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RETRACTED: Engaging the citizen in the circular economy: Transcending the passive consumer role

Frontiers in Sustainability, 2022
The transition to a resource-efficient and effective circular economy (CE) requires the active engagement of all societal and economic actors, including business, civic society, and political actors.
Leonidas Milios
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Partner’s and own education: does who you live with matter for self-assessed health, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption? [PDF]

, 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, Kraaykamp, Gerbert, Lenthe, Frank van, Monden, Christiaan W.S.   +3 more
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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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"Ordinary, the same as anywhere else": notes on the management of spoiled identity in 'marginal' middle class neighbourhoods [PDF]

, 2007
Urban sociologists are becoming increasingly interested in neighbourhood as a source of middle-class identity. Particular emphasis is currently being given to two types of middle-class neighbourhood; gentrified urban neighbourhoods of ‘distinction’ and ...
Bauman, Z., Baumgartner, M.P., Beck, U., Beck, U., Beck, U., Beck, U., Bourdieu, P., Bridge, G., Bulmer, M., Butler, T., Butler, T., Chris Allen, Duncan, J.S., Edwards, J., Elias, N., Foley, D.L., Forrest, R., Friedland, R., Giddens, A., Giddens, A., Goffman, E., Jamieson, L., Jones, G., Ley, D., Rionach Casey, Ryan Powell, Sarah Coward, Savage, M., Savage, M., Savage, M., Silverstone, R., Skeggs, B., Skeggs, B., Warren, D., Whyte, W.S., Willmott, P., Young, M., Zukin, S.   +37 more
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Explanatory factors of university student participation in flamenco [PDF]

, 2019
The present work offers a study exploring University of Seville students’ cultural participation and how often they attend live flamenco shows. Based on the statistical yearbook of this university, a sample of 452 students from different fields was ...
Oliver Alfonso, María Dolores, Palma Martos, Luis Antonio, Sancha Navarro, Jesús Manuel de   +2 more
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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

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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Smoke gets in your eyes:what is sociological about cigarettes? [PDF]

, 2016
Contemporary public health approaches increasingly draw attention to the unequal social distribution of cigarette smoking. In contrast, critical accounts emphasize the importance of smokers’ situated agency, the relevance of embodiment and how public ...
Adam B., Bauman Z., Benjamin W., Bourdieu P., Brandt A., Campbell C., Dennis S., Donncha Marron, Elster J., Featherstone M., Ferguson H., Giddens A., Goodman J., Graham H., Greaves L., Hens G., Hilton M., Hughes J., Hunt A., Keane H., Lears T. J., Lears T. J., Lupton D., Miller D., Mills C. W., Mintz S., Rudy J., Schor J., Schudson M., Simmel G., Simmel G., Sobel D.   +31 more
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Transcending History’s Heavy Hand: The Future in Economic Action

, 2020
This paper discusses sociological analyses of the formation and role of expectations in the economy. Recognition of the social constitution of expectations advances the understanding of economic action under conditions of uncertainty and helps to explain
Beckert, J., Ergen, T.
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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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Musical preferences and technologies: Contemporary material and symbolic distinctions criticised [PDF]

, 2015
Today how individuals interact with various cultural items is not perfectly consistent with theoretical frameworks of influential scholars on cultural consumption, such as Bourdieu (1984), Gans (1999), and Peterson and Simkus (1992).
Adrian Leguina, Bull M, Crisell A, French-Davis R, Frith S, Gans HJ, Gayo M, Gonzalez JP, Karmy E, Lebaron F, Paul Widdop, Peterson RA, Pinch T, R Core Team, Sara Arancibia-Carvajal, Van Dijk JAGM, Warde A   +16 more
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