Smoke gets in your eyes
What Is Sociological About Cigarettes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3430751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donncha Marron (0000-0003-3093-4851, Abertay University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 882-897 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-954x.12404 |
| OpenAlex | W2507241533 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 79 |
Contemporary public health approaches increasingly draw attention to the unequal social distribution of cigarette smoking. In contrast, critical accounts emphasize the importance of smokers' situated agency, the relevance of embodiment and how public health measures against smoking potentially play upon and exacerbate social divisions and inequality. Nevertheless, if the social context of cigarettes is worthy of such attention, and sociology lays a distinct claim to understanding the social, we need to articulate a distinct, positive and systematic claim for smoking as an object of sociological enquiry. This article attempts to address this by situating smoking across three main dimensions of sociological thinking: history and social change; individual agency and experience; and social structures and power. It locates the emergence and development of cigarettes in everyday life within the project of modernity of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It goes on to assess the habituated, temporal and experiential aspects of individual smoking practices in everyday lifeworlds. Finally, it argues that smoking, while distributed in important ways by social class, also works relationally to render and inscribe it
Agency (philosophy) · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Everyday life · Late modernity · Medical sociology · Modernity · Power (physics) · Public health · Situated · Social science · Sociological imagination · Sociological theory · Sociology · Structure and agency · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Motivations for use, identity and the vaper subculture
Adolescent Smoking in Secondary Schools that Have Implemented Smoke-Free Policies
The “sneaky vape”
Is the perceived public stigma of smokers associated with value opposites? An exploratory cross-sectional analysis of Norwegian data 2011–2013
Fashioning Smoking Space
It May Be Unhealthy but It’s Really Cool
What is a public health approach to substance use? A qualitative systematic review and thematic synthesis
Fables of abundance
Governing morals
The Culture of consumption
Ulysses and the Sirens
Tobacco in history
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
The Imperative of Health
The social context of smoking
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Distinction
Researching smoking in the new smokefree
Distinction
Freedom to Smoke
Consumer Culture and Postmodernism
Risk and Culture
Researching smoking in the new Smokefree
Sociological Imagination
“It’s like an addiction first thing… afterwards it's like a habit”
Risking enchantment’
Challenging the imperative of health? Smoking and justifications of risk-taking
Tobacco control and the inequitable socio-economic distribution of smoking
Theories of practice and public health
Deconstructing behavioural classifications
Drugs’ pleasures
Smoking causes creative responses
Poverty as a smoking trap
Whither Tobacco Studies
It is just not part of the culture here”
It's as if you’re locked in”
The working-class context of pregnancy smoking
Learning to Smoke
Born to buy
The Sociological Imagination
They Don't Live in My House Every Day”
After the Smoke Has Cleared
Tobacco Control, Stigma, and Public Health
Socioeconomic Distinction, Cultural Tastes, and Cigarette Smoking
Interactions Between Smokers and Non-Smokers in Public Places
Moralising geographies
Smell in the City
The Sociology of Georg Simmel
Towards an Affective Smoking Geography
Struggles for value
Habit and Habituation
Explaining the social gradient in smoking in pregnancy
Passive smoking and its pre-history in Britain
Habit
When life's a drag
Lifecourse influences on women's smoking before, during and after pregnancy
Smoking and workers' autonomy
Habit and Habitus
How Civilizing Processes Continued
The Moral Economy of Person Production
Disgusted Subjects
Mobilizing the Consumer
Social class differences in the accounts of smoking - striving for distinction
Every space is claimed
I've never ever let anyone hold the kids while they've got ciggies
Daily and lifecourse contexts of smoking
Explaining Social Class Inequalities in Smoking
The Matter of Habit
Smoking, Stigma and Social Class
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |