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2017
During the second half of the twentieth century there was a rapid growth in the sub-discipline of the Sociology of Consumption. Consumption is now well established as a central topic for sociologists and others seeking to address a number of contemporary and pressing global issues, such as sustainability and health.
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During the second half of the twentieth century there was a rapid growth in the sub-discipline of the Sociology of Consumption. Consumption is now well established as a central topic for sociologists and others seeking to address a number of contemporary and pressing global issues, such as sustainability and health.
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Introduction to the Sociology of Consumption
Sociology, 1990consumption behaviour, it was most often as a branch of social pathology, concerned with social problems of insufficient nutritious food, excess alcohol, inadequate health care, too many cigarettes. Only rarely did the sociological classics examine consumption for its own sake.
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2005
In 1978 Robert Mayer published an article in the American Behavioral Scientist entitled ‘Exploring sociological theories by studying consumers’ in which he noted that the increasingly voiced suggestion that marketers and consumer researchers could profitably make more use of sociological concepts could equally be matched by calls for sociologists to ...
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In 1978 Robert Mayer published an article in the American Behavioral Scientist entitled ‘Exploring sociological theories by studying consumers’ in which he noted that the increasingly voiced suggestion that marketers and consumer researchers could profitably make more use of sociological concepts could equally be matched by calls for sociologists to ...
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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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Sociology of consumption, leisure, and lifestyle
2023This chapter provides an overview of the major social scientific strands of theorizing about consumption. We distinguish (1) the individualist tradition prevalent in social-psychological and economic approaches to consumption, but also in the more analytical realms of sociology, (2) the socio-cultural approach to consumption, strongly influenced by ...
Rössel, Jörg +2 more
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The sociology of consumption: a global approach
Consumption Markets & Culture, 2018The 1980s and 1990s were a heyday for ambitious treatises on consumption, and while the intervening years have witnessed a steady stream of excellent work in multiple disciplines, book-length treat...
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Consumption, Class and Contemporary Sociology
1992It is fair to say that until recently most sociologists tended to treat consumption in a reductionist manner as a distributive aspect of social class. However, of late some very strong claims have been made for the conceptual and political importance of consumption per se, and this has resulted in various challenges to the hegemony of those ...
Roger Burrows, Catherine Marsh
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The Development of the Sociology of Consumption
2016This chapter reviews the major trends in the sociology of consumption, putting key arguments into historical and intellectual context. I identify some gaps and neglected episodes in stories of the emergence of the sociology of consumption. I describe a history which proceeds by way of changing the central foci of analytic concern.
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Sport and Consumption in Contemporary Sociology
World Leisure Journal, 2006(2006). Sport and Consumption in Contemporary Sociology. World Leisure Journal: Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 61-63.
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The Sociology of Consumption: a Brief History
2011The sociological study of consumption goes as far back as sociology itself. Its empirical roots can be traced to the early development of statistical methods.1 The first household budgets were collected across Europe in the mid-nineteenth century to determine minimum income needs, and therefore the main focus was on the consumption of food.
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