Home Sweet Messy Home
Managing Symbolic Pollution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2223931 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Delphine Dion (0000-0002-9981-3946), Ouidade Sabri (0000-0002-7298-1173, Institut Superieur de Gestion), Valérie Guillard (0000-0003-3243-8384, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 565-589 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Consumer Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-5301 • E-ISSN: 1537-5277 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/676922 |
| OpenAlex | W1524089034 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 85 |
Hanging up our coat, tidying our desk, classifying our books, what meanings do these mundane practices convey? Extending Mary Douglas's work, this article investigates tidiness from the angle of symbolic pollution. Based on photo-elicitation, it shows that, similarly to symbolic pollution described at a macro-social level, tidiness depends on two conditions, namely, a set of classifications and the dangerous transgression of these classifications. However, at a micro-social level, individuals negotiate boundaries between classifications in order to cope with symbolic pollution. Consumers define their domestic classifications through a juxtaposition of micro-practices, which does not necessarily create a hierarchically ordered system but which enables these consumers to avoid anomalies and transgressions. Furthermore, respondents are willing to break tidiness rules on specific occasions because the danger-beliefs associated with transgression are context-dependent. This analysis of tidiness gives new insights into materiality, emphasizing the cultural meaning of ordering one's possessions
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology) · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Materiality (auditing) · Meaning (existential) · Negotiation · Social science · Sociology · The Symbolic · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · Health, Medicine and Society · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Psychology
Conceptualizing spatial types
Home and psychological well‐being in global consumer mobility
Motives Towards Consumer‐to‐Consumer Online Marketplaces
Fortalecendo os laços
Everything in place
The aestheticization of restraint
Digital housekeeping
Lingering on things
For the Love of the Game
Fearful Intimacies
Housing risk factors’ effects on home conceptualizations
How much of too much? What inspections data say about residential clutter as a housing problem
Managing the retention or divestment of material possessions in the transition to retirement
How the Materials of Objects Shape Consumption
Consumer Dirtwork
The Discomfort of Things! Tidying-up and Decluttering in Consumers’ Homes
Moralizing Everyday Consumption
The Dolphins
Holding on to childhood things
The Moral Economy of Thrift
Routines Disrupted
Selling Pain to the Saturated Self
Using Cultural Repertoires during Unsettled Times
Dysplacement and the Professionalization of the Home
Consumer culture poetry
Understanding the process of the disposition of a loved one's possessions using a theoretical framework of grief
Mess
Studying Visual Communication
The Translator's Invisibility
Converging Conventions of Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience
Towards an epistemology of consumer culture theory
Four ways five factors are basic
The cultural biography of things
Market-Oriented Ethnography
Visual Consumption
Postmodern Consumer Research
Des hommes et du masculin
Outsiders
When the Social Self Is Threatened
Photo‐elicitation and the agricultural landscape
Pour une géographie de la saleté
Understanding Home
Space for Play
Under the Kitchen Surface
Representation across languages
Putting Matter in its Right Place
Calendars and keys
A Little Dirt Never Hurt Anyone
Rituals, Symbols, and Society-Explicating the Mechanisms of the Moral Order Purity and Danger. Mary Douglas Natural Symbols
Storage and Clutter
Of tidy gardens and clean houses
What's in a word? Problematizing translation between languages
Materiality and the comfort of things
Cleanness, Pollution and Disgust in Modern Industrial Societies
Dealing with Dirt and the Disorder of Development
A room with a cue
La bibliothèque idéale des sciences humaines
Les classifications en actions. De la sociologie durkheimienne des classifications aux hiérarchies des vins de Bordeaux
Secondhandedness
Accommodating Open Plan
Cherished Classifications
The Ghosts of Industrial Ruins
Making sense of one other for another
Ethnography as Translation
Seul et avec l'autre
Mary Douglas (1921-2007)
Culture and Consumption
We Gather Together
The Sacred and the Profane in Consumer Behavior
Autodriving
Pourquoi les animaux parfaits, les hybrides et les monstres sont-ils bons à penser symboliquement
A Papuan Perspective on Pollution
Drugs and Symbolic Pollution
Sociality with Objects
Dismantling Mantelpieces
Extended Self in a Digital World
Taste Regimes and Market-Mediated Practice
Access-Based Consumption
Liquid Relationship to Possessions
The Beauty of Boundaries
Family Identity
Extended Self and Possessions in the Workplace
Consumer Culture Theory (CCT)
A Theory of Structure
Embodied ethnicity
Personal interviews in cultural consumer research - post-structuralist challenges
Dirty Little Secret
The Epistemic Consumption Object and Postsocial Consumption
The Unbearable Lightness of Cleaning
Advertising Modernity
Looking Like a Culture
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,7 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |