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Understanding halal food production and consumption in 'the West'. Beyond dominant narratives
Cambio, 2020 In recent decades, the visibility of halal food has become a highly emotive and controversial social practice, with halal meat in particular being seen as an indicator of the growing presence of Islam and what are seen to be ‘barbaric’ Muslim food ...
John Lever
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Sociology and the Climate Crisis
The Annual review of sociology, 2020 What would it mean for sociology to make climate change a core disciplinary concern? This article reviews research on a selection of trends brought on by the climate crisis: ( a) compounding and cumulative disasters, infrastructure breakdown, and ...
E. Klinenberg, Malcolm Araos, Liz Koslov
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Beyond capitalism and liberal democracy: on the relevance of GDH Cole’s sociological critique and alternative [PDF]
, 2015 This article argues for a return to the social thought of the often ignored early 20th-century English thinker GDH Cole. The authors contend that Cole combined a sociological critique of capitalism and liberal democracy with a well-developed alternative ...
Alperovitz G +42 more
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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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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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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 +2 more
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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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Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 Macro-institutional structures and consumerist culture force and urge people to reproduce unsustainable levels of consumption. A crucial role for sociology, the article argues, is to address theoretically and empirically the intersection between social ...
M. Boström
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Digital competencies and capabilities. Pre-adolescents inside and outside school [PDF]
, 2016 The investment on key-competences in last years was one crucial European strategy to face the new challenges of the knowledge society and of the digital convergence and to guarantee the active citizenship and social inclusion.
CORTONI, IDA
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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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