Essays about: "symbolic meanings"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 46 essays containing the words symbolic meanings.

1. 6. Identity Construction through Consumer Collectives: A qualitative study on how consumers construct their identity within the beauty community on Tiktok

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Isabella Rammasi; Karólína Pétursdóttir; [2022]
   Keywords : Tiktok; Identity Creation; Consumer Collectives; Beauty Products; Consumer Tribes; Subcultures; Business and Economics; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The study aims to develop an understanding of how consumers construct their identities through online communities on social media platforms. The paper will specifically look into the platform Tiktok, and moreover how consumers construct their identities within the beauty community on the platform. READ MORE

3. 7. Rainbow-Washing on Screen: Perceptions of 21st Century Popular Media Representations of Queer Identities in a Comparison between Sweden and Czechia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Elizabeth Hythova; [2022]
   Keywords : queer representation; stereotypes in popular media; social constructionism; heteronormativity; othering of minorities; queer theory; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates how queer people perceive queer representations in popular media (film and TV) produced in recent years and how such representations affect queer people’s identity and self-perception, as well as how they mirror and reproduce heteronormative understandings of queerness. A cultural comparison between Czechia and Sweden in perceptions of heteronormativity and queer representations and media is also made. READ MORE

4. 8. Family Socialisation & Construction of Environmental Meaning : A study of family units as socialisation agents in which environmental discourses are created through the interactions of family members

   University essay from Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

   Author : Victoria Cassola; [2022]
   Keywords : Family socialisation; Primary socialisation; Family communication; Environmental awareness; Environmental communication; Eco-anxiety;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates how environmental meaning is constructed within families, considered as units of socialisation, and what role family members play in it. Family socialisation is a dynamic moment in which family members interact and generate meanings, values, beliefs and habits. READ MORE

5. 9. Aesthetic appreciation of landscapes contributing for national identity : case of Ethiopian landscapes

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

   Author : Kidus Kibebew; [2021]
   Keywords : cultural perspective; multi-culture; social cohesion; aesthetics; cultural landscapes; national identity; Ethiopian landscape;

   Abstract : Landscape conceptions impact national identity. Identity addresses the matters in the features of the physical world but also the relationships, memories, and symbolic meanings linked to the physical landscape. Since a landscape's context is made up of a complex web of past interactions and future aspirations. READ MORE

6. 10. Thick Love : A Psychoanalytical Study of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för utbildningsvetenskap

   Author : Khuteibe Hashim; [2021]
   Keywords : Psychoanalytical Criticism; Sigmund Freud; Jacques Lacan; Julia Kristeva; Beloved; Toni Morrison; Abjection; Semiotic; Symbolic; Imaginary; Mirror-stage; Defense Mechanism;

   Abstract : This study employs psychoanalytical theories to explore how the conscious, unconscious, and subconscious workings of the mind, combined with a search for identity, are presented and dealt with in Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved (1987). It is done through a close reading and in-depth textual analysis of thematic concerns raised in the work. READ MORE