We are now inviting submissions for our new section blog, Consume This! This is a forum to share write-ups of your work, interesting takes on current topics in consumption, interviews with consumption scholars, or other ideas you may have. Don’t be shy! If you have an idea for a blog post, contact Kate Cairns: kate.cairns [at] rutgers.edu
BEST BOOK AWARD Winner- Michaela DeSoucey (North Carolina State University) for Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Honorable Mention- Kate Cairns (Rutgers University-Camden) and Josée Johnston (University of Toronto) for Food and Femininity. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD Winner- Caitlin Daniel (Harvard) for (2016) “Economic Constraints on Taste Formation …
By Cortney Anderson, Pomona College This semester I had the opportunity to conduct some unofficial sociological research for a class called Self-Publishing for Artists. Our assignment was to create a serial publication on a topic of our choice so, my magazine, sample, engages with a topic that has interested me for some time: substance use …
Congratulations to section member Terence E. McDonnell on the publication of his book Best Laid Plans: Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling of AIDS Media Campaigns. The book came out in August 2016 with the University of Chicago Press. Description: We see it all the time: organizations strive to persuade the public to change beliefs or behavior through expensive, expansive … Continue reading
Check out this great feature in The Huffington Post on Michaela DeSoucey’s new book, Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food. Continue reading
Food in Social Life: A Mini-Conference on the Sociology of Food 2017 ESS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, February 23-26 Sociologists are increasingly exploring “foodways,” food habits, and institutions from production through consumption. The scholarly study of food invokes issues of gender, class, labor, and cultural/ethnic identities, and using food as a lens helps us understand these … Continue reading
By Sarah Cappeliez, University of Toronto Kjerstin Gruys is a Thinking Matters fellow at Stanford University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. Her research evolved from a personal interest in body image and beauty, and examines the relationship between physical appearance and social inequality. Nicki Lisa Cole … Continue reading
By Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center Waiting for a friend in the fitting room at UNIQLO’s “global flagship store” in SoHo, New York, last Saturday afternoon, I saw how popular the Japanese chain’s products are with all kinds of consumers. Spanish-speaking families with teenage children, a Chinese-speaking couple with a toddler, and … Continue reading
By Nicki Lisa Cole, Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society This fourth issue of Consumed marks my last as Editor-in-Chief, and signals the final three months of my role as Communications Coordinator for the section. The two years I’ve spent in this role have been immensely enriching and rewarding for me. I … Continue reading
The awards committee of the ASA Section on Consumers and Consumption is extremely pleased to announce this that year’s recipient of the section’s Distinguished Scholarly Publication is Erin Metz McDonnell, Kellogg Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Notre Dame. McDonnell’s article, “Budgetary Units: A Weberian Approach to Consumption,” published in American Journal of Sociology, … Continue reading
