Date of Award

1-1-2017

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Sociology

Content Description

1 online resource (xiii, 332 pages)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Ronald N. Jacobs

Committee Members

Elizabeth P. Berman, Richard Lachmann

Keywords

Cultural Sociology, Culture, Economic Crises, Narratives, Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009, Financial crises, Mass media and culture, Mass media and business, Fiscal policy

Subject Categories

Sociology

Abstract

This dissertation aims to examine how the public debate of two large scale economic crises is structured in the media, using semiotic and narrative analysis methods. The End-of-the-Century crisis (Colombia, 1998) and the Great Recession are explored through a 2x2 comparative design, which provides two cases of coverage (per country) for each crisis. Within a comparative design, economic crises, events that are part of the economic sphere, and countries that are part of the Global North and of the Global North are chosen to assess the scope conditions of key tenets of cultural sociology scholarship.

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