   Keywords : dress; fashion; communication; media representation; Independence Day reception; fashion studies; media studies; semiology; fashion media discourse; Linnan juhlat;

   Abstract : Finland’s Biggest Dress Party – A Study of the Role of Women’s Appearances at the Independence Day Reception, aims to understand the role of dresses at Finland’s Independence Day Reception by focusing on how the reception has earned a title “Finland’s biggest dress party”, and meanings behind the dresses. The aims are studied combining fashion and media studies in three analytical chapters focusing on the media’s development and influence, how the dresses work as a communication tool and what kind of messages are sent through dresses, and Finnishness and national identity in the dresses. READ MORE

4. 18. Oh, I feel like a woman! : A qualitative semiotic gender study through texts and images in the Swedish fashion remote commerce

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för modevetenskap

   Author : Emma Krysell; Jannie Somehagen; [2018]
   Keywords : fashion; advertisement; gender; stereotypes; remote commerce; mail-order catalogues; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : Oh! I feel like a woman! – A qualitative semiotic gender study through texts and images in the Swedish fashion remote commerce is a bachelor thesis on how clothes are portrayed in illustrations and photographs of models and in texts in mail-order catalogues and websites in the Swedish fashion remote commerce. The thesis aims to compare how genders and fashion are connected and manifested in the fashion remote commerce by portraying different gender stereotypes. READ MORE

5. 19. Education in Conflict and Crisis : The case of Kurdish refugees from Syria in Turkey

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier

   Author : Nubin Ciziri; [2018]
   Keywords : refugee; education; capital owning; stigma; strategies;

   Abstract : Underpinned by Pierre Bourdieu and Abdelmalek Sayad’s sociological theories and Erving Goffman’s theory of social stigma, this study bridges the ideas of these three sociologists by examining the relationship of capital owning, stigma, migration and the strategies immigrant families build towards education around these notions. With the aim of exploring the role of education for refugee immigrants, the research area has been restricted to a specific city in the South-East of Turkey. READ MORE

6. 20. West above the rest? – Investigating the depiction of Caucasian western characters in Japanese Cinema

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Loui Halse; [2018]
   Keywords : Foreigners in Japan; Nihon-jinron; Japanese cinema; Minorities; Media Semiotics; Labelling theory; Stereotypes; Discrimination; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The primary aim of this thesis is to analyze and uncover stereotypes concerning Caucasian westerners among Japanese citizens. This is done by looking into recent Japanese cinema in order to analyze how Caucasian westerners are displayed in the movies in which they appear. READ MORE