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Title Communities and consumption / guest editors Carole Bekin, Marylyn Carrigan and Isabelle Szmigin
Published Bradford, England : Emerald Group Pub., ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (pages 100-188)
Series International journal of sociology and social policy, 0144-333X ; vol. 27, no. 3/4
International journal of sociology and social policy ; vol. 27, no. 3/4
Contents Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; The importance of management style in labour retention; Managing social relations: the dimension of intellectual labour; Exploring the social capital grid: bonding, bridging, qualitative, quantitative; Spatial peripheries, social peripheries: reflections on the "suburbs" of Paris; Understanding risk and old age in western society; Could CAFTA be the latest conduit for outsourcing pollution?; Note from the publisher
Summary The community concept has a long history and a prominent place in sociological thinking, yet remains a contentious concept. This e-book explores the diversity of current research on community and consumption, investigating, for example, imagined communities, consumption as community action and, conversely, the limitations of the notion of community
Notes Issued as: International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, v. 27, no. 3/4
Title from PDF title page
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Communities.
Consumption (Economics)
Community life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
Community life
Communities
Consumption (Economics)
Form Electronic book
Author Bekin, Caroline.
Carrigan, Marylyn.
Szmigin, Isabelle.
ISBN 9781846634208
1846634202
9781846634215
1846634210
OTHER TI International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy