Jordi López-Sintas
Biographic Data
| ID | 148086 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jordi López-Sintas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jordi |
| FAMILY NAME | López-Sintas |
| SIGNATURE | LÓPEZ-SINTAS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5441-4039 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Exploring social mechanisms of intergenerational concern in consumer choices: The role of rational and emotional motivations
Purpose This study aims to explore the motivations behind consumer purchasing decisions that account for the well-being of future generations, with a particular focus on how rational and emotional drivers influence intergenerational concern. Design/methodology/approach Grounded in responsible environmental behaviour theory, we conducted a survey of a representative sample of Spanish consumers. The analysis focused on identifying the roles of rati…
The multidimensional nature of pro-environmental attitudes: Social and psychological drivers of organic food consumption
Understanding the drivers of organic food choices requires considering the multidimensional nature of pro-environmental attitudes, including cognitive and affective components, and their translation into purchasing behaviour. Using data from a representative sample of 2,962 Spanish organic consumers, we apply partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) to examine how these dimensions influence behaviour. Results show that the af…
One size does not fit all consumers: How social context shape the behavioral drivers behind organic food purchases
This study investigates the intricate relationship between cognitive sociology and sustainable eating practices, specifically focusing on organic food purchase behaviours. We aim to uncover the complex social drivers influencing these behaviours by bridging social practice theory with sustainable consumption patterns. We extend traditional models that primarily focus on individual drivers of eco-food purchase behaviours by examining how the broad…
Access to digital culture as a driver of social and cultural openness: European evidence
Digital technologies provide people with an excellent opportunity to access cultural expressions from all over the world. Research has shown that while cultural participation is linked to wellbeing and various societal values, it is stratified. Despite evidence of unequal access, digital technology use, and cultural participation, and of a relationship between cultural openness and social openness, no research has addressed the sequential relatio…
Cultural participation beyond the individual: How national socioeconomic and cultural modernization shapes the link between social position and participation
This study explores individual and country-level differences in cultural participation across Europe, using a most-different-systems design and the 2008 debt crisis as a quasi-experimental treatment. We identified distinct patterns of highbrow (six within-country patterns and three between-country clusters) and lowbrow (four patterns and three clusters) cultural participation by analyzing Eurobarometer, European Values Study, and World Bank data …
Heterogenous social mechanisms drive the intention to purchase organic food
Purpose This article explores the heterogenous social mechanisms that drive responsible environmental behaviours by investigating differences in the mean effect of the psychosocial determinants of the intention to buy organic foods. Design/methodology/approach Using data for a representative sample of the Spanish population, we estimated the mean effect of the constructs represented in the responsible environmental behaviour (REB) theory that aff…
Tackling Cyclicity in Causal Models with Cross-Sectional Data Using a Partial Least Squares Approach: Implications for the Sequential Model of Internet Appropriation
Working with SEM and cross-sectional data, and depending on the studied phenomenon, assuming an acyclic model may mean that we obtain only a partial view of the mechanisms that explain causal relationships between a set of theoretical constructs, given that variables are treated as antecedents and consequences. Our two-step approach allows researchers to identify and measure cyclic effects when working with cross-sectional data and a PLS modellin…
Geographical and aesthetic inclusiveness: A new cultural worldview? The case of nine European countries
The European social landscape has changed due to Europeanization, globalization, and migration processes, leading to more transnational exchanges, personal relations connecting people from different European countries, and greater cultural and ethnic diversity. Our research explored whether these processes have led to a new inclusionary cultural worldview and the possible social underpinnings. We analyse the inclusionary cultural worldview on two…
Socially Patterned Strategic Complementarity between Offline Leisure Activities and Internet Practices among Young People
