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Crowdfunding as a new fenomenon: origins, features and literature review.
No full textCrowdfunding is a relatively new funding practice through wich people living in different areas provide small amounts of money to a project they're interested in. The aim of the chapter is to shed light on this phenomenon focussing on definition and classification of crowdfunding types, motivations for participation and risk associated with this source of fundin
All I’ve gotta do is wank on about some bollocky poem: cool and socially aware positions in the talk of London private school girls
No full textPia Pichler’s chapter explores issues of social class, gender and identity on the basis of informal talk amongst adolescents. She analyses how, through which particular practices, discourses and types of knowledge, four 16-17-year-old London private school girls position themselves in their friendship group and in their wider peer context. She shows how the girls strive to present themselves as cool, streetwise and socially aware despite their privileged backgrounds, and argues that this allows the four friends to differentiate themselves from their posh, sheltered and socially unaware classmates. The alternative private school femininities the group constructs often carry gendered connotations. Working-class femininity is indirectly presented as embarrassing and the girls’ efforts to be cool tend to go hand in hand with a positive evaluation of masculine subject positions. The chapter’s main focus is on the relevance of social class to the girls’ positioning, which is both implicit and explicit in the girls’ talk. Building on Bourdieu’s (1984; 1986) notion of cultural capital and Silverstein’s (2004) work on indexicality, Pichler examines the girls’ local positioning in relation to larger-scale sociocultural meanings. She argues that the girls’ performance of streetwise coolness and their association with ‘real people’ constitutes a pursuit of alternative cultural capital which allows the four friends to construct their identities in opposition to an over-privileged and sheltered private school, upper middle class femininity. Pichler however concludes that this interactive display of (non-highbrow) knowledge about and participation in cultural practises (such as soft drugs use and non-mainstream music) needs to be seen in the context of the young women’s access to dominant cultural capital, including their knowledge of high culture and their private school and future university trajectories, the value of which extends well beyond the girls’ local friendship group
Eros und Erkenntnis: 50 Jahre Adornos 'Ästhetische Theorie'
No full textVor 50 Jahren veröffentlichten Gretel Adorno und Rolf Tiedemann erstmals eine aus dem Nachlass edierte Ausgabe von Theodor W. Adornos Ästhetischer Theorie. Obgleich das von Adorno selbst als opus magnum verstandene Werk unvollendet blieb und nur als posthumes Kompilat erschien, entfaltete es in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhundert eine enorme Wirkung, die weit über den Bereich der philosophischen Ästhetik hinausging.
Renommierte Autoren und Autorinnen unterschiedlicher Disziplinen nehmen das Jubiläum des erstmaligen Erscheinens der Ästhetischen Theorie zum Anlass, diesen Klassiker aus verschiedenen Perspektiven noch einmal neu in den Blick zu nehmen. Neben Essays zur Relevanz und Aktualität der Ästhetischen Theorie für die philosophische Ästhetik im 21. Jahrhundert stehen persönliche Texte, die die Bedeutung des Buches für das je eigene Denken schildern. Darüber hinaus finden sich Beiträge, die der Frage nachgehen, in welcher Weise einetextkritische Neuedition zu einer Relektüre dieses kanonisch gewordenen Textes führen und die Rezeption verändern könnte
On the intergenerational formation and evolution of continuous cultural traits
No full textPichler MM. On the intergenerational formation and evolution of continuous cultural traits. Bielefeld (Germany): Bielefeld University; 2011
The economics of cultural formation of preferences
No full textPichler M. The economics of cultural formation of preferences. Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics. Vol 431. Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld; 2010.This paper introduces a generalized representation of the formation of continuous preferences (which can reflect different intensities). The preference intensity that a child adopts is formed as the collective outcome of all role models for preference intensities - which are derived from the socioeconomic actions of adults - that it socially learns from. We then show how the adopted preference intensities induce preferences over socioeconomic choices. Finally, this cultural formation of preferences process is endogenized as resulting out of optimal parental socialization decisions. This framework thus endogenously determines the intergenerational evolution of preference intensities and the induced preferences
Cultural Formation of Preferences and Assimilation of Cultural Groups
No full textBased on the cultural formation of continuous preferences framework of Pichler (IMW Working Paper No. 431, 2010), this paper analyzes the evolution of preferences and behavior in a two cultural groups setting. We show that the qualitative dynamic properties depend crucially on what parents perceive as the optimal preferences for their children to adopt. Under inter– generationally fixed optimal preferences, the preferences of the cultural groups will always stay distinct. If the optimal preferences coincide with those derived from the representative group behavior, then a multitude of convergence path types can realize. These contain both an inter–generational assimilation process toward the same preference point, as well as inter–generational dissimilation.Continuous Preferences, Assimilation, Cultural Groups, Endogenous Preferences, Preference Evolution, Socialization
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