Presented in the session “Bioarchaeological signatures of violence and aggression."

This is a qualitative case study conducted to investigate the relationship between consumers who are brand loyal to a certain product and the groups that are formed to bring these enthusiasts together, using the Chevrolet Corvette and its community as a model. Qualitative research lends itself to studying relationships and social situations, in being able to observe and participate in a social context, rather than analyzing it from the outside looking in. By approaching this subject as a case study, an element of flexibility was allowed. This study primarily focuses on one main phenomena, the social groups formed by loyal consumers. The specific context studied is the Chevrolet Corvette's community. By using in-depth interviews of Corvette enthusiasts, owners and company employees, a deeper understanding of why people are loyal to a product and how they use enthusiast clubs to sustain their loyalty will be uncovered. Those interviewed were asked open-ended questions pertaining to their feelings about the community they are a part of, and the brand they are loyal to. A qualitative, ethnographic approach was taken, and interviews were conducted more as conversations than as formal, structured interviews. Through participant observation at various Corvette events, the researcher compared what participants said and what they were observed doing. Participants are from varying backgrounds, ages and genders as to provide a broad base of information. Data gathered were analyzed using grounded theory, a research method that seeks to develop theory that is grounded in data systematically gathered. Grounded theory allows for a continuous interplay between data collection and analysis. Three overarching themes were constructed to organize the data, with various sub-categories to further explain the findings. The results of this study have shown that the object of enthusiasm, in this case the Chevrolet Corvette, is the basis for social interaction between owners and those involved with the car. While the physical car must uphold a superior standard, the consumer loyalty shown in this community is reinforced through interpersonal relationships formed with others sharing a common interest of enthusiasm for the automobile. The research has shown that there is a linkage between media efforts, automobile purchase, and social interaction. A cycle is formed from company executives releasing information and marketing to the public, inspiring consumers to purchase the car, and the community reinforces their purchase decision and fosters their brand loyalty.

Title from PDF of title page. / Document formatted into pages; contains 94 pages. / Thesis (M.A.)--University of South Florida, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. / Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. / ABSTRACT: This is a qualitative case study conducted to investigate the relationship between consumers who are brand loyal to a certain product and the groups that are formed to bring these enthusiasts together, using the Chevrolet Corvette and its community as a model. Qualitative research lends itself to studying relationships and social situations, in being able to observe and participate in a social context, rather than analyzing it from the outside looking in. By approaching this subject as a case study, an element of flexibility was allowed. This study primarily focuses on one main phenomena, the social groups formed by loyal consumers. The specific context studied is the Chevrolet Corvette's community. / ABSTRACT: By using in-depth interviews of Corvette enthusiasts, owners and company employees, a deeper understanding of why people are loyal to a product and how they use enthusiast clubs to sustain their loyalty will be uncovered. Those interviewed were asked open-ended questions pertaining to their feelings about the community they are a part of, and the brand they are loyal to. A qualitative, ethnographic approach was taken, and interviews were conducted more as conversations than as formal, structured interviews. Through participant observation at various Corvette events, the researcher compared what participants said and what they were observed doing. Participants are from varying backgrounds, ages and genders as to provide a broad base of information. Data gathered were analyzed using grounded theory, a research method that seeks to develop theory that is grounded in data systematically gathered. / ABSTRACT: Grounded theory allows for a continuous interplay between data collection and analysis. Three overarching themes were constructed to organize the data, with various sub-categories to further explain the findings. The results of this study have shown that the object of enthusiasm, in this case the Chevrolet Corvette, is the basis for social interaction between owners and those involved with the car. While the physical car must uphold a superior standard, the consumer loyalty shown in this community is reinforced through interpersonal relationships formed with others sharing a common interest of enthusiasm for the automobile. The research has shown that there is a linkage between media efforts, automobile purchase, and social interaction. A cycle is formed from company executives releasing information and marketing to the public, inspiring consumers to purchase the car, and the community reinforces their purchase decision and fosters their brand loyalty. / System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader. / Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Presented in the Gray Fossil Site Lecture Series

