Vol.
7, No. 2, May 2006
Consumers
and Consumption Regular Sessions
ASA 2006, Montreal
Consumers
and Consumption
Organizer
and Presider:
Sharon Zukin, City University of New York Graduate Center
Papers:
"Real Jeeps
Are Built- Not Bought": The Social Construction of Authenticity
in a Lifestyle Community
Michael Rosenbaum, Indiana University
In Praise
of the Consumer Critic
Juliet Schor, Boston College
Mecca-Cola
and its War on Coca-Cola
Uri Ram, Ben Gurion University
The Logics
of "Local": Consumption, Politics & Belonging in a Small Town
Lyn Macgregor, University of Montana
Sociology
of Culture section session on Cultures of the Marketplace
Organizer
and Presider:
Laura J. Miller, Brandeis University
Papers:
The Gentlemanly
Market: the Culture of the London Gold Fix
Rachel Harvey, University of Chicago
Movement
in a Market: Explaining Fair Trade Framing Strategies
Keith Brown, University of Pennsylvania
The Institutionalization
and Inversion of Morals in the Secondary Market for Life Insurance
Sarah Quinn, University of California, Berkeley
Selling Cultural
Genealogy: Marketing the Classical Past in 17th-C France
Chandra Mukerji, University of California, San Diego
Section
on the Sociology of Culture
Consumer Studies Research Network Roundtable
Organizer:
Daniel Thomas Cook, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Papers:
Peddlers,
Shops, and Pre-Industrial Consumers: Precursors of Consumer Culture
and Unplanned Buying
Michael Wood, Hunter College
The Mastering
of Musical Conduct in the Atomic Age
Randal Doane, Oberlin College
From Women's
Sports and Fitness to Self: Third Wave Feminism and
the Consumption Conundrum
Faye Linda Wachs, Cal Poly Pomona and Shari Lee Dworkin, Columbia
University
Risk in the
Marketplace: Shopping and Inequality in Urban China
Amy Hanser, University of British Columbia
The
Global Child: Consumption, Childhood and National Identity: An
Informal Roundtable Discussion
Organizer:
Nicholas Sammond, University of Toronto
Discussants:
Elizabeth
Bernstein, Barnard University
Dan Cook University of Illinois
Kerwin
Kaye, New York University
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