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In Pursuit of Happiness: Disentangling Sustainable Consumption, Consumer Alienation, and Social Desirability
This study makes a novel attempt to disentangle the complex relationships between making sustainable purchasing choices and happiness, while also...
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Emporia and the Exclusion Identity: Conservative Populist Alienation in the USA and Its Anti-immigrationism
Analyses of the anti-immigration focus of right-wing populism are regularly inhibited by the conventional terminology employed. The ‘economic...
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Imaginary Worlds and Contemporary Alienation
In this chapter, the author summarizes what has been learned through the three substantive case studies in the book and shows how such studies can be...
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Toward a theory of alienation: futurelessness in financial capitalism
There is an extensive body of literature detailing the forces behind and experiences of alienation in a modern capitalist world. However, social...
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Technology and Alienation
Chapter 3 “Technology and Alienation” explores the downsides and potential alienating effects of immersion in a high-tech world, as well as...
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The spear of capital and the shield of labor: Chinese model of emotional labor in domestic work
The theory of emotional labor, originating from the institutional background of the Western social and cultural system, is committed to criticizing...
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The Craft Consumer: Culture, Craft and Consumption in a Postmodern Society
This chapter proposes that social scientists should explicitly recognize the existence of consumers who engage in ‘craft consumption’ and, hence, of...
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Between Self-Change and Social Change: On the Present of the 1970s Alternative Consumption Discourse
Starting from the currency of ecological attitudes and protest phenomena in the course of the so-called climate debate, the essay asks about their...
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Mature (‘Mündige’) Consumers—A Practice-Theoretical Revision
The guiding principle of the mature (‘mündige’) consumer has fallen into disrepute. However, the criticism is based on the socio-theoretical...
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Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health: a neoclassical sociological approach
Deindustrialization is a major burden on workers’ health in many countries, calling for theoretically informed sociological analysis. Here, we...
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Mature (‘Mündige’) Consumers—A Practice-Theoretical Revision
The guiding principle of the mature (‘mündige’) consumer has fallen into disrepute. However, the criticism is based on the socio-theoretical...
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Abstract socialities: digital advertising work and behavioural data modelling in Istanbul
Behavioural advertising and algorithmic data trade found fertile ground in Turkey in 2014 as government sponsored corporations demanded “image...
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Between Self-Change and Social Change: On the Present of the Alternative Consumption Discourse of the 1970s
Starting from the current economic cycle of ecological attitudes and protest phenomena in the course of the so-called climate debate, the essay asks...
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Rethinking Consumption—To Make Things Better
Below, I describe personal views on the topic of consumption, from which I justify my commitment to consumer policy. In this description, I am...
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Economy of Consumption : Starting with Lipovetsky and Bauman
This chapter is dedicated to the theme of the economy, or rather to the theme of consumption, as the main social and individual reference of the...
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Consumption as Alienation: Diffusion of the National Pastime
This chapter describes the incorporation of Soqotra as the last frontier in the relentless conquest of a commodity over Yemen’s territorial totality...
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Rethinking Consumption—To Make Things Better
Below, I describe personal views on the topic of consumption, from which I justify my commitment to consumer policy. In this description, I am...
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Dark Sides of Consumption: How Consumers Trick and Deceive
Members of civil society often prove to be rude and egocentric in everyday life. For example, they lie to compensate for a disadvantage, or they...
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Mythic Operators: Jean Baudrillard and the Rhetoric of Designation
This chapter focuses on the “rhetoric of designation” probed by Jean Baudrillard in reference to the media narration and informative strategies...
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The Message in a New Phase of Television: An Exploration of the Dichotomy of Good and Evil
Drawing on the ideas of several key sociologists, and the central argument that reality and representation have become blurred, this conceptual paper...