While research exists regarding the internet’s influence on traditional forms of youth leisure, research based on a comprehensive set of leisure indicators is scattered. We explore how a set of young peoples’ in-person leisure activities are complemented by their internet practices, using a canonical correlation framework to estimate the relationship between leisure activities and internet practices. We also measure how internet practices vary de…
The impact of internet use on leisure: Gender and age heterogeneity in young people
Altres ajuts: Grant 870691-INVENT funded by the EU H2020 program
Social TV viewers’ symbolic parasocial interactions with media characters: A topic modelling analysis of viewers’ comments
To identify the involvement outcomes of viewers’ symbolic parasocial interactions with media characters and to measure the impact on series popularity, we capitalized on big data in the form of social TV viewers’ comments, sampled from nine Korean TV series with different popularity levels broadcast through the VIKI streaming website. We report evidence that viewers’ real-time comments express symbolic interactions that form the basis for parasoc…
The social process of internet appropriation: Living in a digitally advanced country benefits less well-educated Europeans
Is pro-environmentalism a privilege? Country development factors as moderators of socio-psychological drivers of pro-environmental behavior
Explaining cross-national differences in individual pro-environmental behaviors is usually grounded in large, heterogeneous data sets. Consequently, research findings may over- or underestimate the effects of environmental variables of interest when analyzing cross-level interactions. This research contextualizes environmental behavior in the European Union, a set of socioeconomically different countries that share a common institutional framewor…
The social structuring of the digital gap in a developing country. The impact of computer and internet access opportunities on internet use in Thailand
The big bang theory of stardom: The social process of sharing emotional experiences associated online TV actors
The new media provide alternative ways for consumers to enjoy TV series and fertile ground for researchers to analyse the stardom process. We analyse the case of Korean actors performing in K-drama productions that are globally made available through online platforms, testing alternative theories on the process of becoming a star. Socially shared emotional experiences among viewers seems to be the launching pad to stardom in a process fuelled by …
Home-based digital leisure
The introduction and domestication of the information and communication technologies –ICT, in the home has transformed leisure activities Now, those technologies have an important role on leisure of households’ members and the transformation in leisure activities and experiences is a necessary issue to explore, because we actually know little about these changes and transformations. Leisure at home has a digital aspect we called here as home-base…
In and out of everyday life through film experiences: An analysis of two social spaces as leisure frames
The new information and communication technologies have made it possible to view films in different spaces. Using the symbolic interactionist framework as a frame of analysis, we interpret the meaning of the two experiences of viewing technology-mediated films in the home and in the cinema. We conducted field research during the first half of 2009, digitally recording 16 interviews with research participants living in Barcelona (Spain). The inter…
The Social Network Gamer's Experience of Play: A Netnography of Restaurant City on Facebook
We address the subjective experience of social network gamers playing Restaurant City, a game hosted on Facebook. We adopted a netnographic approach to studying the culture of transient Internet communities shaping the player off-line communities. Fieldwork was conducted over the entire life span of the game (3 years). Data were analyzed using a qualitative thematic approach and the software EdEt. The results describe the evolution of the gaming …
Young people’s leisure patterns: Testing social age, social gender, and linguistic capital hypotheses
We analysed young people’s leisure activities in order to identify their leisure habitus, discover how they combined activities into leisure patterns, and examine how leisure patterns were socially structured. We argue that the effects of age, gender, and language on how young people’s leisure patterns are structured are mediated by social class. We found that leisure practices could be classified in terms of three habitus: the frequent leisure h…
Social leisure in the digital age
The fact that leisure is a social activity is recognized by individuals in this study as well as by researchers both past and present. However, free-time activities differ in their social dimension. Since digital technologies alter the meaning of leisure activities, they may also affect their social properties. In order to examine, within the constructivist/interpretive paradigm, the social properties of digital leisure activities, the authors an…
The Nature of Leisure Revisited: An Interpretation of Digital Leisure
