Essays about: "Senmodernitet"

Found 2 essays containing the word Senmodernitet.

1. 1. On the Possibilities and Impossibilities of Love : Mapping the discursive field of love-relationships, its components, conflicts and challenges

   University essay from Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle (HOS)

   Author : Jacob Strandell; [2012]
   Keywords : love; relationships; intimacy; contradictions; late modernity; discourse; risk; risk-diminishing; Michel Foucault; Anthony Giddens; Zygmunt Bauman; Ulrich Beck; Sasha Roseneil; kärlek; relationer; intimtet; motsättningar; senmodernitet; diskurs; risk; riskhantering; Michel Foucault; Anthony Giddens; Zygmunt Bauman; Ulrich Beck; Sasha Roseneil;

   Abstract : In this thesis I reframe theories of love-relationships in late modernity (by Anthony Giddens, Zygmunt Bauman and Ulrich Beck & Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim) in relation to a general framework of discursive theory (inspired by Michel Foucault). I suggest that current developments and contradictions in the field of love-relationships with advantage can be understood in terms of discourse and discursive conflict. READ MORE

3. 2. “You are what you eat” : modernity and the construction of self-identity in healthy eating discourses in a case of digital media

   University essay from Institutionen för medicin och hälsa; Hälsouniversitetet

   Author : Daniela Trocilo Tavares Genovez; [2011]
   Keywords : Late modernity; self-identity; healthy lifestyles; food; media discourse; Senmodernitet; självidentitet; hälsosam livstil; mat; mediadiskurs; Modernidade tardia; identidades; comida; estilos de vida saudáveis; discursos midiáticos;

   Abstract : The present study aims at the discussion of the contemporary forms of construction of selfidentity through the perspective prompted by the transformations ocurring in the health field. The increasing influence of the health promotional discourses in the media is reflected in the personal sphere, through the popularization of the “healthy lifestyles”. READ MORE