Thesis (M.S.) -- Mississippi State University. Department of Sociology, Athropology, and Social Work. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

The dissertation thesis deals with socio-cultural problems of suburbanization with a focus on green widows as a phenomenon of contemporary society. Green widows are defined as a specific group of suburban inhabitants and most often they are characterized as "wives of wealthy businessmen living in detached houses in the suburbs, their husbands leave every day for work in the central part of town and women stay alone in the green on the outskirts." The main benefit of the dissertation thesis is a summary of available knowledge about green widows and creating a comprehensive view on these issues associated with ongoing suburbanization processes; foreign research and knowledge are also reflected in the work. The most important finding is that phenomenon of green widows - in the sense of how the term "green widow" is generally defined - is perceived within the Czech Republic as a problematic topic mainly of the media. Phenomenon of green widows is not accidental, but it is currently overcome in the context of the Czech Republic, according to the author. Gradually disappears, and if really exists, so only to a limited extent, than to be described as a major socio- cultural problem of contemporary Czech society. The main part of the dissertation thesis is a qualitative research carried out in 2017 and...

1 Abstract The thesis explores the role of the contemporary underground subculture. The study critically deals with the "underground myth": the idea that the underground community had a major influence on the fall of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. The last topic is the role of Voknoviny, a magazine considered a fundamental medium of the current subculture. The theoretical part of the work focuses on history of the underground subculture. Furthermore, the theoretical part describes popular culture and subcultures theories. Also, the historians' view of the normalization proces and the role the underground played in the fall of the communist regime. The principal part of the work analyses interviews with four figures of the underground community. The research sample was designed to cover the main significant "structures and institutions" of the underground. The analysis of the interviews is complemented by the content analysis of the Voknoviny magazine. The results show that while the current underground is based on the tradition of its pre-revolution predecessor, it now fits within the dominant society framework. The interviewees agreed that the role of the underground in the collapse of the communist regime lied primarily on uniting the opposition. Although Voknoviny has a larger readership than...

Les ensembles à vent existent dans toute l’Europe. Ils sont un trait de culture partagé. La miseà jour d’une sub-culture fanfaristique s’effectue à partir des comparaisons, migrations,circulations, étudiées à travers les ensembles à vent et par emboîtement d’échelles. A partird’exemples représentatifs, pris à hauteur d’Hommes, l’existence d’un modèle européen de lafanfare, dans son fonctionnement, son image, son rôle… est mis au jour. Pluriels, les ensemblesà vent ne sont pas des copies parfaites, mais de nombreux points communs permettent demodéliser cette pratique socioculturelle.Même si pour beaucoup au second XXe siècle, le mouvement orphéonique relève du passé,notre étude des ensembles à vent débute dans les années 1940 avec la Seconde Guerre Mondialepuis la Libération, et s’achève dans les années 1980 marquées par un tournant social, politiqueet culturel. Plus que sur le déclin, la fanfare est, au cours de la période, en mutation. Inventé auXIXe siècle, l’ensemble à vent répond à une triple définition. Il s’agit tout d’abord d’unensemble d’instruments à vent (cuivres et bois) et de percussions joués par des musiciensamateurs. La fanfare est également un orchestre de plein air. Enfin, c’est une musique qui «marche », qui défile pour animer la cité.La nature même de cette pratique musicale collective, effectuée par des musiciens nonprofessionnels, inclut une dimension sociale capitale. Autour de cette pratique récréative, seforme un groupe avec ses sociabilités, qui le cimentent. Les ensembles à vent répondent aussià une demande sociale multiple et notamment un rôle d’éducation populaire.L’ensemble à vent apparaît comme un modèle transnational qui possède une réelle identité.Inclassable, il n’appartient ni à la culture populaire, ni à la culture savante. La catégorisationentre une culture dominée et une culture dominante doit être remise en cause au profit d’uneautonomisation des normes de valeurs et de l’abolition des hiérarchies. Le fonctionnement, toutcomme les appropriations qu’il subit et qu’il réalise, plaident en faveur d’une autonomisationdes ensembles à vent. Ils sont une pratique et un genre autonome et reconnaissable dans toutel’Europe. / Wind ensembles exist all over Europe. They are a shared cultural feature. The exposure of aband sub-culture is established from comparisons, migrations, circulations, through windensembles, and interlocking at various levels. Drawing from representative examples, on aperspective centered on Man, the existence of a European standard for brass-bands, in itsoperation, image, role is brought forward. In their varied nature, wind ensembles are not perfectduplicates, but many common features make a modelling of such a sociocultural practicepossible.Even though, for many, in the second half of the twentieth century, brass-band culture was athing of the past, our study of wind ensembles begins in the 1940s with the Second World War,then the Liberation, and ends in the 1980s with its social, political and cultural turning point.Rather than being declining, brass bands were, over the period, evolving sharply. Invented inthe nineteenth century, the wind ensemble meets three different definitions. It is first anensemble of wind instruments (brass and woodwind) and percussions played by amateurmusicians. Brass-bands is also an outdoor orchestra. Finally, it is a “marching” music, one thatparades to animate the city.The very nature of this collective music-making, carried out by non-professional musiciansincludes a major social dimension. Around this recreational activity, a group gathers, and iscemented by its sociabilities. Wind ensembles also respond to a multiple social demand, inparticular a role in popular education.The wind ensemble appears as a transnational model with a full identity. Unclassifiable, itbelongs neither to popular culture, nor to high brow culture. The categorization betweendominated and dominant culture should be called into question. Empowering standards as wellas abolishing hierarchies must be promoted instead. Its functioning as well as the ownerships itis subjected to and it achieves, advocates for an empowerment of wind ensembles. They are anautonomous and recognizable practice throughout Europe.

