Douglas B Holt
Biographic Data
| ID | 118251 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas B Holt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas B |
| FAMILY NAME | Holt |
| SIGNATURE | HOLT D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1019 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Whiskey: Marketplace Icon
Brands are potent and efficient vehicles to diffuse and reproduce ideologies. This article revisits over a decade of research on Jack Daniel’s as an iconic brand, and provides a behind the scenes look at the process of researching cultural brands. It describes whiskey as a marketplace icon that reflects particular cultural ideologies, and updates the Jack Daniel’s story in the context of the craft liquor movement. Iconic brands, cultural icons, a…
Designing the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) as a service: Prioritising patients over administrative logic
Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) vaccination rates remain well below herd immunity in regions of many countries despite huge international resources devoted to both financing and access. We draw upon service marketing theory, organisational sociology, development anthropology and cultural consumer research to conduct an ethnographic study of vaccination delivery in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia - one such region. We find that Western public health…
Constructing Sustainable Consumption: From Ethical Values to the Cultural Transformation of Unsustainable Markets
Twenty years of major policy and activist interventions that seek to promote sustainable consumption have been guided by what I term the ethical values paradigm, despite that this paradigm has significant conceptual flaws and has not produced impressive results. This article critiques the ethical values paradigm and proposes an alternative by adapting the market constructionist paradigm. The author analyzes the development of the American market …
The Consumer Society Reader
Consumer Society Reader
Toward a Theory of Status Consumption in Less Industrialized Countries
How does status consumption operate among the middle classes in less industrialized countries (LICs)-those classes that have the spending power to participate effectively in consumer culture? Globalization research suggests that Bourdieu's status consumption model, based upon Western research, does not provide an adequate explanation. And what we call the global trickle-down model, often invoked to explain LIC status consumption, is even more imp…
Distinction
Distinction references the social consequences of expressions of taste. When people consume – whether it be popular culture, leisure, fine arts, the home, vacations, or fashion – these actions, among other things, act to express tastes. And tastes are not innocuous. Rather, what and how people consume can act as a social reproduction mechanism. So expressions of taste are acts of distinction to the extent that they signal, and help to reproduce, …
Dominated Consumer Acculturation: The Social Construction of Poor Migrant Women's Consumer Identity Projects in a Turkish Squatter
We conduct an ethnographic case study of poor migrant women living in a Turkish squatter to explore how consumer acculturation operates in this important context. Poor migrants have no choice but to engage Turkish consumer culture because it is hegemonic and it conflicts ideologically with their village culture, and they do so with few resources. Our dominated consumer acculturation model specifies three modes of acculturation structured by this …
Toward a sociology of branding
Jack Daniel's America: Iconic brands as ideological parasites and proselytizers
Branding is often viewed as a form of ideological influence, but how brands impact ideology has not been carefully specified. I use a genealogical study of the emergence of Jack Daniel's whiskey as an iconic brand to specify the ideological role played by such brands in relation to other producers of ideological change, particularly the other culture industries. I demonstrate that brands play a distinctive role, quite different from that critics …
An Interview with Juliet Schor
How Do Men Grab the Phallus: Gender tourism in everyday consumption
A number of influential gender theorists contend that men suffer from a pandemic crisis of masculinity in their work and family roles that they seek to assuage through the compensatory consumption of phallic symbols. We critique this conventional view through a cultural analysis of the consumption practices of a group of men who fit the stuck-in-the-middle socio-economic profile commonly associated with the crisis of masculinity. We first discuss…
Man-of-Action Heroes: The Pursuit of Heroic Masculinity in Everyday Consumption: Figure 1
We develop a model describing how certain American men, those men who have been described as emasculated by recent socioeconomic changes, construct themselves as masculine through their everyday consumption. We find that American mass culture idealizes the man-of-action hero—an idealized model of manhood that resolves the inherent weaknesses in two other prominent models (the breadwinner and the rebel). The men we studied drew from this three-par…
