Research Handbook on the Sociology of Consumption
Edited by Jennifer Smith Maguire
in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing
Abstract:
This Research Handbook explores the role of consumption in shaping the ways in which we live, work and relate to each other. It brings together sociological research from around the globe to investigate how, where and why we buy and use things, and what daily consumer choices and practices reveal about society.
Keywords: Sociology Of Consumption; Consumer Society; Consumer Culture; Sustainable Consumption; Consumption Practices; Ethical And Political Consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035310500
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Chapters in this book:
- Ch 1 Towards a sociological imagination of consumption
- Jennifer Smith Maguire
- Ch 2 Consumers and consumption
- Daniel Welch
- Ch 3 Consumer culture
- Terhi-Anna Wilska
- Ch 4 Consumer markets: the affluent economy and the social stratification of consumption
- Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier
- Ch 5 Sociology of consumption: the case of cultural non-participation
- Riie Heikkilä
- Ch 6 The role of parental cultural capital on children's participation in arts and culture: a multimethod quantitative approach
- Adrian Leguina, Irmak Karademir and Francisco Azpitarte
- Ch 7 New forms of distinction: cultural elites and the problem of ‘good’ taste
- Dave O’Brien
- Ch 8 Cultural hierarchies they are a-changin’: music in quality newspapers’ culture sections
- Semi Purhonen
- Ch 9 New frontiers of cultural intermediation: how social media practitioners (re)intermediate the relationship between production and consumption
- Mariachiara Colucci and Marco Pedroni
- Ch 10 “How I shop without sight”: intermediation and inclusion in the fashion mediascape
- Jordan Foster
- Ch 11 Cuteness will bring you joy: kawaii consumption in Japan
- Shiri Lieber-Milo
- Ch 12 Authentic style-fashion-dress consumption of lesbian married couples on their wedding day
- Kelly L. Reddy-Best, Jennifer Paff, Karen Hyllegard and Courtney Morgan
- Ch 13 Class, feeding practices, and distinction: an ethnographic and longitudinal exploration
- Irmak Karademir
- Ch 14 Revisiting Masters of Craft: theory, design, and findings
- Richard E. Ocejo
- Ch 15 Market transformation in the French coffee scene: an actor-network theory perspective
- Anissa Pomiès
- Ch 16 The consumption of violence through sport and physical culture
- Michael Atkinson
- Ch 17 Fandom in the branded playground: experiences of adult LEGO fans worldwide
- Vlada Botorić
- Ch 18 Production, consumption, and prosumption in the masculine health and fitness industry
- Nick Gibbs
- Ch 19 Application of the theory of planned behaviour for predicting sponsorship outcomes in esports
- Olga Polyakova, Anthony D. Pizzo, Thomas Karagiorgos and Kostas Alexandris
- Ch 20 Housing and consumption: existing tensions and future directions in understanding housing search and selection
- Max Besbris
- Ch 21 The erosion of community, work and everyday life: private housing advertisements in global Hong Kong (1961–2011)
- Kimburley Wing Yee Choi, Anita Kit Wa Chan and Annie Hau Nung Chan
- Ch 22 Shrinking the American Dream? Tiny housing, freedom and crisis in Austin, Texas
- Mel Nowicki, Tim White and Ella Harris
- Ch 23 What is in your drawers? Everyday objects in the home
- Sophie Woodward
- Ch 24 Taking care of resources and stuff: exploring environmental change through mundane domestic consumption in Latin America
- Tomas Ariztia
- Ch 25 How do the ordinary and mundane transform over time? The potential of a biographic-practice approach for sociological research on consumption
- Mary Greene
- Ch 26 A case in practice theory: mortgage debt as ordinary consumption
- Léna Pellandini-Simányi and Zsuzsanna Vargha
- Ch 27 Putting emotions to work: challenging the normativity of practices through research methods
- Marlyne Sahakian and Laurence Godin
- Ch 28 Single origin coffee and dual distinction: coffee shops in contemporary South Korea
- Nate Ming Curran and Michael Chesnut
- Ch 29 Malls, modernity and consumption: Accra's malls’ new consumption culture and the Ghanaian middle class as consumers of ‘glocal’ modernity
- Alexander Kofi Eduful
- Ch 30 Coming out of the geek cellar: the un-domestication of board gaming
- Alexandra Kviat
- Ch 31 Consuming the public house as social space
- Thomas Thurnell-Read and Robert Deakin
- Ch 32 Shopping in the bargain basement: re-imagining pleasure and pride on the UK high street
- Alison Hulme
- Ch 33 Addicted to shopping? A critical look at the cultural narrative of retail therapy
- Keeley Megan Buehler Hunter
- Ch 34 Shopping secondhand online as a contribution to the circular economy: a textual analysis of Gumtree Australia
- Aneta Podkalicka
- Ch 35 From the ethics of eating to the ethics of waste: navigating food consumption in the era of abundance
- Anna Sofia Salonen
- Ch 36 Cultural narratives and family practices: examining pro-environmental behaviour in India
- Pallavi Singh, Caroline J. Oates, Panayiota Alevizou and Sunil Sahadev
- Ch 37 Representations of nouveau riche consumption, class reproduction, and the discourse of civility
- Jennifer Smith Maguire
- Ch 38 Dialogues with the artefacts: a case study of manners and morals in consumption in the historical context of modern Thailand
- Juthamas Tangsantikul
- Ch 39 Ethical consumerism and emerging, vice-stigmatized goods: the case of cannabis
- Elizabeth A. Bennett
- Ch 40 Canada's legal cannabis consumer: fifty years of cultivating the rational-utilitarian subject
- James Cosgrave and Patricia Cormack
- Ch 41 Bingo: lifestyle gambling, precarity and cultural resilience among Pacific migrants in Australia
- John Cox, Kathleen Maltzahn, Sarah MacLean, Helen Lee and Mary Whiteside
- Ch 42 Headspace and hot yoga: crafting the ‘good’ (non)drinking self in sobriety
- Emily Nicholls
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