Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity (Sociology for a Changing World)

Politics & Social Sciences

Savage, Michael

Warde, Alan

Anthropology

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This book traces the development of market research, its technical resources, its personnel and its organizations. Among its key themes are:  the rise and fall of occupational control development of new techniques for studying consumers the impact of ICTs establishing and maintaining relationships with clients and consumers the changing contours of industrial competition.  This academically and critically rigorous assessment of the market research industry will be of interest across a number of spheres including marketing, organization studies, sociology, consumer behaviour, contemporary economic and social history, and geography and institutional economics.

A History of Market Research: Intermediating Production and Consumption (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)

Business & Money

McMeekin, Andrew

Randles, Sally

Economics

Routledge

Culture, Class, Distinction (CRESC)

Choice Recommended Title, February 2010 Culture, Class, Distinction is major contribution to international debates regarding the role of cultural capital in relation to modern forms of inequality. Drawing on a national study of the organisation of cultural practices in contemporary Britain, the authors review Bourdieu’s classic study of the relationships between culture and class in the light of subsequent debates. In doing so they re-appraise the relationships between class, gender and ethnicity, music, film, television, literary, and arts consumption, the organisation of sporting and culinary practices, and practices of bodily and self maintenance. As the most comprehensive account to date of the varied interpretations of cultural capital that have been developed in the wake of Bourdieu’s work, Culture, Class, Distinction offers the first systematic assessment of the relationships between cultural practice and the social divisions of class, gender and ethnicity in contemporary Britain. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationships between culture and society.

WRIGHT, DAVID

Bennett, Tony

Savage, Mike

Silva, Elizabeth Bortolaia

Gayo-Cal, Modesto

Social Sciences

Culture, Class, Distinction is major contribution to international debates regarding the role of cultural capital in relation to modern forms of inequality. Drawing on a national study of the organisation of cultural practices in contemporary Britain, the authors review Bourdieu’s classic study of the relationships between culture and class in the light of subsequent debates. In doing so they re-appraise the relationships between class, gender and ethnicity, music, film, television, literary, and arts consumption, the organisation of sporting and culinary practices, and practices of bodily and self maintenance. As the most comprehensive account to date of the varied interpretations of cultural capital that have been developed in the wake of Bourdieu’s work, Culture, Class, Distinction offers the first systematic assessment of the relationships between cultural practice and the social divisions of class, gender and ethnicity in contemporary Britain. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationships between culture and society.

Eating Out is a fascinating study of the consumption of food outside the home. Through surveys and intensive interviews carried out in England in the 1990s, the authors have collected a wealth of information into people's attitudes toward, and expectations of, eating out as a form of entertainment and an expression of taste and status. This book will be a valuable resource to academics, advanced students and practitioners in the sociology of consumption, cultural studies, tourism and hospitality, home economics, marketing and to the general reader.

Eating Out: Social Differentiation, Consumption and Pleasure

Martens, Lydia

Cambridge University Press

The third edition of the highly-acclaimed Contemporary BritishSociety is the only textbook to provide comprehensive coverageof all aspects of the social structure of modern Britain.Completely revised and updated, this new edition employs the verylatest statistical information and empirical studies, and examinesall the new arguments and debates concerning modern Britishsociety. Separate chapters explore the major areas of modern life inBritain - economic organization, employment, patterns ofinequality, class, gender, ethnicity, family and households,education, health, media, deviance and politics. New to thisedition are chapters on globalization, associations, andleisure.The emphasis throughout the book is on an accessible,user-friendly, and non-technical approach. It is written in ajargon-free and approachable style; there is extensivecross-referencing and frequent and clear summarizing of arguments;and numerous photographs, diagrams, graphs, drawings and cartoonscomplement and illuminate the text.Contemporary British Society is written for students ofintroductory sociology whether they are taking 'A' level or are inthe first year of an undergraduate course in a higher educationinstitution. It will also be useful for those taking courses inother subjects, such as social policy, health and town planning,which demand knowledge of particular aspects of Britishsociety.Please visit the accompanying website at:http://www.polity.co.uk/cbs3

Contemporary British Society

Abercrombie, Nicholas

Polity

The Practice of Eating

This book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption. It identifies new ways to approach the explanation of food choice and it develops new concepts which will help reshape and reorient common understandings. Leading sociologist of food, Alan Warde, deals both with abstract issues about theories of practice and substantive analyses of aspects of eating, demonstrating how theories of practice can be elaborated and systematically applied to the activity of eating. The book falls into two parts. The first part establishes a basis for a practice-theoretic account of eating. Warde reviews research on eating, introduces theories of practice and constructs eating as a scientific object. The second part develops key concepts for the analysis of eating as a practice, showing how concepts like habit, routine, embodiment, repetition and convention can be applied to explain how eating is organised and coordinated through the generation, reproduction and transformation of a multitude of individual performances. The Practice of Eating thus addresses both substantive problems concerning the explanation of food habits and currently controversial issues in social theory, illustrated by detailed empirical analysis of some aspects of contemporary culinary life. It will become required reading for students and scholars of food and consumption in a wide range of disciplines, from sociology, anthropology and cultural studies to food studies, culinary studies and nutrition science.

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Education & Reference

Consumption, Food and Taste

Exploring the expression of taste through the processes of consumption this book provides an incisive and accessible evaluation of the current theories of consumption, and trends in the representation and purchase of food. Alan Warde outlines various theories of change in the twentieth century, and considers the parallels between their diagnoses of consumer behaviour and actual trends in food practices. He argues that dilemmas of modern practical life and certain imperatives of the culture of consumption make sense of food selection. He suggests that contemporary consumption is best viewed as a process of continual selection among an unprecedented range of generally accessible items which are made available both commerciall

Sage Publications Ltd.

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