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Communities and consumption / guest editors Carole Bekin, Marylyn Carrigan and Isabelle Szmigin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy ; 27, no. 3/4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communities.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (93 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The community concept has a long history and a prominent place in sociological thinking, yet remains a contentious concept. This e-book explores the diversity of current research on community and consumption, investigating, for example, imagined communities, consumption as community action and, conversely, the limitations of the notion of community.
- Contents:
- Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; The importance of management style in labour retention; Managing social relations: the dimension of intellectual labour; Exploring the social capital grid: bonding, bridging, qualitative, quantitative; Spatial peripheries, social peripheries: reflections on the "suburbs" of Paris; Understanding risk and old age in western society; Could CAFTA be the latest conduit for outsourcing pollution?; Note from the publisher
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-84757-3
- 9786610847570
- 1-84663-421-0
- OCLC:
- 182530542
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