Research Handbook on the Sociology of Consumption

Edited by Jennifer Smith Maguire, Professor of Cultural Production and Consumption, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

‘The Research Handbook showcases a diverse range of methodological approaches, including ethnography, interviews, longitudinal studies, creative and visual methods and comparative approaches. It also addresses urgent contemporary challenges including the climate crisis and the moral and political dimensions of consumption, presenting possibilities for a more sustainable and just future. This Research Handbook is a fundamental resource for scholars and students of sociology, cultural economics, human geography, consumer behaviour and related social sciences. Policy analysts and professionals in sustainability, circular economies and food systems will also benefit from its valuable insights on the social dynamics that shape consumption patterns.’

• Contents1 Towards a sociological imagination of consumption 1Jennifer Smith MaguirePART I CORE CONCEPTUAL LENSES2 Consumers and consumption 21Daniel Welch3 Consumer culture 46Terhi-Anna Wilska4 Consumer markets: the affluent economy and the social stratification of consumption 60Sophie Dubuisson-QuellierPART II RESEARCH CASESSection 2.1 Arts and Culture5 Sociology of consumption: the case of cultural non-participation 76Riie Heikkilä6 The role of parental cultural capital on children’s participation in arts and culture: a multimethod quantitative approach 86Adrian Leguina, Irmak Karademir and Francisco Azpitarte7 New forms of distinction: cultural elites and the problem of ‘good’ taste 96Dave O’Brien8 Cultural hierarchies they are a-changin’: music in quality newspapers’ culture sections 106Semi PurhonenSection 2.2 Fashion and Style9 New frontiers of cultural intermediation: how social media practitioners (re)intermediate the relationship between production and consumption 117Mariachiara Colucci and Marco Pedron10 “How I shop without sight”: intermediation and inclusion in the fashion mediascape 128Jordan Foster11 Cuteness will bring you joy: kawaii consumption in Japan 139Shiri Lieber-Milo12 Authentic style-fashion-dress consumption of lesbian married couples on their wedding day 148Kelly L. Reddy-Best, Jennifer Paff, Karen Hyllegard, and Courtney MorganSection 2.3 Food and Drink13 Class, feeding practices, and distinction: an ethnographic and longitudinal exploration 163Irmak Karademir14 Revisiting Masters of Craft: theory, design, and findings 174Richard E. Ocejo15 Market transformation in the French coffee scene: an actor-network theory perspective 183Anissa PomièsSection 2.4 Sport and Leisure16 The consumption of violence through sport and physical culture 194Michael Atkinson17 Fandom in the branded playground: experiences of adult LEGO fans worldwide 205Vlada Botorić18 Production, consumption, and prosumption in the masculine health and fitness industry 219Nick Gibbs19 Application of the theory of planned behaviour for predicting sponsorship outcomes in esports 229Olga Polyakova, Anthony D. Pizzo, Thomas Karagiorgos, and Kostas AlexandrisSection 2.5 House and Home20 Housing and consumption: existing tensions and future directions in understanding housing search and selection 240Max Besbris21 The erosion of community, work and everyday life: private housing advertisements in global Hong Kong (1961–2011) 250Kimburley Wing Yee Choi Anita Kit Wa Chan, and Annie Hau Nung Chan22 Shrinking the American Dream? Tiny housing, freedom and crisis in Austin, Texas 263Mel Nowicki, Tim White and Ella Harris23 What is in your drawers? Everyday objects in the home 276Sophie WoodwardSection 2.6 Ordinary and Mundane24 Taking care of resources and stuff: exploring environmental change through mundane domestic consumption in Latin America 286Tomas Ariztia25 How do the ordinary and mundane transform over time? The potential of a biographic-practice approach for sociological research on consumption 296Mary Greene26 A case in practice theory: mortgage debt as ordinary consumption 309Léna Pellandini-Simányi and Zsuzsanna Vargha27 Putting emotions to work: challenging the normativity of practices through research methods 320Marlyne Sahakian and Laurence GodinSection 2.7 Sites and Spaces28 Single origin coffee and dual distinction: coffee shops in contemporary South Korea 331Nate Ming Curran and Michael Chesnut29 Malls, modernity and consumption: Accra’s malls’ new consumption culture and the Ghanaian middle class as consumers of ‘glocal’ modernity 340Alexander Kofi Eduful30 Coming out of the geek cellar: the un-domestication of board gaming 353Alexandra Kviat31 Consuming the public house as social space 363Thomas Thurnell-Read and Robert DeakinSection 2.8 Shopping Experiences and Texts32 Shopping in the bargain basement: re-imagining pleasure and pride on the UK high street 374Alison Hulme33 Addicted to shopping? A critical look at the cultural narrative of retail therapy 383Keeley Megan Buehler Hunter34 Shopping secondhand online as a contribution to the circular economy: a textual analysis of Gumtree Australia 393Aneta PodkalickaSection 2.9 Ethics and Morals35 From the ethics of eating to the ethics of waste: navigating food consumption in the era of abundance 406Anna Sofia Salonen36 Cultural narratives and family practices: examining pro-environmental behaviour in India 416Pallavi Singh, Caroline J. Oates, Panayiota Alevizou, and Sunil Sahadev37 Representations of nouveau riche consumption, class reproduction, and the discourse of civility 425Jennifer Smith Maguire38 Dialogues with the artefacts: a case study of manners and morals in consumption in the historical context of modern Thailand 435Juthamas TangsantikulSection 2.10 Vice and Stigma39 Ethical consumerism and emerging, vice-stigmatized goods: the case of cannabis 448Elizabeth A. Bennett40 Canada’s legal cannabis consumer: fifty years of cultivating the rational-utilitarian subject 465James Cosgrave and Patricia Cormack41 Bingo: lifestyle gambling, precarity and cultural resilience among Pacific migrants in Australia 475John Cox, Kathleen Maltzahn, Sarah MacLean, Helen Lee, and Mary Whiteside42 Headspace and hot yoga: crafting the ‘good’ (non)drinking self in sobriety 486Emily Nicholl