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Bourdieu and the Sociology of Music Consumption: A Critical Assessment of Recent Developments [PDF]

open access: greenSociology Compass, 2013
The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has been an extraordinarily influential figure in the sociology of music. For over three decades, his concepts have helped to generate both empirical and theoretical interventions in the field of study. His impact on the sociology of music taste, in particular, has been profound, his ideas directly informing our ...
Nick Prior
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The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach [PDF]

open access: bronzeThe AAG Review of Books, 2017
Joel Stillerman. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2015. vi and 225 pp., bibliography, index. $24.95 paper (ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6127-8); $69.95 cloth (ISBN 9780745661278); $19.99–$69.95 electronic (ISBN 97807...
Jacob C. Miller
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Nostalgic Consumption: Sociological Analysis [PDF]

open access: diamondJournal of Institutional Studies, 2016
The presented paper focuses on the phenomena of «commercialization of nostalgia» which is defined as the use of Soviet attributes, symbols and artefacts in promotion and branding of contemporary market goods. What can be evident for any observer and what was highlighted by Russian scholars is that Soviet stylistics gain popularity within contemporary ...
Tamara Kusimova, A. Shmidt Maya
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Institutionalization of the Sociology of Consumption in Russia

open access: bronzeJournal of Economic Sociology, 2014
This article explores the process by which a subfield of sociology, the sociology of consumption, became institutionalized in Russia. By “institutionalization” is meant the process of its establishment as an autonomous field of scientific knowledge, university-level discipline and academic community of scholars.
Оlga Gurova
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The Evolution of Sociological Approaches Towards Conceptualizing Consumption in Western Sociology

open access: diamondSociological Journal
The second half of the 20th century saw multiple directions of consumer research emerge in sociology, including a cultural turn, a material turn, a practical turn, a turn towards sustainability, and a digital turn. These turns indicate trends in sociological thought, which arise with increasing speed and overlap each other.
Zoya Kotelnikova
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Sociological Ambivalence and Funeral Consumption [PDF]

open access: yesSociology, 2014
This article builds on Hillcoat-Nallétamby and Phillips’ (2011) conceptualization of sociological ambivalence within the relational framework to examine a particular consumption practice, the funeral. We develop understanding of social, cultural and relational issues that arise from the experience associated with funeral-arranging.
Isabelle Szmigin, Louise Canning
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Analysis of SIR epidemic models with sociological phenomenon [PDF]

open access: yesSpora: A Journal of Biomathematics, (2022) Vol. 8, 38-55, 2022
We propose two SIR models which incorporate sociological behavior of groups of individuals. It is these differences in behaviors which impose different infection rates on the individual susceptible populations, rather than biological differences. We compute the basic reproduction number for each model, as well as analyze the sensitivity of $R_0$ to ...
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Invariant features of spatial inequality in consumption: the case of India [PDF]

open access: yesPhysica A 442 (2016) 169-181, 2015
We study the distributional features and inequality of consumption expenditure across India, for different states, castes, religion and urban-rural divide. We find that even though the aggregate measures of inequality are fairly diversified across states, the consumption distributions show near identical statistics, once properly normalized.
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