On “The Design of Everyday Life”
Tecnoscienza, 2015 The article highlights the intersection between design, STS and consumption outlining practices as the central unit of analysis. The paper illustrates this perspective with reference to a variety of examples, including home improvements and do-it ...
Elizabeth Shove
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When Fashion Meets Big Data: Discriminative Mining of Best Selling Clothing Features [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 With the prevalence of e-commence websites and the ease of online shopping, consumers are embracing huge amounts of various options in products. Undeniably, shopping is one of the most essential activities in our society and studying consumer's shopping behavior is important for the industry as well as sociology and psychology. Indisputable, one of the
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Alessandro Bonanno, Hans Bakker, Raymond Jussaume, Yoshio Kawamura, and Mark Schucksmith, eds., From Community to Consumption: New and Classical Themes in Rural Sociological Research. Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Volume 16 [PDF]
, 2011 Review of From Community to Consumption: New and Classical Themes in Rural Sociological Research, Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Volume 16, by Alessandro Bonanno, Hans Bakker, Raymond Jussaume, Yoshio Kawamura, and Mark Schucksmith ...
Tanaka, Keiko
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Consumer credit in comparative perspective [PDF]
, 2018 We review the literature in sociology and related fields on the fast global growth of consumer credit and debt and the possible explanations for this expansion.
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Scarsità e sovranità. Riflessioni sulla sostenibilità alla luce delle idee di Dumouchel e Bataille
Culture e Studi del Sociale, 2020 The article proposes a reflection on two concepts, related to the theme of sustainability. The first is scarcity, the latter is sovereignty. The article considers the institution of the scarcity on a social level.
Uliano Conti
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Prevalence of Drug Use Among the Working Population as a Form of Disadaptation Process. Part I
Социологическая наука и социальная практика, 2019 The article is devoted to the study of the spread of drug use among the working population. On the basis of materials of quantitative and qualitative research of the deviant behavior sector of sociology from the Institute of Sociology of the Federal ...
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Research of the Nutrition Problem: Methodological Approaches and Daily Practices
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2014 The article analyzes some scientific approaches to nutrition research and current nutrition practices for students of two Moscow Universities. The author notes that the necessity for scientific studying of food has been understood at the end of the XIX -
Antonina V. Noskova
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Considering adoption: Towards a consumption-oriented approach to innovation [PDF]
What are the forces that shape the adoption of innovations? This question has been sidelined in a largely production-centric literature on the economic geography of innovation. Inspired by Weber’s dual concern with procurement and distribution activities
Rekers, Josephine V.
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Cultures of Sustainability: ‘Ways of doing’ cooking [PDF]
, 2010 In our research, we have been expanding our conceptual and methodological frames of reference as designers, in order to explore the complexity of factors involved in environmental sustainability and the consequent challenges posed for design research. In
de Jong, Annelise, Mazé, Ramia
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Dissecting action sports studies: Past, present, and beyond [PDF]
, 2013 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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