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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 ...
Ewina Efriani Manik +8 more
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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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Sociality of Consumption: A Perspective in Economy-Culture Interaction
İzmir İktisat Dergisi, 2022 Consumption is an indispensable element for the continuity of human life. From the past to the present, quite different meanings have been attributed to consumption. Consumption, which is the act of consuming in its simplest form, is a way of life on its
Sevim Dilekoğlu
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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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Tendency to consume Iranian / foreign home appliances taking into account the economic, social and cultural factors affecting it [PDF]
New Applied Studies in Management, Economics & Accounting, 2018 The home appliance industry is very influential in society due to its close relationship with people and the use of its products on a daily basis. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate and identify the factors affecting the tendency of ...
Sharareh Kamrani, Afsaneh Kamali
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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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International Journal of the Commons, 2009 The past three decades have witnessed a period of great turbulence in the economies of biological knowledge, during which there has been great uncertainty as to how and where boundaries could be drawn between public or private knowledge especially with ...
Mark Harvey, Andrew McMeekin
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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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The promotional window into society.
New Vistas, 2022 In this position paper, I argue for a structurationist understanding of advertising, exploring the current standing of advertising within western cultures, establishing advertising’s nature as a ‘distorting mirror’ of socio-cultural trends that can ...
Dennis A. Olsen
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