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Culture and Commerce: The Legitimation of Consumption Practices through Cultural, Normative and Regulative Influence

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Legitimation is a fundamental social process that describes the solidification of disparate practices, meanings, and material structures into a coherent, stable institution. In this dissertation, I study the legitimation of casino gambling as it expanded from 1976 to 2006. While scholars have tended to approach the legitimation process from one...

Keyword:

content analysis, institutions, diffusion, consumer culture, legitimacy, and casinos

Subject:

Marketing

Creator:

Ashlee Humphreys

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

10/02/2018

Date Modified:

10/02/2018

Date Created:

2008-12-05

Resource Type:

Dissertation