200 Consumer culture and social issues

Thursday, August 2, 2012: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
NB 450 (Faculty of Economics)

RC14 Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture (host committee)

Language: English
Session Organizers:
Jeffrey HALLEY, The University of Texas San Antonio, USA , Oksana LYCHKOVSKA, Odessa National Mechnikov University, Ukraine and Isleide FONTENELLE, Odessa National Mechnikov University, Ukraine
Chair:
Indhu RAJAGOPAL, York University, Canada, Canada
For a genealogy of responsibility in consumption (Oral Presentation)
Isleide FONTENELLE, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil

Gender equality in the safety culture (Oral Presentation)
Ryoichi HORIGUCHI, Kinki University, Japan

Global consumption culture: Global brandsx influence in social practices (Oral Presentation)
Viviane RIEGEL, ESPM/SP, Brazil

Moral-aesthetic regulation and class formation: The case of “chavs” in the UK (Oral Presentation)
Elias LE GRAND, Swedish School of Textiles, Sweden