Over the last ten years Internet become substantial information and communication tool for all age and social groups of Society, but it has a specific status among the younger generations. This thesis understands the Internet as a virtual environment which supports the formation of new Youth subcultures and also the communication of currently existing subcultures. Theoretical part defines the basic terms and concepts (Youth, socialization, identity, culture, subculture, and counterculture) which correspond with the orientation in researched environment. The thesis characterizes also virtual environment, computer games and psychosocial aspects of these worlds. The practical part is based on qualitative research study (depth interviews) of the subculture of the on-line computer games players. The data gathered by depth interviews were processed on the basis of the methods of grounded theory.

Submitted by Irene Nascimento (irene.kessia@ufpe.br) on 2017-04-11T17:06:03Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Experiência de Consumo de um Grupo Urbano em um Espaço Natural Ambientado na Praia..pdf: 1956269 bytes, checksum: 902dea2422a03eb1f30bd7d07f61c064 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-11T17:06:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Experiência de Consumo de um Grupo Urbano em um Espaço Natural Ambientado na Praia..pdf: 1956269 bytes, checksum: 902dea2422a03eb1f30bd7d07f61c064 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-09-30 / Capes / A presente dissertação teve como objetivo explorar a relação existente entre um espaço natural ambientado para a oferta de experiências de consumo e a identificação de uma tribo urbana formada em função desta relação. A pesquisa foi realizada em uma barraca da praia de Boa Viagem na cidade do Recife, Pernambuco escolhida pela sua diferenciação física e social das demais barracas dispostas na faixa de areia da mesma praia. Foi feita uma revisão de literatura na qual foram abordados conceitos que iam além daqueles tratados na bibliografia tradicional do Marketing, incluindo teorias advindas das Ciências Sociais e da Arquitetura e Urbanismo, como no caso das noções de Tribos Urbanas e Ambiência respectivamente. O outro construto exposto foi o de Experiências de Consumo. A metodologia utilizada foi a etnografia visto que esta é a abordagem adequada ao estudo de um grupo e à compreensão de suas concepções, práticas, experiências e comportamentos. Por meio de observação participante, entrevistas não estruturadas e uso de fotografias foram exploradas as experiências de consumo de um grupo formado em função de um espaço natural ambientado. A discussão dos dados possibilitou a conclusão de que a barraca estudada se transformou em uma ambiência socioespacial que possibilitou a identificação de pessoas com estilos de vida e objetivos de consumo em comum e que, este agrupamento, acabou por formar uma tribo urbana reunida em torno de valores de ligação sociais que se destacou dentro de uma subcultura de consumo mais ampla, a de praia. / The aim of this dissertation was to explore the relationship between a natural space acclimated to the supply of consumer experiences and the identification of an urban tribe formed as a result of this relationship. The survey was conducted in a tent at Boa Viagem beach in Recife, Pernambuco chosen for their physical and social differentiation from other tents arranged in the same stretch of sand beach. A literature review was made in which were addressed concepts that went beyond those treated in the traditional bibliography of Marketing, including theories arising from the Social Sciences and Architecture and Urbanism, as in the case of Urban Tribes notions and Ambience respectively. The other construct approached was that of consumption experiences. The methodology used was ethnography as this is the appropriate approach to the study of a group and understanding of their views, practices, experiences and behaviors of consumption. Through participant observation, unstructured interviews and use of photographs were explored the consumer experience of the urban tribe in that natural space acclimated. A discussion of the data led to the conclusion that the site studied formed a socio-spatial environment that enabled the identification of people with lifestyles and consumption objectives in common and that this grouping, eventually formed an urban tribe around social binding values that are highlighted within a subculture broader intake, beach.

