Routines Disrupted

Reestablishing Security through Practice Alignment

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2237460
AutoresMarcus Phipps (0000-0002-6754-7364, The University of Melbourne, autor de correspondencia), Julie L Ozanne (0000-0002-5826-8259, The University of Melbourne)
EditoresEileen Fischer (0000-0002-8212-0414), Craig Thompson (0000-0002-0912-0362)
Año2017
Volumen44
Número2
Páginas361-380
Fecha de publicación2017-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Consumer Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0093-5301 • E-ISSN: 1537-5277
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/jcr/ucx040
OpenAlexW2598139313
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas48
Referencias citadas47

Routines are the taken-for-granted practices that form the rhythm of everyday life, making people feel secure. How do consumers manage when their routines are disrupted? Practice theorists assert that practices are important to understanding consumption and stress their shared, repetitive, and conventional nature. When practices are stable, they are performed effortlessly, producing feelings of ease and trust in a predictable world. People are often unaware of the embodied competencies, or practical understandings, involved in the performance of these practices. However, practical understandings become apparent when elements of practices are misaligned. Our findings advance Giddens’s (1984) theorization of ontological security by showing how the interplay between practical and discursive understandings and material configurations works to produce different ontological states that we call embedded security, embedded insecurity, discursive insecurity, acclimating security, and new embedded security. We also show how households subtly rework the underlying constitutive rules that anchor important practices in place within practice alignment.

Best practice · Consumption (sociology) · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Feeling · Knowledge management · Ontological security · Political science · Public relations · Rework · Social science · Sociology · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies · Computer Science · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Law · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology