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Sociology of Health and Illness, 2023 Alcohol is a modifiable breast cancer risk, increasing risk in a dose-dependent manner. Mid-life women (aged 45-64 years) consume alcohol at higher rates than younger women and this, combined with age, make them a high-risk group for breast cancer.
S. Batchelor +3 more
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Afterword: Tensions and possibilities for a narcofeminist sociology
Sociology Review, 2023 In this piece we reflect on the tensions and complexities of drug use that narcofeminism has prompted us to grapple with in producing this collection. Narcofeminist approaches challenge us to move beyond simplistic, moralistic frameworks that pathologise
Fay Dennis +2 more
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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 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 +3 more
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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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Older and wiser? Men’s and women’s accounts of drinking in early mid-life [PDF]
, 2011 Most qualitative research on alcohol focuses on younger rather than older adults. To explore older people’s relationship with alcohol, we conducted eight focus groups with 36 men and women aged 35 to 50 years in Scotland, UK.
Carstairs V. +5 more
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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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Stop smoking the Easyway:addiction, self-help and tobacco cessation [PDF]
, 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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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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Consumption in action. Mapping consumerism in international academic literature [PDF]
, 2016 The consumer-citizen and more generally, the emergence of active forms of citizenship mediated by consumption point to a change in the relations of production, consumption and distribution.
Pattaro, Chiara, Setiffi, Francesca
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