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Sociology of the body as an independent research direction: prerequisites for formation and subject field

open access: yesRUDN 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.

open access: yesNew 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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A REVIEW OF CRITICS AGAINST THE CALL FOR INDIGENOUS SOCIOLOGY IN TURKEY

open access: yesİmgelem, 2021
The call for indigenous sociology is a discussion that reflects reactions to the Eurocentric character of Western sociology and alternative proposals.
Fahri Çakı
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Consumption caught in the cash nexus. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
During the last thirty years, ‘consumption’ has become a major topic in the study of contemporary culture within anthropology, psychology and sociology. For many authors it has become central to understanding the nature of material culture in the modern ...
Appadurai, A.   +60 more
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Pendidikan Anti Konsumerisme dalam Novel Napoli: Ketika Jatuh di Pelukanmu Karya Riskaninda Maharani (Kajian Sosiologi Sastra)

open access: yesINSANIA: Jurnal Pemikiran Alternatif Kependidikan, 2016
: This literary sociology study has the goal of describing the consumer culture contained in novel “Napoli: Ketika Jatuh di Pelukanmu (When Falling in your arms) by Riskaninda Maharani.
Winda Dwi Hudhana, Nur Ariyani
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Non-western contexts: the invisible half [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Like many other disciplines within the broad area of social sciences (e.g., anthropology, gender studies, psychology, sociology, etc.), consumer research is also highly navigated by scholars from Western countries.
Ahmet Süerdem   +36 more
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The Domestication of Luxury in Social Theory

open access: yesSocial Change Review, 2012
During the establishment of modern society, luxury consumption played an important role as a symbolic reference for status comparison across class boundaries.
Schrage Dominik
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Theoretical backgrounds of the sociological analysis of medical care consumption [PDF]

open access: yesСоциологический журнал, 2015
The topicality of the article is the necessity to construct theoretical bases of medical care consumption study in sociology. The purpose of this article is a systematic analysis of the content and boundaries in using the category of medical care ...
Nikita A. Vyalykh
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Essai: From iron cages to liquid modernity in organization analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Historically, the metaphor of the iron cage, as a key component of Weber's sociological imagination, has played a central role in organization studies.
Baumeler, C, Clegg, S
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Digital competencies and capabilities. Pre-adolescents inside and outside school [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The investment on key-competences in last years was one crucial European strategy to face the new challenges of the knowledge society and of the digital convergence and to guarantee the active citizenship and social inclusion.
CORTONI, IDA
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