Search for dissertations about: "Patrik Aspers"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the words Patrik Aspers.
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1. Markets in fashion : a phenomenological approach
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2. The Convaluation of Performance Art : A Study of Peer Recognition Among Performance Artists
Abstract : Processes and forms of valuation, evaluation and valorization are important for bringing contemporary social life in order. In this thesis, I study the values of the small and autonomous avant-garde of the art-world, performance art. READ MORE
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3. Buyers and Sellers on the Stockholm Housing Market
Abstract : Buying and selling housing is for most a very important event that can strongly affect their financial situation. At the same time homes are recognized as places with great importance above and beyond financial matters and in everyday talk and in the previous literature homes are described as safe-havens, status symbols, influencing networks of friends and acquaintances, canvasses for projecting identity, tied to gentrification, segregation and much more. READ MORE
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4. Rehearsing Emotions : The Process of Creating a Role for the Stage
Abstract : This thesis takes as its starting point the dramaturgical metaphor of the world as a stage, which is used in sociological role theories. These theories often presume what stage acting is about in order to use it as a simile for every day acting. READ MORE
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5. Production in a State of Abundance : Valuation and Practice in the Swedish Meat Supply Chain
Abstract : This thesis is a sociological contribution to the study of abundance. It discusses the case of Swedish meat producers and how they persist in producing pork and beef despite a lack of demand and competitive disadvantages compared with foreign suppliers. READ MORE