Information and communication technologies have made it possible to engage in leisure and paid-work activities outside their usual context, thereby challenging the construction of their meanings. We explored 30 individuals' narratives in an endeavour to identify the properties of digital leisure and paid-work activities performed in and out of their usual contexts. Our interpretation suggests that the nature of leisure activities is only associat…
Art museum visitors: Interaction Strategies for Sharing Experiences
Prior research into the museum experience has prioritised the study of the visit itself, opposing the individual experience of visitors who attend alone to the social experience of those who attend accompanied. In this research, however, we study the social dimension of the art museum experience holistically, that is, before, during, and after the visit. We gathered data from 21 in-depth interviews, transcribed verbatim and analysed with the aid …
Music access patterns: A social interpretation
Retos y tendencias del ocio digital: Transformación de dimensiones, experiencias y modelos empresariales
Las tecnologías digitales están transformando el ocio y la manera en la que se organiza. A pesar de su importancia, son escasos los trabajos que han abordado su estudio desde el mundo académico. En este artículo realizamos una revisión extensa de la literatura sobre ocio y tecnologías digitales con el objeto de contribuir al conocimiento elaborando un marco interpretativo del ocio digital. Proponemos que las tecnologías digitales aportan una nuev…
The unforgettable aesthetic experience: The relationship between the originality of artworks and local culture
From exclusive to inclusive elitists and further: Twenty years of omnivorousness and cultural diversity in arts participation in the USA
Deconstructing Cultural Omnivorousness 1982-2002: Heterology in Americans' Musical Preferences
This research examines heterogeneity in Americans' musical tastes by separating breadth and level of taste, taking into account the structural constraints such as cohort, period, social class, gender and racial composition, which have shaped Americans' musical preferences over the past 20 years. We identify four types of respondents who share similar taste patterns that correspond to different degrees of omnivorousness: omnivores, limited, temper…
The Nature of Leisure Revisited: An Interpretation of Digital Leisure
Information and communication technologies have made it possible to engage in leisure and paid-work activities outside their usual context, thereby challenging the construction of their meanings. We explored 30 individuals' narratives in an endeavour to identify the properties of digital leisure and paid-work activities performed in and out of their usual contexts. Our interpretation suggests that the nature of leisure activities is only associat…
Social leisure in the digital age
The fact that leisure is a social activity is recognized by individuals in this study as well as by researchers both past and present. However, free-time activities differ in their social dimension. Since digital technologies alter the meaning of leisure activities, they may also affect their social properties. In order to examine, within the constructivist/interpretive paradigm, the social properties of digital leisure activities, the authors an…
Art museum visitors: Interaction Strategies for Sharing Experiences
Prior research into the museum experience has prioritised the study of the visit itself, opposing the individual experience of visitors who attend alone to the social experience of those who attend accompanied. In this research, however, we study the social dimension of the art museum experience holistically, that is, before, during, and after the visit. We gathered data from 21 in-depth interviews, transcribed verbatim and analysed with the aid …
The impact of internet use on leisure: Gender and age heterogeneity in young people
Altres ajuts: Grant 870691-INVENT funded by the EU H2020 program
Is pro-environmentalism a privilege? Country development factors as moderators of socio-psychological drivers of pro-environmental behavior
Explaining cross-national differences in individual pro-environmental behaviors is usually grounded in large, heterogeneous data sets. Consequently, research findings may over- or underestimate the effects of environmental variables of interest when analyzing cross-level interactions. This research contextualizes environmental behavior in the European Union, a set of socioeconomically different countries that share a common institutional framewor…
Home-based digital leisure
The introduction and domestication of the information and communication technologies –ICT, in the home has transformed leisure activities Now, those technologies have an important role on leisure of households’ members and the transformation in leisure activities and experiences is a necessary issue to explore, because we actually know little about these changes and transformations. Leisure at home has a digital aspect we called here as home-base…
Patterns of Audio-Visual Consumption: The Reflection of Objective Divisions in Class Structure
