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AbstractTitle: Private or public? A study of the content in the celebrity blog and the readers'comments. (Privat eller offentlig? En studie av kändisbloggens innehåll och läsarnaskommentarer)Number of pages: 36 (37 including enclosure)Author: Karoline FrankTutor: Else NygrenCourse: Media and Communication studies CPeriod: Fall semester 2009University: Uppsala UniversityAim: The aim of this study is to examine the boundary between the private and the public asit is expressed in a number of blogs written by Swedish celebrities.Material/Method: Qualitative textual analysis of four blogs written by Swedishcelebrities.The total amount of analyzed blog posts were 120, since 30 posts from each of theblogs were selected. Also the comments on the blog posts, given by the blog readers wereexamined.Main results: The examined blogs written by celebrities contain both issues that can beconsidered as private and public. The celebrities write about their families, especially theirchildren but, also about their partners as well as they write about things such as movies orrestaurants that they recommend. They also express their emotions relatively often. Only twoof the celebrities wrote something that can be considered to associate with their professionbut, only in one blog post each. Also, two of the celebrities made a treatment against media.Keywords: celebrities, blogs, private, public, Thompson, Giddens, qualitative analysis,comments

Academic mobility and migration of knowledge workers are two concerns in international migration studies, so how academic mobility transforms into immigration has received much attention as well. There are two commonly held approaches to the explanation of immigration of international students: the classic Push and Pull theory and its derivative studies as well as Rational Choice Theory (RCT). However, both sets of theories have their drawbacks, that their analysis is either exclusion of the micro-level decision-making process or neglect of the macro-level social structure. In this study, both qualitative and quantitative data are collected, and Giddens structuration theory has been applied to mediate micro and macro level factors for constructing a framework to understand migration motivations of Chinese undergraduate students in Canada. The major conceptions and themes drawn upon from structuration theory include agency and structure, the effects of rules and resources within structures, the capacity and knowledgeability of agent, time-space context, and the theme of duality of structure. Because gender differences are significant in this study, two models are built for female and male students respectively. The practical aim of this study is to generate more policy interests in Canada in Chinese undergraduate students in order to make Canada the foremost destination for them not only for studying abroad but also for settlement.

Academic mobility and migration of knowledge workers are two concerns in international migration studies, so how academic mobility transforms into immigration has received much attention as well. There are two commonly held approaches to the explanation of immigration of international students: the classic Push and Pull theory and its derivative studies as well as Rational Choice Theory (RCT). However, both sets of theories have their drawbacks, that their analysis is either exclusion of the micro-level decision-making process or neglect of the macro-level social structure. In this study, both qualitative and quantitative data are collected, and Giddens structuration theory has been applied to mediate micro and macro level factors for constructing a framework to understand migration motivations of Chinese undergraduate students in Canada. The major conceptions and themes drawn upon from structuration theory include agency and structure, the effects of rules and resources within structures, the capacity and knowledgeability of agent, time-space context, and the theme of duality of structure. Because gender differences are significant in this study, two models are built for female and male students respectively. The practical aim of this study is to generate more policy interests in Canada in Chinese undergraduate students in order to make Canada the foremost destination for them not only for studying abroad but also for settlement.

Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att få reda på hur attityden och hur åsikterna kring nätdejting ser ut hos allmänheten. Med denna studie önskar jag att människor vågar prata mer öppet om nätdejting och i vilken omfattning det förekommer just i deras liv. Frågeställningar:- Hur ser vetskapen om nätdejtingens existens och utbreddhet ut? - Hur vanligt är medlemskap på en dejtingsajt? - Vad har man för attityd och inställning kring dem som nätdejtar? - Anses det vara ett bra dejtningalternativ nu och i framtiden?- Skiljer detta sig åt mellan kön, ålder och datoranvändande? Teoretiska perspektiv: Intimitetens omvandling, modernitetens följder och internet. Metod: Kvantitativ metod med enkäter. Empiri: 80 enkäter delades slumpmässigt ut och frågor kring respondenternas bakgrund, erfarenhet och attityder till nätdejting besvarades. Slutsatser: Hela 90 % hade hört talas om nätdejting men endast hälften hade själva ett medlemskap på en nätdejting sida.Attityden till nätdejting såg olika ut. Att det bara är konstiga och blyga människor som nätdejtar höll majoriteten inte med om. Skillnaden mellan gifta och sambos visade stor skillnad i påståendet om de som nätdejtar skulle vara konstiga. Gifta var övertygade om att de som nätdejtar är konstiga medan sambos var obestämda i frågan.På frågan om man kan lära känna någon på nätet höll 70 % med om. Det fanns de som instämde i att man kan hitta kärleken på nätet men var inte lika övertygade om att man kan lära känna någon på nätet.Som par anses det att man inte bör tala om att man träffats genom nätdejting i samma utsträckning som när man som singel letar efter sin partner på nätet. Nyckelord: nätdejting, Anthony Giddens, genus, attityder, passion, kärlek, expertsystem.

