TY - THES A1 - Persello, Mara T1 - Subcultures creating culture T1 - Subcultures creating culture T1 - Subcultures creating culture BT - semiotica e studi culturali a confronto nell'interpretazione della sottocultura glam BT - eine Konfrontation der Methoden der Semiotik und Cultural Studies zur Interpretation der Subkultur des Glam-Rock BT - semiotics and cultural studies interpreting Glam Rock N2 - The purpose of this work is to apply the methods of textual semiotics to subcultures, in particular to the little known glam subculture. Subcultures have been the main research field of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, known for its interdisciplinary approach, and for its focus on the creative aspects of subculture. Hebdige, in particular, introduced many semiotic elements in his work, as the aberrant decoding after Eco and the cultural creativity via bricolage after Lévi-Strauss. His definition of subculture as symbolic resistance has been criticized by the following post-subcultural researchers for its abstractness and lack of cohesion. Semiotics eventually have been expelled from the set of tools used in sociology for the analysis of subcultures. Nowadays, the studies on subcultures have a strong ethnographic focus. Due to terminological proliferation and a descriptive approach, it is difficult to compare them on a common basis. Textual semiotics, through the concept of semiosphere developed by Lotman, allows to go back to the intuitions of Hebdige, organizing the semiotic elements already present in his work into a wider system of interpretation. The semiosphere offers a coherent theoretical horizon as a basis for further analysis, and a new methodological perspective focusing on the cultural. In this thesis for the first time the work of Lotman is applied to the study of a subculture. N2 - In vorliegender Arbeit werden Methoden der Textsemiotik auf die Sozialwissenschaften übertragen, um durch eine gegenseitige Übersetzung zentraler Konzepte die Möglichkeit einer Zusammenarbeit zwischen den beiden Disziplinen vorzuschlagen. Das dabei entwickelte Methodendesign wird zur Analyse der noch wenig untersuchten Subkultur des Glam-Rock angewendet, um eine neue methodische Perspektivierung von Subkulturen vorzuschlagen. KW - Glam Rock KW - Kultursemiotik KW - cultural studies KW - Semiotik KW - Subkultur KW - Glam Rock KW - Italien KW - semiotics KW - subculture KW - Italy KW - semiotica KW - sottocultura KW - Glam Rock KW - Italia Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-104891 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Grossi, Giuseppe A1 - Reichard, Christoph A1 - Ruggiero, Pasquale T1 - Appropriateness and Use of Performance Information in the Budgeting Process: Some Experiences from German and Italian Municipalities JF - Sports medicine N2 - This article contributes to the debate on the use of performance information in the context of public sector performance management. Based on case studies, the authors analyze the appropriateness of the performance information provided in the newly established performance budgets of municipalities in Germany and Italy. They also examine the interest of politicians and senior managers in using such information for decision-making and monitoring within the municipal budget cycle. They find that the use of performance information is generally quite modest, and that the interest of different local actors varies to a great extent. Politicians are generally less interested in such information than top managers, particularly chief financial officers. The results are discussed by applying a theoretical framework based on institutional and legitimacy theories, and are compared with the literature on performance information use. KW - Italy KW - Germany KW - local government KW - performance budget KW - performance information use KW - performance management Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/15309576.2015.1137770 SN - 1530-9576 SN - 1557-9271 VL - 39 SP - 581 EP - 606 PB - Springer CY - Abingdon ER -