Essays about: "cultural sociology"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 76 essays containing the words cultural sociology.

  1. 6. The Sounds of Our World: Navigating Live Music and Artist Growth in Harare

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Annika Medin; [2023]
    Keywords : live music; zimbabwe; harare; urban sociology; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Increasingly connected to urban development and vitality in modern discourses of urban sociology, live music is a social and cultural phenomenon with great potential for improving people’s, including artists, well-being. Still, the systems and networks which shape live music are specific to their local social, cultural and institutional contexts, leading to a range of perceptions. READ MORE

  2. 7. “Pardon me if I don't weep for your victimhood” : examining the aftermath of deplatformization through influential far-right activists’ framing and alliance-building on Telegram

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Klara Avsec; [2023]
    Keywords : Moderation; deplatformization; far right; frame analysis; collective identity; alliance-building; Telegram; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the social unfolding of the recent deplatformization of the far-right extremes on Telegram. Leaving prior approaches to moderation behind, this study asks questions around how moderation imprints itself on the complex terrain of meaning and practice, interacts with intensified reflexiveness of the social agents, and leaves affected collectivities changed in unanticipated ways. READ MORE

  3. 8. This is our rule of law! An ethnography of the rule of law among the “No Green Pass” activists in Italy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Gian Luca Traverso; [2022]
    Keywords : Sociology of rule of law; Sociology of constitutional law; Italian legal culture; resistance studies; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this thesis focuses on the bottom-up conceptualisation of the notion of rule of law, developed by a group of activists against a COVID vaccine passport enforced in Italy (so-called Green Pass), and their subsequent everyday acts of resistance. By using a multimodal digital ethnography methodology, centred on both in-person and digital informal encounters, this explorative case study conducts a thematic analysis of how the concept of the rule of law, usually the prerogative of legal professionals, legal scholars and politicians, is understood and by a group of “No Green Pass activists” in Italy and subsequently used as a cultural underpinning to develop silent resistant strategies against the Green Pass itself. READ MORE

  4. 9. PRECARIZATION IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM - An ethnographic study of the working and living conditions of early non-institutional performing arts groups in Gothenburg

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Liliana Farcas; [2021-10-21]
    Keywords : governmental precarization; freedom; non-institutional performing arts groups; public funding system; cultural policy; interdependency; power;

    Abstract : In Swedish theatre history, the period 1965–2000 is seen as a time of emergency and establishment of the non-institutional performing arts field and is referred to as the “expansion period”. The performing arts’ field expanded due to the non-institutional performing arts groups, known as the “free groups”, which started to perform in new places, to experiment artistically, to meet new audiences and to raise social questions. READ MORE

  5. 10. A Systematic Review of Social work education and training programs in palliative and end-of-life care

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

    Author : Hang Li; [2021-01-13]
    Keywords : social work; education and training programs; palliative and end-of-life care;

    Abstract : Background: The advanced modern medicine and people’s open-minded attitudes about death call for the development of palliative and end-of-life care. Patients and their family members also promote higher requirement to the professionals and the quality and quantity of the service. READ MORE