Social Relations and Everyday Consumption Rituals: Barriers or Prerequisites for Sustainability Transformation?
Macro-institutional structures and consumerist culture force and urge people to reproduce unsustainable levels of consumption. A crucial role for sociology, the article argues, is to address theoretically and empirically the intersection between social relations and (over)consumption. The purpose wi...
Main Author: | Magnus Boström |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2021-08-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Sociology |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2021.723464/full |
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