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T13:42:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Afonso Ferreira Verner.pdf: 2999862 bytes, checksum: fb0f0f3863c2b4315bb04700330a539c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-09 / The research problematizes the ritualization of death, made by newspapers from Ponta Grossa. From the choice of four cases, spread over a period of 14 years (1998-2012), it presents an analysis of the coverage of newspaperss Diário dos Campos, Jornal da Manhã e Diário da Manhã. The violent death, in these periodicals, was ritualized between the extraordinary and the ordinary, result of a routine event or as a fact that destabilizes the series of daily and expected events, mobilizing responses from society and the journalistic narrative. The violent death composed, almost daily, the world portrait offered by the periodicals to the audience. Besides the analysis of the "Bruxo do Guaragi", 1998; Sônia Rocha, 1999; the death of the Agda model, 2011 and the mother responsible for the murders of the children in Palmeira, in the Campos Gerais region, in 2012, were discussed the daily death, found on the pages of the newspapers during the coverage period of the cases chosen. This analysis enabled a discussion about how newspapers makes the death event a vital substrate for the composition of the news and the world portrait presented to the audience. In addition, the study illustrates the use that journalistic narrative uses of imagery and textual aspects to make violent death an event presented among variations of "tragic", "macabre", "extraordinary", "shocking" and "shocking" up until death recorded in a protocolary way and without major significance in the news. / A pesquisa problematiza a ritualização do acontecimento morte feita pelos jornais impressos de Ponta Grossa. A partir da escolha de quatro casos, espalhados em um período temporal de 14 anos (1998-2012), apresenta-se uma análise das coberturas dos jornais Diário dos Campos, Jornal da Manhã e Diário da Manhã. A morte violenta, nesses periódicos, foi ritualizada entre o extraordinário e o ordinário, fruto de um acontecimento rotineiro ou como um fato que desestabiliza a série de aconteceres cotidianos e esperados, mobilizando respostas da sociedade e da própria narrativa jornalística. O óbito violento compôs, quase que diariamente, o retrato de mundo oferecido pelos periódicos à audiência. Além da análise dos casos do “Bruxo do Guaragi”, 1998; Sônia Rocha, 1999; Morte da modelo Agda, 2011 e a mãe responsável pelos assassinatos dos filhos em Palmeira, na região dos Campos Gerais em 2012, também foi discutida a morte tida como cotidiana, encontrada nas páginas dos jornaisdurante o período de cobertura dos casos escolhidos. Esse corpus de análise possibilitou uma discussão sobre como os jornais fazem do acontecimento morte um substrato vital para a composição do noticiário e do retrato de mundo apresentado à audiência. Além disso, o estudo ilustra a utilização que a narrativa jornalística faz de aspectos imagéticos e textuais para fazer do óbito violento um acontecimento apresentado entre variações da morte “trágica”, “macabra”, “extraordinária”, “comovente” e “chocante” até o óbito registrado de maneira protocolar e sem maiores significações.

Thesis (M.S.)--Miami University, Dept. of Family Studies and Social Work, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 19-21).

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Research into how one can create architecture that will last beyond the foreseeable future. Part ONE is research based, building up a manifesto based on; structural integrity, aesthetic longevity, programmatic adaptability and cultural relevance. The research is based on observing historical architecture from the past 2,000 years, both looking into how the buildings have stood the test of time physically, but also why they might remain attractive, analysing the comings and goings of beauty through time. The research is compiled and represented through suggested ideal ways of designing each of the architectural elements, such as the wall, window, door, threshold or stair. Part TWO applies the research to a case study; the extension and renovation of the Royal Palace in Stockholm, in order to turn the residence into a public building, with the extension functioning as a connection point between the city landscape and the palace beyond. The design has no specific programme other than allowing the palace complex to be used by the public, as they wish, for the future to come. A large part of the design is essentially made up of sculptural urban landscaping, colonnaded and vaulted walkways both interacting with the waterfront, and bringing the public up to the level of the palace which today stands behind tall walls. Whilst internally the new building functions as an entrance hall with necessary facilities, and creates a route into the existing palace.

This graduate report is a description of my artistic development through the graduate program at the University of Texas at Austin. It records my development and growth as an artist in relationship to the concepts, materials, and processes I have been investigating and exploring in the past three years. The graduate report focuses on three important concerns to which I’ve been dedicated. First, materials are imperative to my work. I physically collect and use my father’s ordinary objects and transform them with raw materials, such as clay, flour, honey, chocolate, beeswax, and petroleum jelly. The decision of choosing raw materials is based on my personal and cultural experiences. I am particularly interested in exploiting raw materials because I believe these raw materials can trigger a particular memory, place, or relationship that I want to preserve and remember. Second, my process of making involves ritualistic aspects with repetitive acts. I believe that everyday practices are a way of reconstructing relationships and remembering home. I am interested in embracing emotional attributes that may be simple activities: spraying a piece daily to keep it wet or sewing a personal object until it is impossible to sew. Finally, through the relationship among the objects, repeated actions, and an anticipation that evokes magical power and charged energy, I methodically transform objects. I do this to celebrate emotions and to preserve not only these personal objects but also my memories of home. / text

This thesis concerns six Swedish paintings depicting sick or convalescent individuals; Richard Bergh’s Konvalescent (unfinished, 1886), Flickan och Döden (1888), Eva Bonnier’s Magdalena (1887), Gustaf Magnusson’s Konvalescent (1933), Jenny Nyström’s Konvalescenten (1884), and Georg Pauli’s Vid sjukbädden (1885). The purpose of this study is to examine how sickness is portrayed and staged using performative theory and visual semiotics. The thesis takes into account that tuberculosis, being a widespread disease during the 18th and 19th Century, made it a topic of exploration in the contemporary art. With this as the framework the thesis examines whether or not it is possible to diagnose the depicted individuals. The results shows that sickness first and foremost is portrayed and staged in signs regarding the body: the face, the hands, and how the body is posed. Lastly, it is suggested that these artworks can be seen as cultural symbols of TB, since not being viable for a strictly medicinal diagnosis they are more the result of the contemporary need to examine TB and its effects on society and culture. The paintings becomes – such as a body is a vessel for a disease – vessels for the disease culturally speaking.