Agricultural Turns, Geographical Turns: Retrospect and Prospect. [PDF]
It is accepted that British rural geography has actively engaged with the ‘cultural turn’, leading to a resurgence of research within the sub-discipline. However, a reading of recent reviews suggests that the cultural turn has largely, if not completely,
Arensberg +133 more
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Socially responsible consumption: Between social welfare and degrowth
The main objective of this study is to characterize socially responsible consumption (SRC) through the lens of social welfare and degrowth proposals. The central research questions are (i) whether SRC can contribute to the realization of the foundations ...
M. Baranowski, H. Kopnina
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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]
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 +3 more
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The Domestication of Luxury in Social Theory
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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RETRACTED: Engaging the citizen in the circular economy: Transcending the passive consumer role
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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Spending Bundles: Incorporating Household Expenditures in the Sociology of Consumption
Sociologists of consumption focus primarily on understanding the determinants and consequences of social variation in tastes. Patterns of variation in actual purchases, however, remain relatively unexplored. In this paper, the author proposes a framework
Raphaël Charron-Chénier
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Imagining and co-creating futures of sustainable consumption and society
With the increasing pressure on the climate from human activities, it is urgent to envision and facilitate radically different ways of life that allow for significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions. This only happens if policy and action initiatives go
C. L. Jensen +2 more
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Dissecting action sports studies: Past, present, and beyond [PDF]
The term “action sports” broadly refers to a wide range of mostly individualized activities such as BMX, kite-surfing, skateboarding, surfing, and snowboarding that differed – at least in their early phases of development – from traditional rule-bound ...
Thorpe, Holly Aysha, Wheaton, Belinda
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Presuming the influence of the media: teenagers’ constructions of gender identity through sexual/romantic relationships and alcohol consumption [PDF]
Using empirical data from group discussions and in-depth interviews with 13 to 15-year olds in Scotland, this study explores how teenagers’ alcohol drinking and sexual/romantic relationships were shaped by their quest for appropriate gendered identities.
Borzekowski +40 more
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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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