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Partner’s and own education: does who you live with matter for self-assessed health, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption? [PDF]

, 2003
This study analyses the importance of partner status and partner’s education, adjusted for own education, on selfassessed health, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.
Graaf, Nan Dirk De, Kraaykamp, Gerbert, Lenthe, Frank van, Monden, Christiaan W.S.   +3 more
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La consommation low cost

La Nouvelle Revue du Travail, 2018
Questions raised here include how sociologists analyse consumption; which methods, tools and concepts they use to account for social practice; how they envision the low cost model; and what linkages they suggest between the sociology of consumption vs ...
Franck Cochoy, Marie Plessz, Diane Rodet, François Sarfati   +3 more
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Transcending History’s Heavy Hand: The Future in Economic Action

, 2020
This paper discusses sociological analyses of the formation and role of expectations in the economy. Recognition of the social constitution of expectations advances the understanding of economic action under conditions of uncertainty and helps to explain
Beckert, J., Ergen, T.
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"Ordinary, the same as anywhere else": notes on the management of spoiled identity in 'marginal' middle class neighbourhoods [PDF]

, 2007
Urban sociologists are becoming increasingly interested in neighbourhood as a source of middle-class identity. Particular emphasis is currently being given to two types of middle-class neighbourhood; gentrified urban neighbourhoods of ‘distinction’ and ...
Bauman, Z., Baumgartner, M.P., Beck, U., Beck, U., Beck, U., Beck, U., Bourdieu, P., Bridge, G., Bulmer, M., Butler, T., Butler, T., Chris Allen, Duncan, J.S., Edwards, J., Elias, N., Foley, D.L., Forrest, R., Friedland, R., Giddens, A., Giddens, A., Goffman, E., Jamieson, L., Jones, G., Ley, D., Rionach Casey, Ryan Powell, Sarah Coward, Savage, M., Savage, M., Savage, M., Silverstone, R., Skeggs, B., Skeggs, B., Warren, D., Whyte, W.S., Willmott, P., Young, M., Zukin, S.   +37 more
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Explanatory factors of university student participation in flamenco [PDF]

, 2019
The present work offers a study exploring University of Seville students’ cultural participation and how often they attend live flamenco shows. Based on the statistical yearbook of this university, a sample of 452 students from different fields was ...
Oliver Alfonso, María Dolores, Palma Martos, Luis Antonio, Sancha Navarro, Jesús Manuel de   +2 more
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Researching Consumer Research. An Analysis of Consumer Researchers in Austria with Some Implications for the Scientific Field and Consumer Policy

European Review Of Applied Sociology, 2019
Since over a decade, there are ongoing debates about the relationships between the scientific field of consumer research and the political field of consumer policy.
Nessel Sebastian
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Smoke gets in your eyes:what is sociological about cigarettes? [PDF]

, 2016
Contemporary public health approaches increasingly draw attention to the unequal social distribution of cigarette smoking. In contrast, critical accounts emphasize the importance of smokers’ situated agency, the relevance of embodiment and how public ...
Adam B., Bauman Z., Benjamin W., Bourdieu P., Brandt A., Campbell C., Dennis S., Donncha Marron, Elster J., Featherstone M., Ferguson H., Giddens A., Goodman J., Graham H., Greaves L., Hens G., Hilton M., Hughes J., Hunt A., Keane H., Lears T. J., Lears T. J., Lupton D., Miller D., Mills C. W., Mintz S., Rudy J., Schor J., Schudson M., Simmel G., Simmel G., Sobel D.   +31 more
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Musical preferences and technologies: Contemporary material and symbolic distinctions criticised [PDF]

, 2015
Today how individuals interact with various cultural items is not perfectly consistent with theoretical frameworks of influential scholars on cultural consumption, such as Bourdieu (1984), Gans (1999), and Peterson and Simkus (1992).
Adrian Leguina, Bull M, Crisell A, French-Davis R, Frith S, Gans HJ, Gayo M, Gonzalez JP, Karmy E, Lebaron F, Paul Widdop, Peterson RA, Pinch T, R Core Team, Sara Arancibia-Carvajal, Van Dijk JAGM, Warde A   +16 more
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Dissecting action sports studies: Past, present, and beyond [PDF]

, 2013
The term “action sports” broadly refers to a wide range of mostly individualized activities such as BMX, kite-surfing, skateboarding, surfing, and snowboarding that differed – at least in their early phases of development – from traditional rule-bound ...
Thorpe, Holly Aysha, Wheaton, Belinda
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La compra de libros como consumo cultural: Un análisis prospectivo de los motivos que generan la demanda

EMPIRIA: Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales
En el presente artículo se analizan los diferentes motivos que conducen a la compra de libros, prestando especial atención a las relaciones sociales de los lectores, a la obtención de estatus mediante la lectura, al desarrollo del proceso de compra de ...
Daniel Alonso-Hernán
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