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Social relations and challenges to consuming less in a mass consumption society

Sociologisk Forskning, 2022
Increasing numbers of people in welfare societies express worries about their ecological footprint. Some make efforts to significantly reduce their consumption.
Magnus Boström
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Girls and the Media: Girlhood Studies Agenda and Prospects in Italy [PDF]

, 2017
Within the Italian context, girlhood studies can hardly be considered a specific field: adolescence and gender construction in Italy have historically been investigated by sociology and psychology, although, in recent years, media studies have also ...
Romana Ando'
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The challenge of cultural gerontology [PDF]

, 2014
Over the last decade, Cultural Gerontology has emerged as one of the most vibrant elements of writing about age (Twigg, J., & Martin, W. (Eds.) (2015). The Routledge handbook of cultural gerontology. London: Routledge). Reflecting the wider Cultural Turn,
Helen Q. Kivnick, Julia Twigg, Wendy Martin   +2 more
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The Role of Social Food Infrastructure in Addressing SNAP Participation Gaps: Evidence From Linked Administrative and Ground‐Sourced Data

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We link American Community Survey and SNAP records for 185,000 units with ground‐sourced social food infrastructure data from FindFoodIL (Illinois Extension SNAP‐Ed) to examine SNAP participation determinants among eligible units. Bivariate probit models reveal, beyond SNAP offices, quantity of social infrastructure is associated with ...
Michael Lotspeich‐Yadao, Caitlin Kownacki, Jennifer McCaffrey, Craig Wesley Carpenter   +3 more
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A dinâmica dos canais curtos de comercialização: o caso do Projeto Campagna Amica na Itália

Sociedade 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, Nádia Velleda Caldas   +1 more
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How Does Cultural and Colonial Heritage Affect Optimal Branding Strategies? Evidence From the Rice Sector in Senegal

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Factors influencing customer choice on marketplaces: comprehensive analysis

Вестник 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, A. N. Khripunova, G. R. Mukhametshina   +2 more
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Understanding halal food production and consumption in 'the West'. Beyond dominant narratives

Cambio, 2020
In recent decades, the visibility of halal food has become a highly emotive and controversial social practice, with halal meat in particular being seen as an indicator of the growing presence of Islam and what are seen to be ‘barbaric’ Muslim food ...
John Lever
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Getting beyond the surface : using geometric data analysis in cultural sociology [PDF]

, 2016
Geometric Data Analysis (GDA) refers to a group of statistical techniques that disclose underlying patterns in categorized data. GDA represents categories of variables and individuals as points in a multi-dimensional Euclidean space.
Roose, Henk
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Omnivorousness in sport: The importance of social capital and networks [PDF]

, 2014
There has been for some time a significant and growing body of research around the relationship between sport and social capital. Similarly, within sociology there has been a corpus of work that has acknowledged the emergence of the omnivore–univore ...
Asparouhov T, Auld C, Borgatti SP, Bourdieu P, Bourdieu P, Bourdieu P, Bourdieu P, Cha V, Coleman JS, Crossley N, David Cutts, Delaney L, Grant Jarvie, Jarvie G, Jarvie G, Jowell T, Lin N, Nicholson M, Paul Widdop, Peterson RA, Putnam R, Putnam R, Ranard R, Van der Gaag MPJ   +23 more
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