Why Do Brands Cause Trouble? A Dialectical Theory of Consumer Culture and Branding
Brands are today under attack by an emerging countercultural movement. This study builds a dialectical theory of consumer culture and branding that explains the rise of this movement and its potential effects. Results of an interpretive study challenge existing theories of consumer resistance. To develop an alternative model, I first trace the rise of the modern cultural engineering paradigm of branding, premised upon a consumer culture that gran…
Does Cultural Capital Structure American Consumption
Journal Article Does Cultural Capital Structure American Consumption? Get access Douglas B. Holt Douglas B. Holt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 25, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 1–25, https://doi.org/10.1086/209523 Published: 01 June 1998 Article history Received: 01 December 1995 Revision received: 01 June 1997 Published: 01 June 1998
Consumption and Identity at Work
Distinction in America? Recovering Bourdieu's theory of tastes from its critics
Poststructuralist Lifestyle Analysis: Conceptualizing the Social Patterning of Consumption in Postmodernity
Journal Article Poststructuralist Lifestyle Analysis: Conceptualizing the Social Patterning of Consumption in Postmodernity Get access Douglas B. Holt Douglas B. Holt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 23, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 326–350, https://doi.org/10.1086/209487 Published: 01 March 1997 Article history Received: 01 December 1994 Revision received: 01 Octob…
How Consumers Consume: A Typology of Consumption Practices
This article examines what people do when they consume. In recent interpretive consumer research, three research streams have emerged, each portraying how people consume through a distinctive metaphor: consuming as experience, consuming as integration, and consuming as classification. The research reported here - a two-year observational case study of baseball spectators in Chicago's Wrigley Field bleachers - builds on this literature to systemat…
Does Cultural Capital Structure American Consumption
Journal Article Does Cultural Capital Structure American Consumption? Get access Douglas B. Holt Douglas B. Holt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 25, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 1–25, https://doi.org/10.1086/209523 Published: 01 June 1998 Article history Received: 01 December 1995 Revision received: 01 June 1997 Published: 01 June 1998
Why Do Brands Cause Trouble? A Dialectical Theory of Consumer Culture and Branding
Brands are today under attack by an emerging countercultural movement. This study builds a dialectical theory of consumer culture and branding that explains the rise of this movement and its potential effects. Results of an interpretive study challenge existing theories of consumer resistance. To develop an alternative model, I first trace the rise of the modern cultural engineering paradigm of branding, premised upon a consumer culture that gran…
Poststructuralist Lifestyle Analysis: Conceptualizing the Social Patterning of Consumption in Postmodernity
Journal Article Poststructuralist Lifestyle Analysis: Conceptualizing the Social Patterning of Consumption in Postmodernity Get access Douglas B. Holt Douglas B. Holt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 23, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 326–350, https://doi.org/10.1086/209487 Published: 01 March 1997 Article history Received: 01 December 1994 Revision received: 01 Octob…
How Consumers Consume: A Typology of Consumption Practices
This article examines what people do when they consume. In recent interpretive consumer research, three research streams have emerged, each portraying how people consume through a distinctive metaphor: consuming as experience, consuming as integration, and consuming as classification. The research reported here - a two-year observational case study of baseball spectators in Chicago's Wrigley Field bleachers - builds on this literature to systemat…
Distinction in America? Recovering Bourdieu's theory of tastes from its critics
Man-of-Action Heroes: The Pursuit of Heroic Masculinity in Everyday Consumption: Figure 1
We develop a model describing how certain American men, those men who have been described as emasculated by recent socioeconomic changes, construct themselves as masculine through their everyday consumption. We find that American mass culture idealizes the man-of-action hero—an idealized model of manhood that resolves the inherent weaknesses in two other prominent models (the breadwinner and the rebel). The men we studied drew from this three-par…
Dominated Consumer Acculturation: The Social Construction of Poor Migrant Women's Consumer Identity Projects in a Turkish Squatter
