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The Sociology of Consumption: Its Recent Development

Annual Review of Sociology, 2015
This article examines the development of the sociology of consumption. It identifies three periods in its evolution: origins prior to the 1980s; the years between the 1980s and the mid-2000s under the influence of the cultural turn; and the subsequent decade, when new theoretical perspectives and political issues have emerged.
Alan Warde
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Sustainability, self‐identity and the sociology of consumption

Sustainable Development, 2010
AbstractIn order to develop a more nuanced model of consumer behaviour and the dynamics of behavioural change, this paper argues, the discourse of sustainable consumption needs to draw more fully upon the sociological literature addressing consumption, its varied drivers, and the complex roles it plays within contemporary life. Since its revival in the
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Toward a Sociology of Consumption

Journal of Consumer Research, 1976
The study of some psychological processes has become the main focus of consumer research; consequently, there has been a tendency to overlook the societal context in which consumers operate. The Authors focus on several characteristics of societies which affect individual consumers, and suggest new research directions which delineate the domain of a ...
Nicosia, Francesco M, Mayer, Robert N
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Uses of Sociology in Studying “Consumption” Behavior

Journal of Marketing, 1964
Although there has been a growth in the amount of social science dealing with consumers, for the most part sociologists have not been concerned with the study of the AGGREGATE behavior of consumers. Here is a discussion of some of the ways that sociological theories and methods may contribute toward the prediction and explanation of aggregate ...
Charles Y. Glock, Francesco M. Nicosia
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A sociological perspective of consumption morality

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 2007
Abstract This paper considers how a sociological perspective of morality can inform understandings of consumption. In light of recent research that identifies moral forms of consumption practice at a socio‐cultural level (e.g. ‘ethical consumers’ and ‘voluntary simplifiers’) it is apparent that an important relationship between consumption, society ...
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The Sociology of Consumption

2017
During the second half of the twentieth century there was a rapid growth in the sub-discipline of the Sociology of Consumption. Consumption is now well established as a central topic for sociologists and others seeking to address a number of contemporary and pressing global issues, such as sustainability and health.
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Introduction to the Sociology of Consumption

Sociology, 1990
consumption behaviour, it was most often as a branch of social pathology, concerned with social problems of insufficient nutritious food, excess alcohol, inadequate health care, too many cigarettes. Only rarely did the sociological classics examine consumption for its own sake.
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THE SOCIOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION

2005
In 1978 Robert Mayer published an article in the American Behavioral Scientist entitled ‘Exploring sociological theories by studying consumers’ in which he noted that the increasingly voiced suggestion that marketers and consumer researchers could profitably make more use of sociological concepts could equally be matched by calls for sociologists to ...
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The Development of the Sociology of Consumption

2016
This chapter reviews the major trends in the sociology of consumption, putting key arguments into historical and intellectual context. I identify some gaps and neglected episodes in stories of the emergence of the sociology of consumption. I describe a history which proceeds by way of changing the central foci of analytic concern.
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Review of sociological databases on consumption

Sociology: methodology, methods, mathematical modeling (Sociology: 4M)
The article suggests a typology of sociological sample surveys on consumption. A detailed classification of 106 databases is given according to their geography, time frame, institutional affiliation, access to data, sampling and data collection methodology, and thematic content. Among databases reviewed, six main types of surveys were distinguished: 1)
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