Search for dissertations about: "home and consumer studies"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 28 swedish dissertations containing the words home and consumer studies.

2. 6. "We're made of meat, so why should we eat vegetables?" : food discourses in the school subject home and consumer studies

   Author : Ingela Bohm; Agneta Hörnell; Gun Åbacka; Carita Bengs; Hilary Janks; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Critical food literacy; discourse analysis; food sociology; health education; home economics; Kostvetenskap; Food and Nutrition;

   Abstract : Background: Food has many different functions. On a physical level, it is needed to survive and to maintain health, but it also has many social, psychological, and emotional meanings. For example, food is used to build relationships, to mark hierarchies, to celebrate holidays, and to influence mood and self-image. READ MORE

4. 7. Gender Transculturation : Navigating Market-Mediated Contesting Gender Ideologies in Consumer Acculturation

   Author : Hossain Shahriar; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Consumer Acculturation; Gender; Transculturation; Ideologies; Discourses; Egalitarian; Transgressive; Islamic; Immigrant; Consumer Culture; Marketplace; Navigation; Sweden; Bangladesh;

   Abstract : In this book, I advance the concept of gender transculturation to illustrate how migrant consumers navigate contesting gender ideologies in their host cultural marketplace. Taking a consumer cultural theoretical perspective, the study lies in the nexus of and unpacks an alternative understanding in the current research frontier of consumer acculturation, gender and ideologies. READ MORE

5. 8. Ready meals from the consumers' perspective : attitudes, beliefs, contexts and appropriateness

   Author : Mia Prim; Inga-Britt Gustafsson; Gunnar Hall; John Edwards; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : attitude; consumer; context; food choice; meal; ready meal; situation; attityd; färdigmat; konsument; kontext; matval; måltid; situation; Culinary Arts and Meal Science; Måltidskunskap; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Måltidskunskap; Culinary Arts and Meal Science;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to gain a deeper understanding of ready meal consumers and their demands regarding ready meal products in different situations. Data were gathered with one extensive postal survey and five focus group discussions. READ MORE

6. 9. Last-mile delivery services in retail : a consumer-centric approach

   Author : John Olsson; Förpackningslogistik; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Unattended home delivery; customer experience; customer expectations; circular business model innovation;

   Abstract : The retail industry faces a multitude of complex sustainability challenges, which calls for transformational change. While the retail industry is a major driver of production and consumption patterns, it also offers significant potential to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. READ MORE

7. 10. Performing Co-production : On the logic and practice of shopping at IKEA

   Author : Frida Andersson; Irene Molina; Susan Smith; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; performativity; IKEA; experiential retailing; consumer studies; branding; materiality; shopping; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; kulturgeografi; Social and Economic Geography;

   Abstract : Contemporary western society has often been described as a “consumer society” in relation to the producer oriented form that characterised the industrial society. While consumer habits used to be seen as a reflection of a person’s occupational status or place in a stable societal hierarchy, it has now become recognised as a practice through which people’s identity and status is partially defined by the choices they make as consumers. READ MORE