We conduct an ethnographic case study of poor migrant women living in a Turkish squatter to explore how consumer acculturation operates in this important context. Poor migrants have no choice but to engage Turkish consumer culture because it is hegemonic and it conflicts ideologically with their village culture, and they do so with few resources. Our dominated consumer acculturation model specifies three modes of acculturation structured by this …
Toward a Theory of Status Consumption in Less Industrialized Countries
How does status consumption operate among the middle classes in less industrialized countries (LICs)-those classes that have the spending power to participate effectively in consumer culture? Globalization research suggests that Bourdieu's status consumption model, based upon Western research, does not provide an adequate explanation. And what we call the global trickle-down model, often invoked to explain LIC status consumption, is even more imp…
Jack Daniel's America: Iconic brands as ideological parasites and proselytizers
Branding is often viewed as a form of ideological influence, but how brands impact ideology has not been carefully specified. I use a genealogical study of the emergence of Jack Daniel's whiskey as an iconic brand to specify the ideological role played by such brands in relation to other producers of ideological change, particularly the other culture industries. I demonstrate that brands play a distinctive role, quite different from that critics …
Constructing Sustainable Consumption: From Ethical Values to the Cultural Transformation of Unsustainable Markets
Twenty years of major policy and activist interventions that seek to promote sustainable consumption have been guided by what I term the ethical values paradigm, despite that this paradigm has significant conceptual flaws and has not produced impressive results. This article critiques the ethical values paradigm and proposes an alternative by adapting the market constructionist paradigm. The author analyzes the development of the American market …
Toward a sociology of branding
How Do Men Grab the Phallus: Gender tourism in everyday consumption
A number of influential gender theorists contend that men suffer from a pandemic crisis of masculinity in their work and family roles that they seek to assuage through the compensatory consumption of phallic symbols. We critique this conventional view through a cultural analysis of the consumption practices of a group of men who fit the stuck-in-the-middle socio-economic profile commonly associated with the crisis of masculinity. We first discuss…
Whiskey: Marketplace Icon
Brands are potent and efficient vehicles to diffuse and reproduce ideologies. This article revisits over a decade of research on Jack Daniel’s as an iconic brand, and provides a behind the scenes look at the process of researching cultural brands. It describes whiskey as a marketplace icon that reflects particular cultural ideologies, and updates the Jack Daniel’s story in the context of the craft liquor movement. Iconic brands, cultural icons, a…
An Interview with Juliet Schor
How Consumers Consume: A Typology of Consumption Practices
This article examines what people do when they consume. In recent interpretive consumer research, three research streams have emerged, each portraying how people consume through a distinctive metaphor: consuming as experience, consuming as integration, and consuming as classification. The research reported here - a two-year observational case study of baseball spectators in Chicago's Wrigley Field bleachers - builds on this literature to systemat…
Consumption and Identity at Work
Distinction in America? Recovering Bourdieu's theory of tastes from its critics
Poststructuralist Lifestyle Analysis: Conceptualizing the Social Patterning of Consumption in Postmodernity
Journal Article Poststructuralist Lifestyle Analysis: Conceptualizing the Social Patterning of Consumption in Postmodernity Get access Douglas B. Holt Douglas B. Holt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 23, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 326–350, https://doi.org/10.1086/209487 Published: 01 March 1997 Article history Received: 01 December 1994 Revision received: 01 Octob…
Does Cultural Capital Structure American Consumption
Journal Article Does Cultural Capital Structure American Consumption? Get access Douglas B. Holt Douglas B. Holt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 25, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 1–25, https://doi.org/10.1086/209523 Published: 01 June 1998 Article history Received: 01 December 1995 Revision received: 01 June 1997 Published: 01 June 1998
Why Do Brands Cause Trouble? A Dialectical Theory of Consumer Culture and Branding
Brands are today under attack by an emerging countercultural movement. This study builds a dialectical theory of consumer culture and branding that explains the rise of this movement and its potential effects. Results of an interpretive study challenge existing theories of consumer resistance. To develop an alternative model, I first trace the rise of the modern cultural engineering paradigm of branding, premised upon a consumer culture that gran…