A presente dissertação busca delimitações de termos mais legitimados - a partir da indústria da moda e da cultura hegemônica - para então compreender indefinições e alguns de seus fluxos aparentemente incoerentes. Partindo de uma compreensão dos estudos de moda e da linguagem legitimada de moda, investigará as possibilidades de modas ditas alternativas, suas nuances e formalizações. Para isso são capturadas e analisadas imagens de frequentadores da região do Baixo Augusta na cidade de São Paulo, levando em consideração e como contextualização conceitualizações como sociologia da moda e do consumo, difusões de tendências, cultura e subcultura, tribos urbanas, moda e anti-moda, imagem, processos de dados, complexidade e emergência / The present work seeks delineations of the most legitimized terms - on the fashion industry and the hegemonic culture - and then understand uncertainties and some of their apparently incoherent flows. Beginning with an understanding of fashion studies and fashion industry legitimated language, investigate the possibilities of so-called alternative fashions, nuances and formalizations. For this, are taken and analysed images of goers of Baixo Augusta area in Sao Paulo city, taking into account and as contextualization concepts in sociology of fashion and consumption, broadcasts trends, culture and subculture, urban tribes, fashion and anti-fashion, image, data processes, complexity and emergence

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No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação_Isabel Silveira_biblioteca.pdf: 1234551 bytes, checksum: aaf3ef6192d3d3526d8658a30cc43dc3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-29 / The purpose of this dissertation is to identify how the subculture belonging to the MMA influence in shaping the identity of their members, exploring the aspects related to the consumption as a vehicle for transmission of symbolic meanings. The theoretical foundation which has supported the research addresses issues discussed in the literature with regard to culture and consumption (Barbosa and Campbell, 2006; McCracken, 2003), the subcultures of consumption (Kozinets, 2001, Schouten and McAlexander, 1995), and to the process of identity formation through consumpt ion (Barbosa and Campbell, 2006; McCracken, 2003). This study has exploratory and an explanatory nature , searching through the ethnographic method to explore the cultural universe that works as the background of the questions addressed and then identify the factors that determine or contribute to the process of identity formation in a subculture of consumption. Data were collected over one year of field research, carried out in a martial arts academy in Rio de Janeiro. During the research , it was possible to collect informat ion about the day-by-day of members of this subculture and the relationships that are formed from this consumer activity. Also individual interviews were conducted from a semi-structured script, aiming at understanding how these consumers find themselves within the subculture and how interprets the MMA as a lifestyle and provider of values . 14 interviews were conducted with consumers both female and male, between the ages of 19 and 45 years living in the city of Rio de Janeiro, between January and November 2011. In order to achieve the proposed objectives, a qualitative research method was chose, focusing on the comprehension of the meanings of the facts, through analysis of small samples of the population, trying to understand the facts without necessarily measure them. The results showed that being part of a subculture doesn’t necessarily imply the creation of an identity based on the object of consume. Some steps need to be fulfilled, and in the case of MMA, not just the commitment: to be accepted by the group, demonstrate specific skills and make a proper use of the fight are, for example, basic requirements for achieving new positions within the subculture, and thus gain an identity representative of this group. / O objetivo desta dissertação é identificar de que forma o pertencimento à subcultura de MMA influencia na formação da identidade de seus membros, explorando os aspectos relacionados ao consumo como veículo de transmissão de significados simbólicos. O embasamento teórico que deu sustentação à pesquisa aborda questões discutidas pela literatura no que diz respeito à cultura e consumo (Barbosa e Campbell, 2006; McCracken, 2003), às subculturas de consumo (Kozinets, 2001; Schouten e McAlexander, 1995) e ao processo de formação da identidade por meio do consumo (Barbosa e Campbell, 2006; McCracken, 2003). Este estudo tem caráter explicativo e exploratório, buscando, através do método etnográfico, explorar o universo cultural que funciona como pano de fundo das questões abordadas para então identificar os fatores que determinam ou contribuem para o processo de formação de identidade em uma subcultura de consumo. Os dados foram coletados ao longo de 1 ano de pesquisa de campo, realizada em uma academia de artes marciais no Rio de Janeiro. Ao longo da pesquisa, foi possível coletar informações sobre o dia-a-dia dos membros desta subcultura e das relações que se formam a partir desta atividade. Também foram realizadas entrevistas individuais por meio de um roteiro semi-estruturado, visando a compreensão da forma como estes consumidores se vêem dentro da subcultura e como interpretam o MMA enquanto estilo de vida e provedor de valores. Foram realizadas 14 entrevistas junto a consumidores, tanto do sexo feminino quanto do masculino, entre idades de 19 e 45 anos, residentes na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, entre janeiro e novembro de 2011. Para que se pudesse atingir os objetivos propostos, optou-se por um método de pesquisa qualitativa, privilegiando assim a compreensão dos significados dos fatos, por meio da análise de pequenas amostras da população, procurando entender os fatos sem necessariamente mensurá-los. Os resultados demonstraram que fazer parte de uma subcultura não implica, necessariamente, na constituição de uma identidade baseada no objeto de consumo. Para tanto, algumas etapas precisam ser cumpridas, e no caso do MMA, não basta o empenho: ser aceito pelo grupo, demonstrar habilidades específicas e fazer um uso adequado da luta são, por exemplo, requisitos básicos para alcançar novas posições dentro da subcultura, e consequentemente, conquistar uma identidade representativa deste grupo.

