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Public or private economies of knowledge: The economics of diffusion and appropriation of bioinformatics tools

open access: yesInternational 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

open access: yesLa 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

open access: yesSociologisk 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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Understanding halal food production and consumption in 'the West'. Beyond dominant narratives

open access: yesCambio, 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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BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CONSUMPTION IN SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES [PDF]

open access: yesAcademy 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

open access: yesRevija 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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RETRACTED: Engaging the citizen in the circular economy: Transcending the passive consumer role

open access: yesFrontiers 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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The Domestication of Luxury in Social Theory

open access: yesSocial Change Review, 2012
During the establishment of modern society, luxury consumption played an important role as a symbolic reference for status comparison across class boundaries.
Schrage Dominik
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Why do I have to say what my sexual orientation is if I just want to take a vacation? Experience and expectations of young Italian LGBTQ tourists

open access: yesFuori Luogo, 2019
The traveller’s experience is still somewhat under investigated in research into LGBTQ tourism, and qualitative research on LGBTQ tourists along with disciplinary approaches in the field of the sociology of consumption are rare, also in Italy.
Roberta Bartoletti, Lorenzo Giannini
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The Evolution of Sociological Approaches Towards Conceptualizing Consumption in Western Sociology

open access: yesСоциологический журнал
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.
Zoya V. Kotelnikova
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