Mapping symbolic (anti-) consumption [PDF]
, 2009 Rejection is at the heart of anti-consumption and is therefore key to some of the central relationships in symbolic consumption. However, researchers find rejection difficult to study because of the lack of material traces.
Stephenson, C A +2 more
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Technology as text: the changing meanings of the fixed and mobile telephone
Comunicação e Sociedade, 2012 Recent sociological studies of the mobile phone and the fixed line telephone have drawn attention to the changing meanings of communications technologies.
John Cawood
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From Indifference to Hostility: Police Officers, Organisational Responses and the Symbolic Value of ‘In-Service’ Higher Education in Policing [PDF]
, 2017 The relationship between Higher Education (HE) and the knowledge and skill requirements of police officers remains a contentious policy area in England. This paper addresses experiences of 31 officers from a large urban force who have undertaken HE level
Hallenberg, Katja M. +5 more
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Symbolic values and aesthetics in the design of interior spaces
الاكاديمي, 2021 The current research deals with studying the aesthetics of symbolic values in the design of internal spaces and their connotations through their existence as a material value, as well as the symbolic meanings and their connotations that touch the ...
Ban Ahmed Ibrahim
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Green consumption: the role of perceived symbolic value and personal innovativeness [PDF]
Journal of Responsible Production and ConsumptionPurpose – This study aims to explore the relationship between personal innovativeness, perceived symbolic value and green purchase intentions within the context of sustainable consumption.
Albert Hasudungan +1 more
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Symbolic Analysis for Boundary Problems: From Rewriting to Parametrized Groebner Bases [PDF]
, 2010 We review our algebraic framework for linear boundary problems (concentrating on ordinary differential equations). Its starting point is an appropriate algebraization of the domain of functions, which we have named integro-differential algebras.
Regensburger, Georg +4 more
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Energies, 2022 The aim of this study was to examine consumers’ opinions toward adopting electric vehicles (EVs) for light-duty transport in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from the functional value (i.e., the utility or benefit attained by consumers from the functions ...
Robert M. Bridi +2 more
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Capturing film festival buzz: The methodological dilemma of measuring symbolic value
NECSUS, 2020 Film festivals have long been associated with ephemeral value creation, from the dynamic energy associated with the festival experience to the more static traces of cultural capital that remain once the events are over.
Diane Burgess
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The Value Shift of IKEA in the Context of Consumer Society Transformation: The Mechanism of Symbolic Premium in DIY Furniture Processes [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesUnder the background of the transformation of the consumer society, this study, based on Baudrillard’s three-value theory and symbolic value theory, adopts case studies and textual discourse analysis to construct a three-stage value transformation model.
Zheng Kexin
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Symbolic Values, Value Formation and Interpersonal Relations [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 Interpersonal relations are shaped by the judgements associated with the social categories that individuals perceive in their social contacts. I develop a model of how those judgments form based on a theory of symbolic values. The model depicts the interaction between two values, one associated with an inherited ethnic trait (nationality) and one with ...
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