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Theoretical backgrounds of the sociological analysis of medical care consumption [PDF]

Социологический журнал, 2015
The topicality of the article is the necessity to construct theoretical bases of medical care consumption study in sociology. The purpose of this article is a systematic analysis of the content and boundaries in using the category of medical care ...
Nikita A. Vyalykh
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Public or private economies of knowledge: The economics of diffusion and appropriation of bioinformatics tools

International Journal of the Commons, 2009
The past three decades have witnessed a period of great turbulence in the economies of biological knowledge, during which there has been great uncertainty as to how and where boundaries could be drawn between public or private knowledge especially with ...
Mark Harvey, Andrew McMeekin
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La consommation low cost

La Nouvelle Revue du Travail, 2018
Questions raised here include how sociologists analyse consumption; which methods, tools and concepts they use to account for social practice; how they envision the low cost model; and what linkages they suggest between the sociology of consumption vs ...
Franck Cochoy, Marie Plessz, Diane Rodet, François Sarfati   +3 more
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Social relations and challenges to consuming less in a mass consumption society

Sociologisk Forskning, 2022
Increasing numbers of people in welfare societies express worries about their ecological footprint. Some make efforts to significantly reduce their consumption.
Magnus Boström
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Older and wiser? Men’s and women’s accounts of drinking in early mid-life [PDF]

, 2011
Most qualitative research on alcohol focuses on younger rather than older adults. To explore older people’s relationship with alcohol, we conducted eight focus groups with 36 men and women aged 35 to 50 years in Scotland, UK.
Carstairs V., Forsyth A., McLoone P., ONS, Robertson S., Royal College of Psychiatrists   +5 more
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Understanding halal food production and consumption in 'the West'. Beyond dominant narratives

Cambio, 2020
In recent decades, the visibility of halal food has become a highly emotive and controversial social practice, with halal meat in particular being seen as an indicator of the growing presence of Islam and what are seen to be ‘barbaric’ Muslim food ...
John Lever
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Consumption caught in the cash nexus. [PDF]

, 2007
During the last thirty years, ‘consumption’ has become a major topic in the study of contemporary culture within anthropology, psychology and sociology. For many authors it has become central to understanding the nature of material culture in the modern ...
Appadurai, A., Barthes, R., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Bocock, R., Boorstein, D., Campbell, C., Carlyle, T., Corrigan, P., Corrigan, P., Csikszentmihalyi, M., Dant, T., de Certeau, M., Dittmar, H., Douglas, M., du Gay, P., Engels, F., Ewen, S., Falk, P., Featherstone, M., Gabriel, Y., Galbraith, J. K., Galbraith, J. K., Goldthorpe, J. H., Goldthorpe, J. H., Haug, W.F., Heath, C.C., Jhally, S., Kopytoff, I., Leiss, W., Lunt, P., Lury, C., Marcuse, H., Marx, K., McCarthy, E.D., McCracken, G., McKenzie, R., Mead, G.H., Miles, S., Miller, D., Miller, D., Miller, D., Miller, D., Miller, D., Packard, V., Riesman, D., Riggins, S.H., Riggins, S.H., Runciman, W.G., Sahlins, M., Saunders, P., Shields, R., Simmel, G., Slater, D., Tim Dant, Westergaard, J.H., Westergaard, J.H.   +60 more
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Partner’s and own education: does who you live with matter for self-assessed health, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption? [PDF]

, 2003
This study analyses the importance of partner status and partner’s education, adjusted for own education, on selfassessed health, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.
Graaf, Nan Dirk De, Kraaykamp, Gerbert, Lenthe, Frank van, Monden, Christiaan W.S.   +3 more
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BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CONSUMPTION IN SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES [PDF]

Academy Review
This article presents a bibliometric analysis of academic studies on consumption from 1975 to the present. The study was undertaken to identify trends in consumption publications, understand networks, and outline future research directions.
Hayrettin Zengin, Yaşar Suveren
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Sociology of Alcohol Consumption – In Search of a Theory

Revija za Sociologiju, 2022
Alcohol consumption takes place in society and because of society. The “social” aspect of this phenomenon gives a meaning that manifests itself in the framework of interaction.
Erik Brezovec
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