Essays about: "subcultural capital"

Found 3 essays containing the words subcultural capital.

  1. 1. We are Elites and Losers : Constructing Community Identity and Seeking Social Capital in an Online Subcultural Group in China

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Hui Chen; [2021]
    Keywords : Chinese online youth subculture; online community; identity; social capital; subcultural capital; emotional capital; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on the combination of youth subculture and online community in the contemporary Chinese context. It aims to explore the characteristics of the Chinese online youth subculture and how members construct their collective identities and gain alternative social capital in an online subcultural group. READ MORE

  3. 2. Getting paid writing graffiti : How graffiti artists produce value within marketing

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Malcolm Jacobson; [2014]
    Keywords : Graffiti; marketing; commodification; symbolic capital; valorization; cultural criminology; urban sociology; authenticity; art worlds; subcultural capital; street art; Graffiti; marknadsföring; kommodifiering; symboliskt kapital; värdeskapande; kriminologi; urbansociologi; autenticitet; konstvärldar; subkulturellt kapital; street art; gatukonst;

    Abstract : In settings such as hotels, bars and boutiques, things like cars, sodas, clothes, and cities, are fueled with the symbolic capital of graffiti. The purpose of this ethnographic study is to understand how graffiti writers, through marketing, increase the value of their work, as well as that of other products, and how this commercialization affects the meaning of graffiti. READ MORE

  4. 3. Hierarchy through Anarchy : performing punk and the outline to a theory of scene

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Erik Hannerz; [2004]
    Keywords : punkare; livsstilar; subkulturer; punk culture; scene; properties; performance; subculture; crust; stratification; social construction; Sociology; Sociologi; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to analyze and theorize punk and to investigate how punk is being performed. But also to counter previous descriptions of punk as a subculture, counter-culture or field and present the outline to a theory of scene. READ MORE