I need to dress better! : relating concerns with appearance to places.

I need to dress better! : relating concerns with appearance to places.

This paper seeks to explain NTU undergraduates’ fluctuating levels of concern for their appearance in everyday life through the concept of the “strangeness” of places. The differences in concerns are examined by looking at the elaborateness of rituals that respondents do after waking up, while the c...

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Main Author: Chia, Wan Ping.
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2010
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-226572019-12-10T11:58:33Z I need to dress better! : relating concerns with appearance to places. Chia, Wan Ping. School of Humanities and Social Sciences Genaro Castro-Vázquez DRNTU::Social sciences This paper seeks to explain NTU undergraduates’ fluctuating levels of concern for their appearance in everyday life through the concept of the “strangeness” of places. The differences in concerns are examined by looking at the elaborateness of rituals that respondents do after waking up, while the concept of the “strange” is drawn upon Georg Simmel’s concept of the “stranger”. Fourteen NTU undergraduates of Chinese ethnicity were interviewed. Findings show that generally, the “stranger” a place is to the respondents, the more concerned they will be with their appearance. Bachelor of Arts 2010-04-01T03:08:10Z 2010-04-01T03:08:10Z 2010 2010 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/22657 en Nanyang Technological University 37 p. application/pdf
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Chia, Wan Ping.
I need to dress better! : relating concerns with appearance to places.
description This paper seeks to explain NTU undergraduates’ fluctuating levels of concern for their appearance in everyday life through the concept of the “strangeness” of places. The differences in concerns are examined by looking at the elaborateness of rituals that respondents do after waking up, while the concept of the “strange” is drawn upon Georg Simmel’s concept of the “stranger”. Fourteen NTU undergraduates of Chinese ethnicity were interviewed. Findings show that generally, the “stranger” a place is to the respondents, the more concerned they will be with their appearance.
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title I need to dress better! : relating concerns with appearance to places.
title_short I need to dress better! : relating concerns with appearance to places.
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title_full_unstemmed I need to dress better! : relating concerns with appearance to places.
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