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Working to consume: consumers as the missing link in the division of labour [PDF]

, 2013
This paper argues that the work of consumers is a significant and constantly developing field of work, and proposes a conceptual framework for understanding consumption work as part of the division of labour. The labour associated with consumption is not
Glucksmann, MA
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Consumer credit in comparative perspective [PDF]

, 2018
We review the literature in sociology and related fields on the fast global growth of consumer credit and debt and the possible explanations for this expansion.
Aalbers MB, Akos Rona-Tas, Alya Guseva, Andreeva G, Bar-Gill O, Carruthers BG, Casolaro L, Chung RK, Deleuze G, Doneda D, Durst J, Dwyer RE, Evans DS, Fourcade M, Frank R, Guseva A, Guérin I, Harvey D, Hrustič T, Hurley M, Ibragimova D, Jappelli T, Krenn K, Krippner GR, Kuzina O, Laferté G, Lazarus J, Lazzarato M, Lissowska M, Mandell L, Matuszyk A, Miller MJ, Minty S, Niemi J, Olcoń-Kubicka M, Pitluck AZ, Rajan RG, Ramsay I, Rona-Tas A, Rona-Tas A, Rona-Tas A, Schor J, Skiba PM, Spindler G, Stoesz D, Sullivan TA, Veblen T, Wherry FF, World Bank.   +48 more
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Data, not documents: Moving beyond theories of information‐seeking behavior to advance data discovery

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 649-664, April 2025.
Abstract Many theories of human information behavior (HIB) assume that information objects are in text document format. This paper argues four important HIB theories are insufficient for describing users' search strategies for data because of assumptions about the attributes of objects that users seek.
Anthony J. Million, Jeremy York, Sara Lafia, Libby Hemphill   +3 more
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

Fuori 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
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Regional Shopping Objectives in British Grocery Retail Transactions Using Segmented Topic Models

Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding the customer behaviours behind transactional data has high commercial value in the grocery retail industry. Customers generate millions of transactions every day, choosing and buying products to satisfy specific shopping needs.
Mariflor Vega Carrasco, Mirco Musolesi, Jason O'Sullivan, Rosie Prior, Ioanna Manolopoulou   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Uncertainty, Social Norms and Consumption Theory: Post and New Keynesian Approaches [PDF]

, 2009
Consumption theory has always been a neglected eld in Post Keynesian economics, whereas it is at the center of New Keynesian economics. This paper investigates similarities and differences between the two approaches. I will show that the newer mainstream
Menz, Jan-Oliver
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source

Institutionalization of the Sociology of Consumption in Russia

Journal 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.
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A typology of schools across the four nations of the United Kingdom: Class, race and geography

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper we analyse the hierarchical field of schools across the United Kingdom during the transition to university and suggest that there are five socially distinct clusters of schools. Our five‐cluster typology of UK schools is composed of an established group of elite private and state schools, schools for the white rural and suburban ...
Sol Gamsu, Håkan Forsberg
wiley   +1 more source

Food banks in schools in England

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the number and distribution of food banks in schools in England. Drawing on a novel source of nationally representative data, we show that one in five schools operate a food bank. This amounts to over 4000 school‐based food banks across the country.
William Baker, George Leckie, Cathryn Knight   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source