... the theoretical lens of Weick’s work on sensemaking, this article explains how consumers collectively decipher and pursue their political interests. Based on historiographic data among Gaúchos in Southern Brazil, the findings detail how improvised enactments of consumer culture trigger interpretive capacities...

... in some of these new technologies; corporations write long disclaimers and leave protecting their personal privacy in the hands of consumers. Several scholars would advise world leaders about sustainability issues. Eric would tell them that “…consumer culture that has unlocked an enormous amount...

...-assemblages with subsets of brand components, and the interactions of such sub-assemblages in the change and continuity of a brand assemblage, we complement former studies in shedding light on the continued allure of brands in consumer culture increasingly characterized by the instability of heterogeneity...

.... In doing so, they also shed light on the complex lived experiences of a vulnerable social group that has become almost equal. stigma stigmatized consumers gay men LGBTQ subculture consumer culture What we want is to get rid of discrimination. We don’t want to be the same, but we want to have the same...

... we examine how these tensions play out in the existing literature on influencer industries along three lines: amateur authenticity, strategic authenticity, and emotional authenticity. social media influencers Instagram consumer culture authenticity Chile In 2018, the Business of Fashion...

... consumer culture There is no escaping the specter of ideology. In 2020, when diversity, equity and inclusion came to the forefront in US society, painting “Black Lives Matter” in big yellow letters on US streets (an idea conceived by Washington DC’s Mayor Muriel Bowser) was called a “patriotic statement...

... ) Nutrition Food Safety Consumer Culture Regulation Bacteriology Botulism In 1933, the Visual Display Company designed a glass contraption that could be fitted onto cans to showcase a sample of the food hidden inside. The gadget was one of many strategies pursued by manufacturers and advertisers...

... of the way in which the contemporary capitalism generates harm. fraud acquisitive criminality neoliberalism consumer culture criminal identities harm Central to the accounts of all of the men who participated in the study was their desire to present themselves as successful businessmen. Regardless...

... is intended to capture the ideas that: (a) social media users perform lifestyles whose constituent elements can be bought; and (b) sociality increasingly unfolds within platforms that encode marketplace logics and capacities into their designs. Drawing on literatures about consumer culture, celebrity...

..., but achieved a high degree of popularity in both Britain and the United States. ³ Physiology Digestion Public Health Medicinal Foods Consumer Culture Abstract In the nineteenth century, food and diet became central to a public health increasingly focused on individual behavior and on the cost...

.... For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] 2017 This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/about_us/legal/notices ) Contemporary consumer culture and liquid modernity...

... theorization consumer culture theory We knew we wanted to tell a story about change, a story about how various actors, including consumers, entrepreneurs and others, created the yoga marketplace as we know it today. We believed in the theoretical importance of capturing changes in consumer behavior...

... ambiguities that can lead gender researchers to conflate gender performativity with social performances. consumer culture theory marketplace performances gender consumer identity projects the sociology of consumption consumer resistance “It is important to understand performativity—which is distinct...

... themselves and celebrators. Beyond the context, contributions to the study of symbolic boundaries, identity politics, and collective consumption rituals are discussed. ritual symbolic boundaries identity consumer culture theory Collective consumption acts at times as the nexus for human connection...

... perpetuate multiple subjectivities. Advertising Gender Mothering Ideology Mobile Communication Consumer Culture Semiotic Analysis. Motherhood is a socially shaped ideological construct that represents patterns of values and moral beliefs that reflect specific expectations of societal groups ( Geertz...

.... For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] 2012 Abstract This article is an initial analysis and theorization of original ethnographic data gathered from young men who participated in the English riots of August 2011. The data consistently suggest that consumer culture supplied these young men...

... neoliberal views of the political establishment. Australia food policy values prevalence consumer culture Australians, like populations in other developed economies, do not consume adequate quantities of fruits and vegetables that are consistent with optimal health. For example, in 2006, only one in 10...

...Sandra Carlisle; Phil Hanlon Does consumer culture pose a threat to well-being? If so, the public health and health promotion community needs to re-think the relationship between these two concepts. In this article, we consider this relationship by taking a critical look at how well-being...

... of consumers from different regions and backgrounds as they indigenized, integrated, enhanced, and reinvented opium smoking as something Chinese. The demand for drugs’ rising consumption drove its rising trade, foreign conflicts, prohibition, and modern state “opium regimes.” Drug consumer culture offers...

... and approaches that include commodity histories and the study of imports, local development, the arrival of modernity, globalization, consumer culture, and the relationship between consumption and political activism. consumerism commodity history globalization consumer culture political activism consumer...