Consumption, Sociology of

Ilmonen, Kaj

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“…This group marks itself through conspicuous consumption: the acquirement of leisure and goods in order to better one's social status (Veblen, 1926in Ilmonen, 2001). The conspicuous consumption that sets the preppies apart from the rest is usually expensive.…”

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Multi - Girl - Culture : An Ethnography of Doing Identity

Duits¹

2008

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Multi - Girl - Culture : An Ethnography of Doing Identity

Duits¹

2008

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“…Sociology has looked at the relation between fashion, luxury goods, social classes and status in works by Simmel and Veblen (Ilmonen, 2001). Anthropologists also mention the role of taste and fashion in consumption.…”

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“…Baudrillard (1998Baudrillard ( [1970), a sociologist, argues that products are not consumed for their own use, but for their signs, symbols or meanings. Other sociologists also see consumption as a "meaningful social activity" (Ilmonen, 2001(Ilmonen, , p.2688) "which conveys information about the consumer's identity to those who witness it" (Campbell, 1995, p.111).…”

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Consumption:the elephant in the room

Ribeiro¹

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The consumption of goods and services is an understudied key contributor to the climate and environmental crises. In this dissertation we investigated how to change and reduce consumption for sustainability, from a broad multi-disciplinary perspective. First, based on a ten-discipline review of what influences consumption, we present a framework emphasizing that consumption, much more than driven by “consumers”, is a complex phenomenon that arises from the (inter)actions of multiple agents and contexts. Governments, businesses, marketers, producers, and media are some of these actors. They influence and are influenced by social, cultural, geographic, infrastructural, technological, political, institutional, economic, and historical contexts. Historical research indicates that the shift to a consumer society was a deliberate process set with the intention of stimulating the growth-economy. As a next step we investigated what it takes to reduce consumption. We concluded that it requires abstaining from consumption, but also consuming differently (e.g., second-hand, good-quality, non-disposable), engaging in low-consumption practices (e.g., sharing, repairing, self-provisioning) and contexts that enable low-consumption living. The remaining chapters of the dissertation focused on how to change food systems for sustainability, by investigating in detail actors and contexts of Alternative Food Networks (AFNs). We interviewed organisers of AFNs in three countries (Portugal, Poland, and the Netherlands) to understand the factors that support or hinder the development of diverse types of AFNs. Finally, in a case-study of a non-profit food co-op supermarket we studied how food waste is managed (quantitatively and qualitatively) and showed how it differed from conventional retail.

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Economic sociology â old and new

Daoud

Larsson

2011

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Consumption, Sociology of

Cited by 3 publications

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Multi - Girl - Culture : An Ethnography of Doing Identity

Multi - Girl - Culture : An Ethnography of Doing Identity

Consumption:the elephant in the room

Economic sociology â old and new

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