Essays about: "inconspicuous consumption"

Found 3 essays containing the words inconspicuous consumption.

  1. 1. Time to purchase your ownhouse : The resistance of housing investments againstmacroeconomic shocks

    University essay from KTH/Fastigheter och byggande

    Author : Quinglin Ouyang; [2020]
    Keywords : House price index; Sharpe ratio; macroeconomic shocks; vector auto-regression; bostadsprisindex; Sharpe ratio; makroekonomiska chocker; vektor autoregressiva-modeller;

    Abstract : Housing is both a durable good and an investment vehicle, which makes it importantin people’s daily life aswell as for a nation’s economy. This thesis innovatively applies the Sharpe ratio on evaluating the performance of the US residentialhousing market within the time period from 2005:Q1 to 2019:Q3, andinvestigates how this performance would react upon macroeconomic shocks,including sudden changes in GDP growth rate and personal income growthrate, by establishing a vector auto-regression model with the lag order of four. READ MORE

  3. 2. Fashioning the political statement : A qualitative study into the duality of postfashion

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för modevetenskap

    Author : Sara Milosavljevic; [2017]
    Keywords : cultural capital; haute couture; luxury; postfashion; commodification; political struggles; inconspicuous consumption; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to examine the interrelationship between contemporary French luxury fashion and political struggles by examining the garments with explicit political statements from the ready-to-wear spring/summer 2015 Chanel runway, the ready-to-wear spring/summer 2017 Dior runway and the menswear fall/winter 2017 Balenciaga runway analysis as to discern the possible reasons and effects of the making of these statements. The focus of this thesis is to examine the way political struggles, as immaterial social relationships, can be commodified into garments, as according to the Marxist situationist theories of Guy Debord, and how the commodification in question by haute couture houses, rich with the sociological notion of cultural capital as described by Pierre Bourdieu, can have a potential effect on the formation of both fashion discourses and political discourses by using Foucauldian discourse analysis. READ MORE

  4. 3. Foodies: How status is manifested in the kitchen

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Fabiana Cristina Leal; Susana Arellano; [2012]
    Keywords : Status; Foodie; Food Consumption; Knowledge; Authenticity; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Purpose: This research explores how status is manifested within the foodie culture. More specifically, we explored how foodies claim status and express inconspicuous meanings through their food consumption practices. READ MORE