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Sociality of Consumption: A Perspective in Economy-Culture Interaction

İzmir İktisat Dergisi, 2022
Consumption is an indispensable element for the continuity of human life. From the past to the present, quite different meanings have been attributed to consumption. Consumption, which is the act of consuming in its simplest form, is a way of life on its
Sevim Dilekoğlu
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Theoretical backgrounds of the sociological analysis of medical care consumption [PDF]

Социологический журнал, 2015
The topicality of the article is the necessity to construct theoretical bases of medical care consumption study in sociology. The purpose of this article is a systematic analysis of the content and boundaries in using the category of medical care ...
Nikita A. Vyalykh
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Public or private economies of knowledge: The economics of diffusion and appropriation of bioinformatics tools

International 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

La 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, Marie Plessz, Diane Rodet, François Sarfati   +3 more
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Imagining and co-creating futures of sustainable consumption and society

Consumption and Society, 2022
With the increasing pressure on the climate from human activities, it is urgent to envision and facilitate radically different ways of life that allow for significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions. This only happens if policy and action initiatives go
C. L. Jensen, Frederikke Oldin, Greger Andersen   +2 more
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Consumption caught in the cash nexus. [PDF]

, 2007
During the last thirty years, ‘consumption’ has become a major topic in the study of contemporary culture within anthropology, psychology and sociology. For many authors it has become central to understanding the nature of material culture in the modern ...
Appadurai, A., Barthes, R., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Baudrillard, J., Bocock, R., Boorstein, D., Campbell, C., Carlyle, T., Corrigan, P., Corrigan, P., Csikszentmihalyi, M., Dant, T., de Certeau, M., Dittmar, H., Douglas, M., du Gay, P., Engels, F., Ewen, S., Falk, P., Featherstone, M., Gabriel, Y., Galbraith, J. K., Galbraith, J. K., Goldthorpe, J. H., Goldthorpe, J. H., Haug, W.F., Heath, C.C., Jhally, S., Kopytoff, I., Leiss, W., Lunt, P., Lury, C., Marcuse, H., Marx, K., McCarthy, E.D., McCracken, G., McKenzie, R., Mead, G.H., Miles, S., Miller, D., Miller, D., Miller, D., Miller, D., Miller, D., Packard, V., Riesman, D., Riggins, S.H., Riggins, S.H., Runciman, W.G., Sahlins, M., Saunders, P., Shields, R., Simmel, G., Slater, D., Tim Dant, Westergaard, J.H., Westergaard, J.H.   +60 more
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Socially responsible consumption: Between social welfare and degrowth

Economics & Sociology, 2022
The main objective of this study is to characterize socially responsible consumption (SRC) through the lens of social welfare and degrowth proposals. The central research questions are (i) whether SRC can contribute to the realization of the foundations ...
M. Baranowski, H. Kopnina
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Class and relative wealth accumulation in five European countries: Sociological Lessons from the Household Financial and Consumption Survey (European Central Bank, 2014 Wave)

European Journal of Sociology, 2022
Recent sociological research tends to move beyond the divide between economics and sociology in the study of socioeconomic inequality. It focuses primarily on the relationship between social class and work-related income.
Nicolas Duvoux, Adrien Papuchon
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Decolonising consumption, the hegemony of consumer culture and the politics of consumption: an interview with Roberta Sassatelli

Consumption and Society, 2022
Italian sociologist Roberta Sassatelli is well known for her work on consumption. She was educated and has taught in Italy and the UK and writes and publishes in both languages, and her work has been widely translated.
R. Sassatelli, S. Wahlen, Daniel Welch
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Welcome to the Real World: Escaping the Sociology of Culture and Cognition

Sociological forum (Randolph, N.J.), 2021
Recent developments in cultural sociology show that our field remains entrenched in a troubling pattern. As Lizardo (2014) demonstrated, sociologists have a pathological relationship to interdisciplinarity.
Stephen Vaisey
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