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FOOD STUDIES IN THE SOCIOLOGY TODAY

Місто: історія, культура, суспільство, 2019
The author presents the history of sociological theories about food and consumption. This brief description, by and large, coincides with the description of the development of the whole discipline.
Tymofii Brik
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Distinction, Consumption and Social Classes: Elements for a Cinematografic Consumption Practice’s Sociology [PDF]

, 2013
El presente texto se aboca a la construcción de herramientas teóricas para el abordaje del cine como práctica social, específicamente en lo referido a la dimensión del consumo.
Assusa, Gonzalo
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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., Forsyth A., McLoone P., ONS, Robertson S., Royal College of Psychiatrists   +5 more
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Local Convergence and Global Diversity: From Interpersonal to Social Influence [PDF]

2011. Journal of Conflict Resolution 55.6: 968 - 993, 2008
Axelrod (1997) showed how local convergence in cultural influence can preserve cultural diversity. We argue that central implications of Axelrod's model may change profoundly, if his model is integrated with the assumption of social influence as assumed by an earlier generation of modelers.
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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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Sociology of Drug Consumption

Research on Addiction, 2004
In this article which is a review of sociological ideas and studies of drug abusers in social situation, drug addiction steps (particularly alcohol, heroin and cocaine consumption) are revised and some explanations are made.

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Towards a Critical Understanding of Music, Emotion and Self-Identity [PDF]

, 2008
The article begins by outlining a dominant conception of these relations in sociologically informed analysis of music, which sees music primarily as a positive resource for active self-making.
Born Georgina, Bourdieu Pierre, Butler Judith, Cook Nicholas, David Hesmondhalgh, De Nora Tia, Elliott Anthony, Filmer Paul, Finnegan Ruth, Finnegan Ruth, Foucault Michel, Frith Simon, Frith Simon, Giddens Anthony, Hennion Antoine, Herzog Herta, Hochschild Arlie, Illouz Eva, Lasch Christopher, Martin Peter J., McGuigan Jim, Sennett Richard, Straw Will, Wouters Cas   +23 more
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The promotional window into society.

New Vistas, 2022
In this position paper, I argue for a structurationist understanding of advertising, exploring the current standing of advertising within western cultures, establishing advertising’s nature as a ‘distorting mirror’ of socio-cultural trends that can ...
Dennis A. Olsen
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Towards a Contemporary Sociology of Children and Consumption [PDF]

, 2011
This research explores children’s consumption practices, and through doing so contributes to the sociology of children and of consumption. Although there exists a growing body of research on children’s consumption, children and childhood are often only
ELLIS, LIZ
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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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