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Attitudes towards globalization and cosmopolitanism: cultural diversity, personal consumption and the national economy [PDF]
British Journal of Sociology, 2008 AbstractOne of the widely accepted consequences of globalization is the development of individual outlooks, behaviours and feelings that transcend local and national boundaries. This has encouraged a re‐assessment of important assumptions about the nature of community, personal attachment and belonging in the face of unprecedented opportunities for ...
Zlatko Skrbiš, Ian Woodward
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Advanced Science Letters, 2018 The aim of this paper is to examine the mediating role of fashion consciousness on cosmopolitanism and status consumption of young fashion consumers in Sri Lanka. A survey method is used. The result uncovers that the fashion consciousness fully mediates the relationship between cosmopolitanism and status consumption of young fashion consumers in Sri ...
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Cosmopolitan cultural consumption: Preferences and practices in a heterogenous, urban population in Switzerland [PDF]
Poetics, 2015 Several authors in contemporary cultural consumption research have argued that the traditional axis of distinction between highbrow culture and popular culture is in the process of being replaced by a new axis of distinction between an open cosmopolitan cultural capital and a more local less open, cultural capital.
Rössel, Jörg, Schroedter, Julia H
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Cosmopolitan Dubai: Consumption and Segregation in a Global City [PDF]
, 2021 AbstractThis chapter attempts to think cosmopolitanism outside the framework of normativity and to unravel how it can be grounded in non-Western and non-integrative contexts. In a deeply inegalitarian Emirati society, Dubai’s cosmopolitanism intertwines three main features: globalization, consumption and segregation.
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A cosmopolitan return to nature: how combining aesthetization and moralization processes expresses distinction in food consumption [PDF]
Consumption Markets & Culture, 2016 ABSTRACTThis article investigates how foodies' adoption of New Nordic Food enables them to combine aesthetic and moral cosmopolitanism ideals. It demonstrates that consumers integrate aesthetic and moral cosmopolitan discourses through two complementary processes: the re-aesthetization of nature and the re-moralization of the exotic.
Emontspool, Julie ; id_orcid 0000-0002-1012-7393 +1 more
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Pivoting for the Pandemic, 2020 This study links two major trends in society and industry, cosmopolitanism and sustainable consumer behavior. On the one hand, the rise in cosmopolitan consumers implies openness to products in different markets and more responsible consumption; and on the other hand, the society and environment need the openness of conscious consumers to adopt ...
Jin Su, Maria Gil Del Altcazar
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Everyday Cosmopolitanism in African Cities: Places of Leisure and Consumption in Antananarivo and Maputo [PDF]
, 2021 AbstractAfrican cities are sometimes considered “off the map” as underdeveloped peripheries alienated from cultural globalisation. The intrinsic ethnic and cultural diversity of African cities is often overshadowed by a distant perception of their overall “blackness” and a supposed cultural uniformity.
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The perceived cosmopolitan consumption of globally mobile, young consumers from China [PDF]
Young Consumers, 2018 Purpose This study aims to explore the consumption practices of globally-mobile, young consumers from China who experience both upward social mobility and geographically outbound mobility by studying abroad, echoing emerging scholarship of “moving consumption”. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 27 first-
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Youths, cosmopolitanisms and media consumption: Research experiments in Cuba
, 2021 Este artículo analiza el consumo de medios relacionado con la música pop entre los jóvenes cubanos a partir de una investigación de campo de inspiración etnográfica realizada entre 2016 y 2017 en la ciudad de La Habana, que problematiza las prescripciones sobre los estudios de la juventud en América Latina.
Soares, Thiago, Pereira, Simone Luci
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