The person in the womb. By N. J. Berrell. Dodd, Mead, New York. 179 pp. 1968

Stone, Shirley M.

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“…As audiences grew disenchanted with hearing aids’ association with luxury, producers found inspiration in a new cultural trend: medicalization (see Figure 4). In the postwar era, increased focus on medicalization had changed perceptions of the medical professions from artful to scientific by promoting the ideas of science’s power to control the human body, the doctor as savior, and scientific advances as human emancipation (Friedson, 1970; Zola, 1972; Berg, 1995; Serlin, 2004; Starr, 2008). Categories such as surgical procedures and prosthetic devices became icons of medicalization.…”

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The Aesthetic Evolution of Product Categories

Krabbe

Grodal

2023

Administrative Science Quarterly

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Most literature on aesthetic innovation has focused on single producers who use radical aesthetic innovation to differentiate their products. However, a few scholars, as well as anecdotal evidence, suggest that when gazed at from the category level, aesthetic innovation usually occurs as incremental variations of a dominant aesthetic. Extant theory fails to account for why we see cycles of shift and stability in the dominant aesthetic of a category. In this study, we identify the mechanisms that drove such shifts and stability in the dominant aesthetic of the hearing aid category from 1945 to 2015. Leveraging this study, we develop theory showing that alignment or misalignment between category meanings and recent cultural trends spurs producers to generate new categorical aspirations to associate their category with new sets of meanings. However, producers introduce radical new aesthetic innovations only when a change in product form allows them to experiment. Examining aesthetic evolution at the category level helps to shed light on category-level patterns of aesthetic shifts and stability, why attempts to differentiate outside the dominant aesthetic are rare, and why product aesthetics across a category shift synchronously between dominant aesthetics. Furthermore, we enhance understanding of the roles of culture in category evolution and of aesthetics in the construction of category meaning, and we show how such meanings are periodically and collectively renegotiated in mature categories.

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The Aesthetic Evolution of Product Categories

Krabbe

Grodal

2023

Administrative Science Quarterly

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“…After the New York Tribune broke with the party in 1872, the New York Times advertised itself as “the only Republican morning paper in New York” and saw its influence accordingly increase (Davis 1969: 117). The New York Sun openly attacked Grant and leaned Democratic in most of its coverage (Stone 1938: 66). Prior to and during the Civil War, the New York Herald also supported the Democratic Party (Davis 1969: 9).…”

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Reexamining the Nineteenth-Century Presidency and Partisan Press: The Case of President Grant and the Whiskey Ring Scandal

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2017

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Studies of the institutional development of the presidency and popular leadership by presidents over time lead us to contrary expectations as to how a nineteenth-century president would react to a major political scandal. Scholarship on newspapers of the late 1800s is also unclear on how a quasipartisan media, with some outlets moving toward independence, would cover a White House scandal. I find that a close analysis of the case of President Ulysses S. Grant and the Whiskey Ring scandal forces us to reconsider what we assume to be firmly modern developments in both presidential studies and media history. Though a supposedly “premodern” president, Grant still mounted a concerted effort to mitigate the damage of the scandal. Further, although the president could get his version of events across in prominent newspapers, Republican newspaper coverage was hardly reliable. Newspapers also connected politicians’ character and psychology to mistakes made in office and made presidential strategies to shape public perception clear to their audiences—emphases on political gamesmanship considered hallmarks of the modern media environment.

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The person in the womb. By N. J. Berrell. Dodd, Mead, New York. 179 pp. 1968

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The Aesthetic Evolution of Product Categories

The Aesthetic Evolution of Product Categories

Reexamining the Nineteenth-Century Presidency and Partisan Press: The Case of President Grant and the Whiskey Ring Scandal

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