The heterogeneous behaviour of Spanish audio-visual audiences could be encapsulated into five classes: (1) television fans, (2) occasional film-goers, (3) light film-goers, (4) film fans, and (5) audio-visual fans. When the five clusters of audio-visual consumers were analysed according to a set of sociocultural indicators, they appeared ordered as listed above, from downscale to upscale audiences, giving support to Bourdieu’s homology thesis. Ac…
In and out of everyday life through film experiences: An analysis of two social spaces as leisure frames
The new information and communication technologies have made it possible to view films in different spaces. Using the symbolic interactionist framework as a frame of analysis, we interpret the meaning of the two experiences of viewing technology-mediated films in the home and in the cinema. We conducted field research during the first half of 2009, digitally recording 16 interviews with research participants living in Barcelona (Spain). The inter…
Socially Patterned Strategic Complementarity between Offline Leisure Activities and Internet Practices among Young People
While research exists regarding the internet’s influence on traditional forms of youth leisure, research based on a comprehensive set of leisure indicators is scattered. We explore how a set of young peoples’ in-person leisure activities are complemented by their internet practices, using a canonical correlation framework to estimate the relationship between leisure activities and internet practices. We also measure how internet practices vary de…
The unforgettable aesthetic experience: The relationship between the originality of artworks and local culture
A Social Theory of Internet Uses Based on Consumption Scale and Linkage Needs
The authors analyze the understudied relationship between social class and Internet-in-practice in the Spanish social space in order to develop a social theory of Internet use based on the concepts of scale of consumption, technological, social, and information linkage needs of individuals, and Bourdieu’s suggested homology between the social and consumption spaces. The authors test their theory with interdependence methods of analysis, which are…
The social structuring of the digital gap in a developing country. The impact of computer and internet access opportunities on internet use in Thailand
Young people’s leisure patterns: Testing social age, social gender, and linguistic capital hypotheses
We analysed young people’s leisure activities in order to identify their leisure habitus, discover how they combined activities into leisure patterns, and examine how leisure patterns were socially structured. We argue that the effects of age, gender, and language on how young people’s leisure patterns are structured are mediated by social class. We found that leisure practices could be classified in terms of three habitus: the frequent leisure h…
Contingency Table: A Two-Way Bridge between Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
Combining qualitative and quantitative research methods in the same project allowed the authors to gain more in-depth knowledge as well as to achieve sharper data reduction and verification than would have been possible using only one approach. Qualitative data were obtained from in-depth interviews with thirteen founders of leading family businesses and published secondary data. The authors used qualitative computer software to codify founders' …
The Social Network Gamer's Experience of Play: A Netnography of Restaurant City on Facebook
We address the subjective experience of social network gamers playing Restaurant City, a game hosted on Facebook. We adopted a netnographic approach to studying the culture of transient Internet communities shaping the player off-line communities. Fieldwork was conducted over the entire life span of the game (3 years). Data were analyzed using a qualitative thematic approach and the software EdEt. The results describe the evolution of the gaming …
Music access patterns: A social interpretation
Accessing recorded music: Interpreting a contemporary social exchange system
Grounded in how individuals access recorded music, we have developed a comprehensive description that classifies social exchanges aimed at accessing cultural resources and that also clarifies the forces that shape individual choices regarding particular social exchanges. We also highlight the exchange properties that socially integrate and classify individuals in a social context. Our analysis integrates, but also demonstrates as misleading, rece…
Scale and Periodicities of Recorded Music Consumption: Reconciling Bourdieu's Theory of Taste with Facts
Recent data show that middle class consumers have an omnivorous pattern of consumption or tastes, contrary to Bourdieu's predictions of a snob pattern of consumption. To explore the implications of Bourdieu's framework for omnivorousness further, we make use of the anthropological view of consumption to analyse Spaniards' musical tastes and consumption. Results showed a variety of omnivorous patterns of musical consumption associated with upscale…
The Innovative Behavior of Spanish Enterprises and Its Impact on Salaries
Contingency Table: A Two-Way Bridge between Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