How Do Men Grab the Phallus: Gender tourism in everyday consumption
A number of influential gender theorists contend that men suffer from a pandemic crisis of masculinity in their work and family roles that they seek to assuage through the compensatory consumption of phallic symbols. We critique this conventional view through a cultural analysis of the consumption practices of a group of men who fit the stuck-in-the-middle socio-economic profile commonly associated with the crisis of masculinity. We first discuss…
Man-of-Action Heroes: The Pursuit of Heroic Masculinity in Everyday Consumption: Figure 1
We develop a model describing how certain American men, those men who have been described as emasculated by recent socioeconomic changes, construct themselves as masculine through their everyday consumption. We find that American mass culture idealizes the man-of-action hero—an idealized model of manhood that resolves the inherent weaknesses in two other prominent models (the breadwinner and the rebel). The men we studied drew from this three-par…
An Interview with Juliet Schor
Toward a sociology of branding
Jack Daniel's America: Iconic brands as ideological parasites and proselytizers
Branding is often viewed as a form of ideological influence, but how brands impact ideology has not been carefully specified. I use a genealogical study of the emergence of Jack Daniel's whiskey as an iconic brand to specify the ideological role played by such brands in relation to other producers of ideological change, particularly the other culture industries. I demonstrate that brands play a distinctive role, quite different from that critics …
Distinction
Distinction references the social consequences of expressions of taste. When people consume – whether it be popular culture, leisure, fine arts, the home, vacations, or fashion – these actions, among other things, act to express tastes. And tastes are not innocuous. Rather, what and how people consume can act as a social reproduction mechanism. So expressions of taste are acts of distinction to the extent that they signal, and help to reproduce, …
Dominated Consumer Acculturation: The Social Construction of Poor Migrant Women's Consumer Identity Projects in a Turkish Squatter
We conduct an ethnographic case study of poor migrant women living in a Turkish squatter to explore how consumer acculturation operates in this important context. Poor migrants have no choice but to engage Turkish consumer culture because it is hegemonic and it conflicts ideologically with their village culture, and they do so with few resources. Our dominated consumer acculturation model specifies three modes of acculturation structured by this …
Toward a Theory of Status Consumption in Less Industrialized Countries
How does status consumption operate among the middle classes in less industrialized countries (LICs)-those classes that have the spending power to participate effectively in consumer culture? Globalization research suggests that Bourdieu's status consumption model, based upon Western research, does not provide an adequate explanation. And what we call the global trickle-down model, often invoked to explain LIC status consumption, is even more imp…
The Consumer Society Reader
Consumer Society Reader
Constructing Sustainable Consumption: From Ethical Values to the Cultural Transformation of Unsustainable Markets
Twenty years of major policy and activist interventions that seek to promote sustainable consumption have been guided by what I term the ethical values paradigm, despite that this paradigm has significant conceptual flaws and has not produced impressive results. This article critiques the ethical values paradigm and proposes an alternative by adapting the market constructionist paradigm. The author analyzes the development of the American market …
Designing the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) as a service: Prioritising patients over administrative logic
Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) vaccination rates remain well below herd immunity in regions of many countries despite huge international resources devoted to both financing and access. We draw upon service marketing theory, organisational sociology, development anthropology and cultural consumer research to conduct an ethnographic study of vaccination delivery in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia - one such region. We find that Western public health…
Whiskey: Marketplace Icon
Brands are potent and efficient vehicles to diffuse and reproduce ideologies. This article revisits over a decade of research on Jack Daniel’s as an iconic brand, and provides a behind the scenes look at the process of researching cultural brands. It describes whiskey as a marketplace icon that reflects particular cultural ideologies, and updates the Jack Daniel’s story in the context of the craft liquor movement. Iconic brands, cultural icons, a…
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