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A sociological perspective of consumption morality

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 2007
Abstract 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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Sociology and Consumption

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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The Sociology of Consumption

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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Consumption, Class and Contemporary Sociology

1992
It 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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Introduction to the Sociology of Consumption

Sociology, 1990
consumption 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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THE SOCIOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION

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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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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Review of sociological databases on consumption

Sociology: methodology, methods, mathematical modeling (Sociology: 4M)
The article suggests a typology of sociological sample surveys on consumption. A detailed classification of 106 databases is given according to their geography, time frame, institutional affiliation, access to data, sampling and data collection methodology, and thematic content. Among databases reviewed, six main types of surveys were distinguished: 1)
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Sociological perspectives on ethical consumption

2023
Alex Hiller, Helen Goworek
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The Development of the Sociology of Consumption

2016
This 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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