Combining qualitative and quantitative research methods in the same project allowed the authors to gain more in-depth knowledge as well as to achieve sharper data reduction and verification than would have been possible using only one approach. Qualitative data were obtained from in-depth interviews with thirteen founders of leading family businesses and published secondary data. The authors used qualitative computer software to codify founders' …
Omnivore versus univore consumption and its symbolic properties: Evidence from Spaniards’ performing arts attendance
From exclusive to inclusive elitists and further: Twenty years of omnivorousness and cultural diversity in arts participation in the USA
Patterns of Audio-Visual Consumption: The Reflection of Objective Divisions in Class Structure
The heterogeneous behaviour of Spanish audio-visual audiences could be encapsulated into five classes: (1) television fans, (2) occasional film-goers, (3) light film-goers, (4) film fans, and (5) audio-visual fans. When the five clusters of audio-visual consumers were analysed according to a set of sociocultural indicators, they appeared ordered as listed above, from downscale to upscale audiences, giving support to Bourdieu’s homology thesis. Ac…
Deconstructing Cultural Omnivorousness 1982-2002: Heterology in Americans' Musical Preferences
This research examines heterogeneity in Americans' musical tastes by separating breadth and level of taste, taking into account the structural constraints such as cohort, period, social class, gender and racial composition, which have shaped Americans' musical preferences over the past 20 years. We identify four types of respondents who share similar taste patterns that correspond to different degrees of omnivorousness: omnivores, limited, temper…
Scale and Periodicities of Recorded Music Consumption: Reconciling Bourdieu's Theory of Taste with Facts
Recent data show that middle class consumers have an omnivorous pattern of consumption or tastes, contrary to Bourdieu's predictions of a snob pattern of consumption. To explore the implications of Bourdieu's framework for omnivorousness further, we make use of the anthropological view of consumption to analyse Spaniards' musical tastes and consumption. Results showed a variety of omnivorous patterns of musical consumption associated with upscale…
A contextual theory of accessing music: Consumer behavior and ethical arguments
Previous research into the ethics of accessing information goods using alternative means (the informal economy or social exchanges) has failed to study the moral arguments used by music consumers to justify their behavior or explain actions they considered to be (un)ethical. To fill this gap, we conducted a study from the perspective of music consumers in which we grounded a theory that would explain and predict individual arguments and behavior.…
A Social Theory of Internet Uses Based on Consumption Scale and Linkage Needs
The authors analyze the understudied relationship between social class and Internet-in-practice in the Spanish social space in order to develop a social theory of Internet use based on the concepts of scale of consumption, technological, social, and information linkage needs of individuals, and Bourdieu’s suggested homology between the social and consumption spaces. The authors test their theory with interdependence methods of analysis, which are…
Retos y tendencias del ocio digital: Transformación de dimensiones, experiencias y modelos empresariales
Las tecnologías digitales están transformando el ocio y la manera en la que se organiza. A pesar de su importancia, son escasos los trabajos que han abordado su estudio desde el mundo académico. En este artículo realizamos una revisión extensa de la literatura sobre ocio y tecnologías digitales con el objeto de contribuir al conocimiento elaborando un marco interpretativo del ocio digital. Proponemos que las tecnologías digitales aportan una nuev…
The unforgettable aesthetic experience: The relationship between the originality of artworks and local culture
Accessing recorded music: Interpreting a contemporary social exchange system
Grounded in how individuals access recorded music, we have developed a comprehensive description that classifies social exchanges aimed at accessing cultural resources and that also clarifies the forces that shape individual choices regarding particular social exchanges. We also highlight the exchange properties that socially integrate and classify individuals in a social context. Our analysis integrates, but also demonstrates as misleading, rece…
Art museum visitors: Interaction Strategies for Sharing Experiences
Prior research into the museum experience has prioritised the study of the visit itself, opposing the individual experience of visitors who attend alone to the social experience of those who attend accompanied. In this research, however, we study the social dimension of the art museum experience holistically, that is, before, during, and after the visit. We gathered data from 21 in-depth interviews, transcribed verbatim and analysed with the aid …
Music access patterns: A social interpretation
The Nature of Leisure Revisited: An Interpretation of Digital Leisure
