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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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Uses of Sociology in Studying “Consumption” Behavior

Journal of Marketing, 1964
Although there has been a growth in the amount of social science dealing with consumers, for the most part sociologists have not been concerned with the study of the AGGREGATE behavior of consumers. Here is a discussion of some of the ways that sociological theories and methods may contribute toward the prediction and explanation of ...
Charles Y. Glock, Francesco M. Nicosia
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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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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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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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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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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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The Sociology of Consumption: a Brief History

2011
The 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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(Re)introducing embodied practical understanding to the sociology of sustainable consumption

Journal of Consumer Culture, 2021
Anders Rhiger Hansen
exaly