Vol.
6, No. 2, May 2004
ASA Consumption Sessions
There were many good submissions from which 3 sessions totaling 14 papers in all were chosen. These represent an interesting mix of perspectives and approaches being brought to the study of consumers, commodities and consumption. Check the ASA schedule for other papers and sessions not included here.
ASA 2005
Philadelphia, PA
August 14-17
Consumers and Consumption Regular Sessions
Theoretical Considerations in the Sociology of Consumption
Organizer and Presider
Daniel Thomas Cook, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Papers:
The "Consumer" Mistake: Genesis and Impact of a Key Conceptual Error
Michael Dawson, Portland State University
Global Consumption: McDonaldization or Multicultural Hybridization?
Janet Lorenzen, Rutgers University
"The Settings of Consumption: Cathedrals, Landscapes, and Communities"
J. Michael Ryan, University of Maryland-College Park
Therapeutic Marketing and the Pathological Contradictions of Consumer Culture
Joseph Rumbo, James Madison University
Discussion:
Chris Rojek, Nottingham-Trent University
Papers engage with key theoretical debates and concerns regarding what consumption is, how it is to be conceptualized, it consequences and the implications of various conceptualizations.
Consumption, Morality and Politics
Organizer and Presider
Daniel Thomas Cook, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Papers:
Moralistic Consumption: Framing Fair Trade
Keith Brown, University of Pennsylvania
Faith Based Networks and the Central American Coffee Business
Amy Reynolds, Princeton University
Politics and Products: The Commercial Underpinnings of the Natural Foods Movement
Laura Miller, Brandeis University
The 'Authenticities' of Ethnic and Tourist Arts: Meanings and money in village handicraft workshops and small-sized factories
Frederick Wherry, University of Pennsylvania
Shopping for Sustainability: Green Consumption as a Means for Social Change
Wendy Wiedenhoft, John Carroll University
Papers address how consumption is implicated in moral and political discourses and practices through detailed empirical research.
Consumption, Culture, Taste and Markets
Organizer and Presider
Daniel Thomas Cook, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Papers:
The Instability of Omnivorous Cultural Taste Over Time
Gabriel Rossman, Princeton University; Richard Peterson, Vanderbilt University
The Omnivore Thesis Revisited: Voracious Cultural Consumers
Tally Katz-Gerro, University of Haifa; Oriel Sullivan, Ben-Gurion University
Culinary Deserts, Gastronomic Oases: A Classification of U.S. Cities
Zachary Neal, University of Illinois at Chicago
Tea Leaves or Tracking? Anticipating the audience for popular cinema
Lakshmi Srinivas, Wellesley College
"Country Roads" to Internationalization: Sociological Models for Understanding American Popular Music in China
Heidi Netz and Grant Blank, American University
Papers discuss a myriad of ways in which taste is adjudicated between markets and culture when consumption is the focus. Authors address the tensions between structural and agentive factors.
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