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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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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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Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang, Edward C. Jaenicke, Martina Vecchi, Sheng‐Jang Sheu   +3 more
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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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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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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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Growth of Omnichannel Grocery Retailing and Food Prices

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of the growth of omnichannel grocery retailing on food prices. We first develop a conceptual model of consumer choice and retailer pricing that allows us to evaluate changes in equilibrium prices, quantities, and profits with online channel growth and alternative pricing strategies.
Xiangwen Kong, Metin Çakır, Qingxiao Li   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community music, identity and belonging among Dutchies in Australia: Comparing assimilation to multiculturalism

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses variations in the experiences of Dutch identity and belonging to a music‐making group in the Dutch migrant community in Melbourne, Australia. It answers the research question “Which variations of ‘Dutch identity’ are there for the participants and how does music‐making relate to this?”. Feelings of identity and belonging
Karien Dekker, Jora Broerse, Nonja Peters   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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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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