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I denna uppsats använder jag Johannes Anyurus diktsamling Städerna inuti Hall, i en sociologisk diskussion kring samtiden. Min teoretiska utgångspunkt ligger i Anthony Giddens texter kring det senmoderna samhället.    Med syftet att se hur Giddens och Anyurus resonemang kring samtidsindividen skiljer sig åt, samt att utreda om, och hur, sociologin kan lära av poesin, ställer jag frågan: Hur kan senmoderniteten , så som Giddens diskuterar den, spåras i Anyurus Städerna inuti Hall?   För att besvara min fråga definierar jag först vad Giddens menar att senmoderniteten innebär, för att sedan visa på några specifika sätt som han menar att senmoderniteten påverkar individen. Därefter skapar jag ett verktyg för att söka senmoderniteten, så som Giddens beskriver den, i poesin.    Jag finner på en strukturell nivå att det finns stora likheter mellan de två, men på individnivå diskuterar Anyuru och Giddens skilda samhällen. Dess perspektiv och världssyn skiljer sig på flera punkter betänkligt. Framförallt finner jag Anyurus sätt att diskutera själen intressant. Mitt arbete pekar på att det finns skäl för sociologin att reflektera över själens roll för individen, även om vi utgår från den själen endast som en idé. Där vilar en möjlighet för sociologin att utvecklas och ytterligare fördjupa sina kunskaper kring samtiden.

The purpose of this thesis is to offer an exposition of Anthony Giddens¡¦ thoughts on modernity. The terms ¡¥modern¡¦ and ¡¥modernity¡¦ are probably among the most frequently used yet rarely discussed with regards to meaning and connotation. In contemporary social theories, the term modernity is frequently taken as either obsolete or true by definition. In this thesis, I try to interpret Giddens¡¦ ideas on modernity to offer a better purchase on current ideas within the field. In the first chapter, I explain why I think the research on modernity is critical to contemporary social science. Moreover, to explicate Giddens¡¦ thinking, I also discuss Giddens¡¦ academic life and the contemporary academic study in Taiwan of Giddens¡¦ writings. In the second chapter, I briefly describe Giddens¡¦ most widely discussed theory, the Structuration theory, for I think it is the theoretical basis of the thoughts on modernity. I also refer to two important contemporary thinkers¡¦ to trace Giddens¡¦ theoretical background, namely Roy Bhaskar and Jürgen Habermas. In following two chapters, I detail Giddens¡¦ theory of modernity, focusing on its fundamental characteristics, consequences and implications for the study of an increasingly globalized world. In the fifth chapter, I review the criticisms on Giddens¡¦ theory of modernity and try to defend some of those criticisms. In the conclusion chapter, I briefly go through the major points of this thesis and assess Giddens¡¦ insights to the study of modernity.

Texte remanié de: Dissertation Ph. D.--Department of sociology and anthropology--Ramat Gan--Bar Ilan university, 2005. / Bibliogr. p. 87-95.

The inextricable link between muscularity and masculinity has been increasingly accentuated over the past fourty years, resulting in behaviours that can become unhealthy from a variety of perspectives. Gender is often enacted through manipulating and altering morphologies which can ultimately affect the way one perceives her or his own body. This thesis introduces the term megamusculinity, embodying the links between corporality, muscularity and masculinity. Primarily affecting men, megamusculinity is an exemplar of gender performance where one follows strict dietary and exercise regimens in the pursuit of (gross)muscularity. Much of the academic discussion of gender and body perception focuses primarily upon body size. Shifting the emphasis from body size to regimes of the self, this analysis posits megamusculinity and eating disorders as parallel pursuits, not antithetical realms of extreme morphologies. Foucauldian logic will be blended with Anthony Giddens’ structuration theory to examine megamusculinity as gender performativity with a multitude of social underpinnings. In a world where rules and resources (following Giddens’ articulation of structures) shape everything individuals do, what is occurring in the case of megamusculinity is individuals are actively creating a hypertrophied reality by negotiating their way through the disciplinary constraints of various social structures. This thesis builds upon the psychological construction of muscle dysmorphia as a clinical disorder and introduces megamusculinity, situated not as a “personal trouble of milieu” but a “public issue of social structure” (Mills 1959: 8). In doing so, this thesis will demonstrate that the body perception disturbances of certain men are influenced by experiences with particular social factors/institutions, and positions megamusculinity parallel to eating disorders by focusing upon the regimes of the self involved in altering one’s morphology. / Thesis (Master, Sociology) -- Queen's University, 2010-12-22 20:42:33.636