Information and communication technologies have made it possible to engage in leisure and paid-work activities outside their usual context, thereby challenging the construction of their meanings. We explored 30 individuals' narratives in an endeavour to identify the properties of digital leisure and paid-work activities performed in and out of their usual contexts. Our interpretation suggests that the nature of leisure activities is only associat…
Young people’s leisure patterns: Testing social age, social gender, and linguistic capital hypotheses
We analysed young people’s leisure activities in order to identify their leisure habitus, discover how they combined activities into leisure patterns, and examine how leisure patterns were socially structured. We argue that the effects of age, gender, and language on how young people’s leisure patterns are structured are mediated by social class. We found that leisure practices could be classified in terms of three habitus: the frequent leisure h…
Social leisure in the digital age
The fact that leisure is a social activity is recognized by individuals in this study as well as by researchers both past and present. However, free-time activities differ in their social dimension. Since digital technologies alter the meaning of leisure activities, they may also affect their social properties. In order to examine, within the constructivist/interpretive paradigm, the social properties of digital leisure activities, the authors an…
Home-based digital leisure
The introduction and domestication of the information and communication technologies –ICT, in the home has transformed leisure activities Now, those technologies have an important role on leisure of households’ members and the transformation in leisure activities and experiences is a necessary issue to explore, because we actually know little about these changes and transformations. Leisure at home has a digital aspect we called here as home-base…
In and out of everyday life through film experiences: An analysis of two social spaces as leisure frames
The new information and communication technologies have made it possible to view films in different spaces. Using the symbolic interactionist framework as a frame of analysis, we interpret the meaning of the two experiences of viewing technology-mediated films in the home and in the cinema. We conducted field research during the first half of 2009, digitally recording 16 interviews with research participants living in Barcelona (Spain). The inter…
The Social Network Gamer's Experience of Play: A Netnography of Restaurant City on Facebook
We address the subjective experience of social network gamers playing Restaurant City, a game hosted on Facebook. We adopted a netnographic approach to studying the culture of transient Internet communities shaping the player off-line communities. Fieldwork was conducted over the entire life span of the game (3 years). Data were analyzed using a qualitative thematic approach and the software EdEt. The results describe the evolution of the gaming …
The big bang theory of stardom: The social process of sharing emotional experiences associated online TV actors
The new media provide alternative ways for consumers to enjoy TV series and fertile ground for researchers to analyse the stardom process. We analyse the case of Korean actors performing in K-drama productions that are globally made available through online platforms, testing alternative theories on the process of becoming a star. Socially shared emotional experiences among viewers seems to be the launching pad to stardom in a process fuelled by …
The social structuring of the digital gap in a developing country. The impact of computer and internet access opportunities on internet use in Thailand
Social TV viewers’ symbolic parasocial interactions with media characters: A topic modelling analysis of viewers’ comments
To identify the involvement outcomes of viewers’ symbolic parasocial interactions with media characters and to measure the impact on series popularity, we capitalized on big data in the form of social TV viewers’ comments, sampled from nine Korean TV series with different popularity levels broadcast through the VIKI streaming website. We report evidence that viewers’ real-time comments express symbolic interactions that form the basis for parasoc…
The social process of internet appropriation: Living in a digitally advanced country benefits less well-educated Europeans
Is pro-environmentalism a privilege? Country development factors as moderators of socio-psychological drivers of pro-environmental behavior
Explaining cross-national differences in individual pro-environmental behaviors is usually grounded in large, heterogeneous data sets. Consequently, research findings may over- or underestimate the effects of environmental variables of interest when analyzing cross-level interactions. This research contextualizes environmental behavior in the European Union, a set of socioeconomically different countries that share a common institutional framewor…
Sociology (27 works) · Psychology (25 works) · Computer Science (19 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Social science (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Art (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (10 works) · Economics (9 works)