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To delineate the historical trajectory of consumption sociology across three eras and identify key emerging themes in recent scholarship.

May 4, 2015Annual Review of Sociology

The Sociology of Consumption: Its Recent Development

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AWAlan WardeUniversity of Manchester

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Conceptual review uncovers three historical eras of consumption sociology in Western societies, highlighting new frontiers in inequality, sustainability, and politics.

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To delineate the historical trajectory of consumption sociology across three eras and identify key emerging themes in recent scholarship.
Conceptual review synthesizing the disciplinary history across three eras: pre-1980s origins, the 1980s to mid-2000s cultural turn, and subsequent contemporary developments.
Thematic analysis mapping modern theoretical developments to empirical trends in cultural stratification, everyday routines, and political consumption.
Established that scholarship shifted from early structural critiques through the cultural turn to a modern era characterized by institutional and material analyses.
Identified three vibrant contemporary research domains: the nexus of cultural taste with social inequality, sustainable resource consumption in daily life, and consumption politics.

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Alan Warde (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69ff7d5c4716aad0cc855d5f https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-071913-043208

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Conceptual review uncovers three historical eras of consumption sociology in Western societies, highlighting new frontiers in inequality, sustainability, and politics.

The Sociology of Consumption: Its Recent Development

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The Sociology of Consumption: Its Recent Development

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