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The mediatization of ethical consumption
MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, 2013 Over the years, mediatization studies have investigated the influence of media in numerous sections of contemporary society. One area that has received limited attention is the mediatization of consumption, particularly issues concerning ethical ...
Mikkel Fugl Eskjær
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Girls and the Media: Girlhood Studies Agenda and Prospects in Italy [PDF]
, 2017 Within the Italian context, girlhood studies can hardly be considered a specific field: adolescence and gender construction in Italy have historically been investigated by sociology and psychology, although, in recent years, media studies have also ...
Romana Ando'
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The sociology of pharmaceuticals: progress and prospects [PDF]
This paper takes a critical look at progress and prospects regarding the sociology of pharmaceuticals over the years. Key themes examined include: (i) medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation; (ii) regulation; (iii) consumption and consumerism; (iv ...
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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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Getting beyond the surface : using geometric data analysis in cultural sociology [PDF]
, 2016 Geometric Data Analysis (GDA) refers to a group of statistical techniques that disclose underlying patterns in categorized data. GDA represents categories of variables and individuals as points in a multi-dimensional Euclidean space.
Roose, Henk
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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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Reproductions, cultural capital and museums: aspects of the culture of copies
Museum & Society, 2015 The concept of cultural capital is well known in museum studies from pioneering visitor research conducted and reported by Pierre Bourdieu in the 1960s.
Gordon Fyfe
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Self-supervised Hypergraph Representation Learning for Sociological Analysis [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Modern sociology has profoundly uncovered many convincing social criteria for behavioural analysis. Unfortunately, many of them are too subjective to be measured and presented in online social networks. On the other hand, data mining techniques can better find data patterns but many of them leave behind unnatural understanding.
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Cookbook choice a matter of self-identity [PDF]
, 2008 Cookbooks have long been recognised as more than instructional texts rather as a literary genre with narratives beyond the functional. This paper discusses the influences which guide choices of cookbook and cookery writer for a group of thirtysomethings ...
Tonner, A.
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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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