Book review: the sociology of consumption: a global approach by Joel Stillerman [PDF]
, 2016 The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach, authored by Joel Stillerman, offers a long-overdue account of the processes and cultural relevance of consumption in the twenty-first century.
Patricia Hogwood
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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 +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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Consumption in action. Mapping consumerism in international academic literature [PDF]
, 2016 The consumer-citizen and more generally, the emergence of active forms of citizenship mediated by consumption point to a change in the relations of production, consumption and distribution.
Pattaro, Chiara, Setiffi, Francesca
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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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Explanatory factors of university student participation in flamenco [PDF]
, 2019 The present work offers a study exploring University of Seville students’ cultural participation and how often they attend live flamenco shows. Based on the statistical yearbook of this university, a sample of 452 students from different fields was ...
Oliver Alfonso, María Dolores +2 more
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Consumer credit in comparative perspective [PDF]
, 2018 We review the literature in sociology and related fields on the fast global growth of consumer credit and debt and the possible explanations for this expansion.
Aalbers MB +48 more
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Football's coming home ? digital reterritorialization, contradictions in the transnational coverage of sport and the sociology of alternative football broadcasts. [PDF]
, 2012 This article critically utilizes the work of Manuel Castells to discuss the issue of parallel imported broadcasts (specifically including live-streams) in football.
Baimbridge +34 more
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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. +5 more
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RETRACTED: Engaging the citizen in the circular economy: Transcending the passive consumer role
Frontiers in Sustainability, 2022 The transition to a resource-efficient and effective circular economy (CE) requires the active engagement of all societal and economic actors, including business, civic society, and political actors.
Leonidas Milios
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