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Agricultural Turns, Geographical Turns: Retrospect and Prospect. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
It is accepted that British rural geography has actively engaged with the ‘cultural turn’, leading to a resurgence of research within the sub-discipline. However, a reading of recent reviews suggests that the cultural turn has largely, if not completely,
Arensberg   +133 more
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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
doaj   +1 more source

Stop smoking the Easyway:addiction, self-help and tobacco cessation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article examines Easyway, a popular clinical and self-help method for the treatment of smoking addiction established by the late Allen Carr in 1984.
Marron, Donncha
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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
doaj   +1 more source

Partner’s and own education: does who you live with matter for self-assessed health, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This study analyses the importance of partner status and partner’s education, adjusted for own education, on selfassessed health, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.
Graaf, Nan Dirk De   +3 more
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Understanding Ordinary Women: Advertising, Consumer Research and Mass Consumption in Britain, 1948-67 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper reflects on the ways market research in Britain helped produce understandings of and information about the ?mass housewife? in the 1950s and 60s.
Nixon, S
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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
doaj   +1 more source

Presuming the influence of the media: teenagers’ constructions of gender identity through sexual/romantic relationships and alcohol consumption [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Using empirical data from group discussions and in-depth interviews with 13 to 15-year olds in Scotland, this study explores how teenagers’ alcohol drinking and sexual/romantic relationships were shaped by their quest for appropriate gendered identities.
Borzekowski   +40 more
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Designing Cost‐Effective Carbon Payments to Induce Cellulosic Feedstock Production for Sustainable Aviation Fuel

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Perennial bioenergy crops, such as miscanthus and switchgrass, and crop residues have the potential to scale up sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production and mitigate carbon emissions. However, high establishment costs, delayed returns, and risk–return profiles that diverge from those of conventional crops can hinder incentives to adopt ...
Fahd Majeed, Madhu Khanna, Ruiqing Miao
wiley   +1 more source

Girls and the Media: Girlhood Studies Agenda and Prospects in Italy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Within the Italian context, girlhood studies can hardly be considered a specific field: adolescence and gender construction in Italy have historically been investigated by sociology and psychology, although, in recent years, media studies have also ...
Romana Ando'
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