Vol. 10, No. 2, May 2009

ASA Consumer Sessions

Consumers and Consumption 1
Ethics and Consumption: More Choice or More Coercion?

Organizer:
J. Michael Ryan, University of Maryland

Presider:
Zsuzsanna Vargha, Columbia University

Papers:
Does it Matter Why Somebody Buys Organic Food? Consumption and Public Good in Ethical Industries
Michael Haedicke

Reflexivity and the Whole Food Market Consumer: The lived experience of shopping for change (and pleasure)
Josee Johnston and Michelle Szabo

The Consumer Cooperative Movement: An analysis of class and consumption - Joshua Carreiro
The Social Genesis of Moral Consumption: A Durkheimian View
Melissa Pirkey

Discussant:
Karen Bettez Halnon, Pennsylvania State University

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Consumers and Consumption 2
Representations of Consumer Practices and Consumer Attitudes

Organizer:
J. Michael Ryan, University of Maryland

Presider:
Josee Johnston, University of Toronto

Papers:
Price Check on "Free": Educational Excellence or Opportunisitic Marketing
Deborah Kraklow

Promises for Profit: Commodification of Meaning and Culture in the Marketing of PostSecondary Education
Nicole Marborano van Cleve

The Consumption of Disaster: Historical Roots and Contemporary Implications
Timothy Recuber

Consumer Credit Attitudes
Sara Skiles

Discussant:
Katherine Chen, CUNY

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Sociology of Culture Roundtable: Consumer Studies Research Network

Presider
Amy Best, George Mason University

Papers:
Consumer culture and (inter)national identification processes: a figurational
approach
Paddy Dolan, Dublin Institute of Technology

Religion and Consumption: Does Denomination and Religiosity Affect Demand for Labor Friendly and Animal-Welfare Friendly Products?
Danielle Deemer, The Ohio State University
Linda Lobao, The Ohio State University

Consuming Identity:  Consumption Practices among the Middle Class in India
Bhavani Arabandi, University of Virginia

Consumer Institutions in Consumer Markets: Local Bicycle Clubs,  National Bicycle Associations, and the Cycling Press in France and the  United States, 1875-1910
Thomas Burr, Illinois State University

Entraining Publics: Fashions, Fads, and Fans
Elizabeth Wissinger , BMCC City University of New York

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