Essays about: "late modernity"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 20 essays containing the words late modernity.

  1. 16. 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. 17. “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

  4. 18. Induction and Commitment : A discursive psychological analysis of Nynas’ Induction Program and its influence on employee’s commitment

    University essay from Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier

    Author : Ville Björck; [2011]
    Keywords : induction program; Corporate Group Induction; social constructionism; discourse analysis; discursive psychology; discursively constructed; reflexivity; commitment; affective; continuance; normative; Likert scale; late modernity; strategic sampling.;

    Abstract : Abstract In accordance with several scholars in the field of human resource management, developing employee commitment towards the employing organization is valuable due to the assumption that it increases their satisfaction, productivity and adaptability. By taking a pedagogical perspective focusing on impact processes, the aim of this master thesis is primarily to identify the constructions and functions of interpretive repertoires, of a few employees, in their descriptions of how the experience of Nynas’ Corporate Group Induction has influenced their commitment to Nynas, but also to categorize the constructions and functions of interpretive repertoires in a booklet underlined during the Corporate Group Induction, which I refer to as “This is Nynas”. READ MORE

  5. 19. ‘I am an Anorexic’: Tensions in Discursive Relationships of Gender, Identity and Health Through a Case Study of a Pro-Anorexia Website

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

    Author : Stephanie Flanagan; [2011]
    Keywords : Pro-ana; anorexia; late modernity; identity; critical discourse analysis; online communities; reappropriation; Technology and Engineering; Medicine and Health Sciences; Cultural Sciences; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Despite the vast amount of research done around anorexia nervosa, anorexia as an identity, rather than only a disease, has barely been explored. Within Giddens' 'late modernity' concept, the growth of technology has caused individuals to use machines as mirrors to evaluate their image within society. READ MORE

  6. 20. Litteraturstödet, en fot i graven? : En kontextuell analys av den ideologiska grunden till Boken – Litteraturutredningens huvudbetänkande och Betänkande av Kulturutredningen 2009

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap

    Author : Rikard Zeylon Brage; Joakim Barvhed; [2010]
    Keywords : Information society; Information Age; quality; Aspectual politic; Swedish National Arts Council; Literature grant; Cultural politic; Diversity; Cultural andeconomy; Keynesian economics; Late modernity; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This essay is about two of the most important surveys concerning cultural politics in Sweden. The first is the survey Boken – Litteraturutredningens huvudbetänkande/1968 års litteraturutredning from 1974, which was a part of the groundwork for the politics concerning literature in Sweden. READ MORE