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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A dinâmica dos canais curtos de comercialização: o caso do Projeto Campagna Amica na Itália

open access: yesSociedade e Estado
Resumo A última década esteve marcada pelo surgimento de uma inovação que a literatura internacional reconheceu como redes agroalimentares alternativas (AFN), regidas por uma lógica que se opõe ao regime operado pela grande distribuição e pelas cadeias ...
Flávio Sacco dos Anjos   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sociology of Alcohol Consumption – In Search of a Theory

open access: yesRevija za Sociologiju, 2022
Alcohol consumption takes place in society and because of society. The “social” aspect of this phenomenon gives a meaning that manifests itself in the framework of interaction.
Erik Brezovec
doaj  

‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Factors influencing customer choice on marketplaces: comprehensive analysis

open access: yesВестник университета
A comprehensive analysis of the factors determining consumer behavior in the platform economy has been carried out, with an emphasis on the processes of product selection on marketplaces. Behavioral patterns, typological differences in consumer practices,
J. V. Kuzmina   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

L’avancée de la consommation gourmet au Brésil : notes ethnographiques sur le cas des cafés de spécialité

open access: yesBrésil(s), 2017
Based on an ethnography carried out in Brasilia and São Paulo, this article traces the ways in which coffee has changed as it enters the niche market, when it comes to be appreciated for new reasons, especially the art of sensory tasting.
Mauricio Piatti Lages
doaj   +1 more source

The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach [PDF]

open access: yesThe 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...
openaire   +1 more source

Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
wiley   +1 more source

Why do I have to say what my sexual orientation is if I just want to take a vacation? Experience and expectations of young Italian LGBTQ tourists

open access: yesFuori Luogo, 2019
The traveller’s experience is still somewhat under investigated in research into LGBTQ tourism, and qualitative research on LGBTQ tourists along with disciplinary approaches in the field of the sociology of consumption are rare, also in Italy.
Roberta Bartoletti, Lorenzo Giannini
doaj   +1 more source

Institutionalization of the Sociology of Consumption in Russia

open access: yesJournal of Economic Sociology, 2014
This article explores the process by which a subfield of sociology, the sociology of consumption, became institutionalized in Russia. By “institutionalization” is meant the process of its establishment as an autonomous field of scientific knowledge, university-level discipline and academic community of scholars.
openaire   +3 more sources

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