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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...

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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

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10/02/2018

Date Created:

2008-12-05

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Dissertation
Minority Communities in Times of Conflict: Civil War in Lebanon and Syria

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My dissertation examines group dynamics of minority populations during times of violent conflict. By applying a comparative analysis to case studies drawn from the conflicts in Lebanon and Syria, I shed light on how and why minority groups decide to join a conflict, stay on the sidelines, go it alone,...

Keyword:

institutions, Syria, conflict, and Lebanon

Subject:

Middle Eastern studies and Political science

Creator:

Lee, Sean

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/12/2020

Date Created:

2019-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_686155 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14830

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