Essays about: "Georg Simmel"

Found 3 essays containing the words Georg Simmel.

  1. 1. Money Matters: A Cultural Analysis of the Experiences and Expectations of American Students in Sweden Regarding Tuition Fees

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Audrey Savage; [2020]
    Keywords : American students; Sweden; education; tuition; money; educational value; USA; valuation; cost analysis; habitus; academic field; commodification of education; the knowledge economy; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis analyzes the experiences and expectations of American students conducting full-time master’s studies in Sweden and how their monetary valuation of education, demonstrated through paying tuition, impacts their studies. This thesis additionally aims to explore how students adapt a specific academic habitus during their US educational experiences that they, in turn, bring with them to study in Sweden. READ MORE

  3. 2. The passionate economy of graffiti and street art : Building social cohesion through art collecting

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Malcolm Jacobson; [2017]
    Keywords : Economic sociology; social cohesion; boundary work; materiality; art worlds; graffiti; street art; sociology of emotions; cultural sociology;

    Abstract : This study examines how social cohesion is built through exchange of urban art. Graffiti and street art are treated like dirt and washed away. Unsanctioned art is often perceived as alien to museums and private homes. Despite this, many graffiti and street artists produce art in studios that are sold in galleries as urban art. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Secret Writer

    University essay from Konstfack/Institutionen för Konst (K)

    Author : Tomas Chaffe; [2013]
    Keywords : secrets; artistic research; artwork; context; site specific; telecommunication; Ericsson; germany; second world war; Geheimschreiber; cryptography; apps; Swedish Intelligence; reveal; privacy; private; public; transparency; Google; privacy policy; mobile phone hacking; WikiLeaks; offshore banking; FRA; FRA-law; Simmel; Telefonplan; Midsommarkransen; Tomas Chaffe; Thomas Chaffe; LM Ericsson; apparat; Vigo Lindstein; Arne Beurling; Professor of Mathematics Uppsala; LM-staden; LM-city; Försvarets Radioanstalt; phonehacking; Sissela Bok; Georg Simmel; Cypherpunk; Micah Sifry; Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency; orwellian; freedom; contemporary art; interactive; telephone;

    Abstract : This essay reflects a particular method and way of working that I employ when undertaking artistic research. My artworks are rooted and develop from the situation I find myself in as an artist, the very context I exhibit the work within. I do this by trying to understand this position, both on the micro and macro scale. READ MORE