ABSTRACT: Beauty is an objective reality, not a myth. For some time, the biological sciences, sociobiology and sociology have demonstrated the role of beauty as a factor influencing a number of life circumstances. Recently the theory of erotic capital has…
ABSTRACT: Consumer culture in the era of late modernity undergoes dynamic changes of global significance. One of the key attributes of these changes constitutes an increasing supply of opportunities and quantitative volumes of different product options. However, this trait of…
ABSTRACT: Brands are an important element of consumer culture. They represent communication of symbolic meanings, in which they are realised, and confirm critical aspects in social, cultural and psychological life contexts. Not only is the function of brands to explain…
The circumstances of transition of the society of deficit into the society of welfare have been a subject of intense sociological studies. The society of material abundance creates specific life conditions, increasingly focused on non-material values and subjective experience. In…
The circumstances of transition of the society of deficit into the society of welfare have been a subject of intense sociological studies. The society of material abundance creates specific life conditions, increasingly focused on non-material values and subjective experience. In…
Knowledge society faces the challenges to the universalization of education. A changeover from massificationto universalization of education brings new views on the role and functions of education, and of course, on the contents of knowledge mediated by a tertiary education…
Knowledge society faces the challenges to the universalization of education. A changeover from massificationto universalization of education brings new views on the role and functions of education, and of course, on the contents of knowledge mediated by a tertiary education…
A discourse of the term identity is very unambiguous in social sciences. However, there is a prevailing opinion that identity is a social construct which is characterised by plurality of identifi cation relationships. Identity as a non-variable and stable quality…
A discourse of the term identity is very unambiguous in social sciences. However, there is a prevailing opinion that identity is a social construct which is characterised by plurality of identifi cation relationships. Identity as a non-variable and stable quality…
Within the late modernity discourse attention has been drawn to the intensifying process of individualization. This process is being accelerated and affected by de-institutionalization and de-stratifi cation – both processes resulting from the crisis of organised modernity. Individualization does not…