Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Research Proposal For Bachelor Thesis
Research Proposal For Bachelor Thesis
09.06.15
2. Research Topic
1. Which social class in Vienna is more likely to use public transport?
2. Is upper class in Vienna more environment conscious?
3. Goals
Our market is experiencing a series of moralization, as consumers, we do not only
care about what we can consume, but also how we consume. The awareness of
consuming ecologically has risen. As the world develops, the mobility of people has
increased dramatically. I am very interested in finding out the consumption
differences of Public Transport for different classes in our society in Vienna, since
compare to driving cars, using public transport is an efficient way of reducing CO2
consumption. This paper will not only be for my bachelor thesis, but also for the
society, for raising awareness that we then have an overview about how the current
situation is now in Vienna.
To start with, we will have an overview about the development of Viennas public
transport history; the urbanization of Vienna; the different groups of citizens who use
different mobility methods. In the next step, I will set the data that I collected together,
have a comprehensive view and analyze the data. I could also try to find out the
mobility of citizens from other countries or cities. We could compare, if Vienna is
doing better or worse than this other city. By doing this, we could have a more
sophisticated idea about our own living standard, living patterns. Maybe some of us
will start making some changes in his or her own life.
4. Approach/methodology
Since there are already a lot of data that I could find on the internet, I will be mostly
doing internet research. At the same time I will contact Wiener Linien in order to
obtain professional advices and opinion as well as possibly inside information. In
addition, I would also contact the Vienna University of Technology and Vienna
University of Economics and Business to find out if there were similar study
conducted.
5.Schedule
6. List of contents:
pages estimated
about 2 pages.
2. Public transport
about 6 pages.
about 8 pages
through time
3.1. The beginning of public transport in Vienna
3.2. The beginning of CO2 emission level
3.3. The prediction of the future CO2 emission trend for the world and Vienna
4. Public transport and consumer groups
about 10 pages
about 20 pages
about 5 pages
about 5 pages
about 5 pages
capital theory
8.1. Public transport use in regards to economic capital
8.2. Public transport use in regards to cultural capital
8.3. Public transport use in regards to social capital
8.4. All in relation with symbolic capital of citizens
9. Future perspective
about 5 pages
about 2 pages
Biography
Total: 56 pages
and Integration: Changes in the Social Diversity of Torontos Upper Class Suburbs,
1870s-1920s