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Toward a Sociology of Consumption
Journal of Consumer Research, 1976The study of some psychological processes has become the main focus of consumer research; consequently, there has been a tendency to overlook the societal context in which consumers operate. The Authors focus on several characteristics of societies which affect individual consumers, and suggest new research directions which delineate the domain of a ...
Nicosia, Francesco M, Mayer, Robert N
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Revisiting the Sociology of consumption in tourism
2017Korstanje Maximiliano, Hugues Séraphin
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Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020
In China’s energy transformation strategy, natural gas is the "bridge fuel" to cleaner production. This paper innovatively uses the classic method in sociology, social network analysis (SNA), and reveals the network characteristics and spatial pattern of
Yan Bu, E. Wang, Jinhong Bai, Qing Shi
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In China’s energy transformation strategy, natural gas is the "bridge fuel" to cleaner production. This paper innovatively uses the classic method in sociology, social network analysis (SNA), and reveals the network characteristics and spatial pattern of
Yan Bu, E. Wang, Jinhong Bai, Qing Shi
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Cultural Sociology, 2020
A number of concepts and concerns from cultural sociology were thrown out as babies with the bathwater when the sociological study of consumption became dominated by the use of practice theories.
B. Halkier
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A number of concepts and concerns from cultural sociology were thrown out as babies with the bathwater when the sociological study of consumption became dominated by the use of practice theories.
B. Halkier
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New Frontiers of Robo-Advising: Consumption, Saving, Debt Management, and Taxes
Social Science Research Network, 2021Traditional forms of robo-advice were targeted to help individuals make portfolio allocation decisions. Based on the balance-sheet view of households, the scope for robo-advising has been expanding to many other personal-finance choices, such as ...
Francesco D’acunto, Alberto G. Rossi
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Ecological Economics, 2018
Social science approaches commonly used in household energy consumption research tend to focus on regular, everyday determinants of household behavior (discourse, practices, sociotechnical relations, actor-networks, etc.).
R. Galvin, Minna Sunikka-Blank
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Social science approaches commonly used in household energy consumption research tend to focus on regular, everyday determinants of household behavior (discourse, practices, sociotechnical relations, actor-networks, etc.).
R. Galvin, Minna Sunikka-Blank
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Sociology and Food Consumption
British Food Journal, 1989The important links between sociology, anthropology and the food industry are discussed in some detail. Lifestyles have seen many changes over the post‐war years, and these are reflected in numerous ways in consumption habits. Academic sociology, it is concluded, has much to offer food researchers, and they will ignore this at their peril.
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Uses of Sociology in Studying “Consumption” Behavior
Journal of Marketing, 1964Although there has been a growth in the amount of social science dealing with consumers, for the most part sociologists have not been concerned with the study of the AGGREGATE behavior of consumers. Here is a discussion of some of the ways that sociological theories and methods may contribute toward the prediction and explanation of aggregate ...
Charles Y. Glock, Francesco M. Nicosia
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A sociological perspective of consumption morality
Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 2007Abstract This paper considers how a sociological perspective of morality can inform understandings of consumption. In light of recent research that identifies moral forms of consumption practice at a socio‐cultural level (e.g. ‘ethical consumers’ and ‘voluntary simplifiers’) it is apparent that an important relationship between consumption, society ...
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2016
This chapter proceeds with brief sections on why consumption matters and how sociology might sit in an interdisciplinary field of scholarship. I then outline the reasoning behind fractal analysis. Thereafter I point to some features of the analysis of consumption which are distinctively canvassed by sociology.
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This chapter proceeds with brief sections on why consumption matters and how sociology might sit in an interdisciplinary field of scholarship. I then outline the reasoning behind fractal analysis. Thereafter I point to some features of the analysis of consumption which are distinctively canvassed by sociology.
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