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Bringing Children into the Sociology of Consumption: A Symbolic Consumption Perspective
Journal of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in Emerging Markets, 2023 This article explores children’s consumption practices from a sociology of consumption perspective. The aim is to discover whether South African children, in their consumption of clothing, engage in symbolic consumption and to identify the ways in which ...
Belinda Senooane, Johannes Wiid
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Taste, Sensation, and Skill in the Sociology of Consumption [PDF]
The Oxford Handbook of Consumption, 2018 This chapter re-examines foundational philosophical controversies about the meaning of taste and reflects on how tastes have been understood by sociologists. It argues these insights, while revealing the social patterning of tastes, have also obscured the extent to which tastes are bound up both with sensory experience and with the process of learning ...
David Wright
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The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach [PDF]
The AAG Review of Books, 2017 Joel Stillerman. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2015. vi and 225 pp., bibliography, index. $24.95 paper (ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6127-8); $69.95 cloth (ISBN 9780745661278); $19.99–$69.95 electronic (ISBN 97807...
Jacob C. Miller
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RUDN journal of Sociology, 2023 In the contemporary society, under globalization, digitalization, urbanization and networkization, the body acquires new meanings, is included in new discourses and becomes a significant object of sociology.
D. A. Starostina
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Nostalgic Consumption: Sociological Analysis [PDF]
Журнал институциональных исследований, 2016 The presented paper focuses on the phenomena of «commercialization of nostalgia» which is defined as the use of Soviet attributes, symbols and artefacts in promotion and branding of contemporary market goods. What can be evident for any observer and what
Kusimova Tamara, B., Shmidt Maya, A.
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Nonnegotiable Symbolic Value and Sugar-Driven Food Habits in Indonesia: Mixed Methods Study Using a Digital Sociological Approach. [PDF]
JMIR InfodemiologyBackgroundThe sugar market in Indonesia reflects the distinct consumer behavior shaped by economic and deeply rooted cultural factors. This study explores how symbolic values attached to sugar sustain persistent, often irrational or uncontrollable ...
Manik EE +8 more
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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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RETRACTED: Engaging the citizen in the circular economy: Transcending the passive consumer role
Frontiers in Sustainability, 2022 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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Not just political parties: Robert Michels as a critic of mainstream economics
Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 Best known for his contribution to elite theory through the formulation of the principle of oligarchy, Robert Michels pursued a critique of economic reductionism for decades.
Emanuela Susca
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