Al Dente
BBC Station
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Classic FM
collective identity formation
CONSU MPTI
CONSU MPTION
CONSUM PTION
consumer behaviour theory
consumers
Contemporary Society
contingency
CTI
Dependent Households
Digital Tv
domestic technology adoption
elizabeth
empirical studies of consumption practices
environmental food choices
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Everyday Life
gronow
Ho Ld
INA
Intentional Social Actions
jukka
Late Modern Everyday Lives
Life Styles
Lo Ca
log
Media Zombie
Mobile Phone Culture
Mobile Phone's Effects
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Ordinary Consumption
practices
PTI
shove
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Social Exclusivity
social routines analysis
sociology of everyday life
young
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415270373
- Weight: 650g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Aug 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The sociology of consumption has concentrated unduly on the more spectacular and visual aspects of contemporary consumer behaviour, thereby constructing an unbalanced and misleading view. This collection emphasises ordinary rather than extraordinary items, routine and repetitive behaviour rather than conscious decision-making. It studies practical contexts of use rather than decisions to purchase and analyses collective identification rather than personal identity. Each essay argues one or more of these points, for the most part using new empirical material from several different national contexts.
The topics analysed include shopping in Taiwan, second-home ownership in France, environmental considerations concerning food choice in Denmark, the take up of new domestic technologies in Finland and kitchen design in England. Key concepts like tradition, routine and habit are clarified and new conceptual distinctions are made, with the book defending theoretical approaches deriving from Simmel, Weber, Durkheim and Bourdieu.
Ordinary Consumption promotes a distinctive approach to the understanding of the central practices of consumer society, it is a book with a controversial message, one which will be a source of debate about the appropriate agenda for future research.
Jukka Gronow is a Senior Researcher at the Finnish Academy of Science. Alan Warde is Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester, and a co-director fo the ESRC for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC).
