Essays about: "social conventions"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 77 essays containing the words social conventions.

  1. 6. Sexy 16-Year-Old Baby-Eater: Gendered, Sexualized, and Racialized Discourses in Exalted, Second Edition

    University essay from Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi

    Author : Niels-Martin Ström Josefsen; [2021-11-26]
    Keywords : Roleplaying games; Exalted; feminist post-structural discourse analysis; representation; geek culture; race; gender; sexuality; Dungeons Dragons; discourses; White Wolf; misogyny; fantasy; genre subversion; social constructivism; media tropes; monstrous women; monstrous motherhood; infantilization; trans representation; sexualization; animalization;

    Abstract : Previous research finds roleplaying games, as well as the wider spectrum of geek culture that they exist within, to be defined by discourses favoring a white, heterosexual, cis-male viewpoint, drawing up and reproducing stereotypes and tropes that are inherently misogynist, homophobic, and racist. Heretofore, research into discourses of gender, sexuality, and race in roleplaying games has focused overwhelmingly on market leader Dungeons & Dragons (1971- ongoing), largely neglecting to scrutinize other well-established titles that may adhere to or break from the same tendencies. READ MORE

  3. 7. A Critique of Anna Stilz' Fair-use Proviso : The normative significance of future generations in matters of territorial rights

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för praktisk filosofi

    Author : William Bådagård; [2020]
    Keywords : territorial rights; occupancy rights; future generations; moral obligations; primitive rights;

    Abstract : In this essay, I will examine the theory of territorial rights developed by Anna Stilz. The overarching project of hers is to defend a system of territorially sovereign states, the defense of which is grounded in the natural rights of individuals to personal autonomy and self-preservation. READ MORE

  4. 8. Consumer Research in the 2000s and 2010s: A Quantitative Assessment and Qualitative Review

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : William Hagströmer; [2020]
    Keywords : consumer research; consumer culture theory; bibliometric mapping; VOS; VOSviewer; scientific fields; Pierre Bourdieu; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis presents and analyses the results of a bibliometric mapping study of the field of consumer research between 2000 and 2019, aiming to provide a simultaneously descriptive and analytical account of consumer research that identifies the overall structure of the field, as well as the major sub-specializations within it. By utilizing Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory and sociology of science, I analyse the central tendencies exhibited by consumer researchers with regards to the conventions they follow, the literatures they draw from and the way they relate to each other’s texts. READ MORE

  5. 9. Reasoning and rationale behind the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme in the aviation sector

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Adam Elias Laugesen; [2020]
    Keywords : Aviation; ICAO; CORSIA; Offsetting; Governmentality; Sustainability Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : To reach the Paris-agreement target of no more than a 1,5 to 2 degree rise in global temperature, CO2 emissions need to reach net zero by 2050. This includes emissions from aviation. The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has been designated emission reduction responsibility for transnational emissions. READ MORE

  6. 10. The Making of ‘Sustainable Consumerism’ - A critical discourse analysis of the discourse of sustainability found in Oatly’s product advertisements

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Lindkvist Julia; [2020]
    Keywords : critical discourse analysis; AIDA; advertising strategies; sustainability discourse; Oatly;

    Abstract : With the help of various advertising strategies this study addresses the Swedish, plant-basedfood-production company Oatly, and their advertisements to see how the discourse onsustainability is approached. By using critical discourse analysis, and primarily Fairclough’sthree-dimensional-model for analysing discourse (1989, 1995) as well as the marketingframework AIDA, these advertisements have been analysed to see how the companymanages to tempt and persuade their consumers into consumption. READ MORE