Essays about: "Simmel"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word 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. "Left, right or something else, it doesn't matter to me": a study of master strategies, impression management, argumentative fallacies and substantiations in alt-right and alt-left discussions online

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Mimmi Thor; [2019]
   Keywords : Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study treats argumentative behaviours, argumentative fallacies, impression management efforts, argument substantiations and master strategies in comments in the Facebook group Det fria ordet. The objective is to create a deeper understanding of how the discussions on the alt-left and -right in an online setting are carried out. READ MORE

4. 3. “Paris Measurements” : The Inertia of the Thin Ideal on the Runways of Paris Fashion Week

   University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi

   Author : Sara Swahnström; Agnes Hultén; [2019]
   Keywords : Thin Ideal; Visual Representation; Idealization; Organizational Ecology; Inertia; Aesthetics; Fashion Week; Paris Fashion Week;

   Abstract : Background - Welcome to the 2010’s and its visual information culture informing about the century-old ideal of thinness, by sending (almost) exclusively thin bodies down the runway of Paris Fashion Week (PFW). This, while at the same time the academia and mass media are repeatedly articulating the necessity of a more ethical aesthetic within the fashion industry, while the argument that “thinness sells” lack empirical support, while measures are taken around Europe to discourage media bias and encourage healthy bodies walking the, and while the body positivity movement – applauding the diversity of body types – is on the rise in the Western society. READ MORE

5. 4. The social game of cohesion and differentiation in sustainable fashion consumption

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Reka Ines Tolg; Sally Lundqvist; [2019]
   Keywords : sustainable fashion consumption; certification labels; identity creation; identity expression; cohesion and differentiation; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The present study is grounded upon the traditional concepts of cohesion and differentiation in fashion by Simmel (1904) and Bourdieu (1984). The study reviewed these concepts in the social context of sustainable fashion consumption, with consideration of identity construction and expression. READ MORE

6. 5. Renewed Shall Be Blade That Was Broken: Tolkien, Modernity and Fascist Utopia

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Joseph Ironside; [2018]
   Keywords : Tolkien Modernity Fascism Modernism Utopia;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of a close reading and meta-analysis of themes and patterns in the works that comprise the fictional world of “Middle-Earth” created by J. R. R. Tolkien, in specific relation to the culturally prevalent views of the decadence of modernity and the ideological dynamics of fascism. READ MORE