The Domestication of Luxury in Social Theory
Social 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
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Fuori 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
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Quantifying invariant features of within-group inequality in consumption across groups [PDF]
, 2016 We study unit-level expenditure on consumption across multiple countries and multiple years, in order to extract invariant features of consumption distribution. We show that the bulk of it is lognormally distributed, followed by a power law tail at the limit.
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The NetMob23 Dataset: A High-resolution Multi-region Service-level Mobile Data Traffic Cartography [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Digital sources have been enabling unprecedented data-driven and large-scale investigations across a wide range of domains, including demography, sociology, geography, urbanism, criminology, and engineering. A major barrier to innovation is represented by the limited availability of dependable digital datasets, especially in the context of data ...
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Are You Worthy of My Trust?: A Socioethical Perspective on the Impacts of Trustworthy AI Systems on the Environment and Human Society [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 With ubiquitous exposure of AI systems today, we believe AI development requires crucial considerations to be deemed trustworthy. While the potential of AI systems is bountiful, though, is still unknown-as are their risks. In this work, we offer a brief, high-level overview of societal impacts of AI systems.
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Essai: From iron cages to liquid modernity in organization analysis [PDF]
, 2010 Historically, the metaphor of the iron cage, as a key component of Weber's sociological imagination, has played a central role in organization studies.
Baumeler, C, Clegg, S
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Intelligent social bots uncover the link between user preference and diversity of news consumption [PDF]
Roy. Soc. Open Sci. 6 (2019) 190868, 2019 The boom of online social media and microblogging platforms has rapidly alter the way we consume news and exchange opinions. Even though considerable efforts try to recommend various contents to users, loss of information diversity and the polarization of interest groups are still an enormous challenge for industry and academia. Here, we take advantage
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Glowing Experience or Bad Trip? A Quantitative Analysis of User Reported Drug Experiences on Erowid.org [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Erowid.org is a website dedicated to documenting information about psychoactive substances, with over 36,000 user-submitted drug Experience Reports. We study the potential of these reports to provide information about characteristic experiences with drugs. First, we assess different kinds of drug experiences, such as 'addiction' or 'bad trips'.
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A Pipeline for Graph-Based Monitoring of the Changes in the Information Space of Russian Social Media during the Lockdown [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 With the COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent lockdown, social media became a vital communication tool. The sudden outburst of online activity influenced information spread and consumption patterns. It increases the relevance of studying the dynamics of social networks and developing data processing pipelines that allow a comprehensive analysis of ...
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Presuming the influence of the media: teenagers’ constructions of gender identity through sexual/romantic relationships and alcohol consumption [PDF]
, 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.
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