Ce travail doctoral consiste en une considération de la nature complexe et ambivalente des relations qui sont tissées entre "culture dominante "("mainstream") et sous-cultures contestataires "underground", à travers l’examen du cas de la sous-culture punk, et plus spécifiquement, du cas de la sous-culture punk féministe américaine (sous la forme du courant "riot grrrl" notamment). En nous appuyant sur les discours des actrices et acteurs de ces sphères féministes et anticapitalistes d’une part, et d’autre part sur la production théorique à laquelle ont pu donner lieu les phénomènes sous-culturels marginaux et/ou contestataires, en particulier depuis la fin des années 1970, nous souhaitons mener une réflexion sur le rôle social que peut revêtir ce genre de regroupements sociaux. De quel(s) sens leurs protagonistes investissent-t-ils leurs pratiques ? Quel peut être l’objectif d’une telle démarche, si tant est qu’il y en ait un ? Par ailleurs, il s’agit également de s’interroger sur le concept de subversion : où peut-encore se situer un éventuel potentiel disruptif, dans une société qui, comme l’ont déjà souligné beaucoup de penseurs, ainsi que beaucoup des détracteurs de cette "idéologie dominante", semble en dernière analyse assez bien s’alimenter, paradoxalement, de sa critique. Ce sont ces questionnements qui sous-tendent, dans le cadre d’une dernière partie, la mise en perspective diachronique du punk que nous proposons, en comparant cette tendance avec les réjouissances carnavalesques médiévales telles que les a décrites Mikhaïl Bakhtine, et avec l’esprit dionysiaque que Nietzsche s’est employé à cerner. / This dissertation seeks to analyze the complex and ambivalent relationships that exist between mainstream "dominant" culture and oppositional underground subcultures, through the study of American feminist punk subculture (notably under the form initiated by the riot grrrl networks). By confronting the views and discourses expressed by insiders of this feminist and anticapitalist subculture on the one hand, and drawing from the theoretical background of subcultural studies on the other hand, we want to examine the social function of these types of networks. How do insiders conceive their own involvement and their subcultural practices? What is the purpose of an anti-establishment underground subculture, if ever there is one? We also seek to question the concept of subversion: is it possible for a subcultural group to exert a disruptive potential in a society that apparently largely feeds on criticism of itself. We will sketch out some answers to these issues in the last part of this work by drawing some parallels between punk and feminist punk subcultures, medieval carnivalesque practices as they are described by Mikhaïl Bakhtin, and the Dionysian spirit depicted by Nietzsche.

This dissertation begins with the problem that local church leaders, Sunday school teachers and adult youth leaders do not have a holistic understanding of what youth ministry is or how to start with youth ministry. And there is a wide gap between adults and the youth because they do not have enough information about today’s youth. Youth ministry has been viewed as something separate from the main church. But the inclusive congregational approach is that youth ministry is part of a comprehensive congregational ministry with a differentiated and focused way, to, with and through youth as an integral part of the church. This dissertation looks into the literature on theories of child development, today’s youth, family, mentoring, and confirmation to understand youth in the church. Church leaders and teachers need enough information about the youth and must be aware of the youth’s developmental needs. Especially church leaders and teachers must work with the parents of the youth to focus on strong Christian education to connect the generations. They have to respond to the youth’s crucial questions and issues of today. Then the youth can find what God intends them to become. This research focused on 73 church leaders and teachers in 11 WEMI (World Evangelical Mission International) churches in South Africa. A high percentage of the respondents understood the concept of youth ministry. But their main problem or difficulty remained the lack of training to understand youth and the biblical text. The results of empirical research presented the actual condition of youth ministry in WEMI churches in South Africa. The churches have to prepare intentional and strategic training for teachers to get enough information about today’s youth, teaching and communication skill, leadership development, counselling and knowledge of the Bible. When the church leaders and teachers are equipped and trained for God’s work, the youth ministry will be built up strongly in the local church, and the youth will find themselves as the body of Christ. / Dissertation (MA Theol)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / gm2014 / Practical Theology / unrestricted