Context, Orders of Worth, and the Justification of Meat Consumption Practices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4446737 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cecilie A H Thorslund (0000-0002-1396-0882, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author), Jesper Lassen (0000-0002-3557-1087, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | 836-858 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soru.12143 |
| OpenAlex | W2507829469 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 56 |
Although animal welfare is felt to be important by consumers, behavioural patterns do not fully reflect this. Rather than relating this attitude-behaviour gap to hypocrisy, this article, building on pragmatic sociological theory and an empirical study, focuses on context-dependent moral evaluations. An analysis of focus-group interviews conducted in three countries shows that meat-related consumption practices involve several competing sets of moral conventions, and the results demonstrate that public concerns about animal welfare vary depending on whether they relate to an everyday or production context. In the former, animal welfare does not play a big role, and given this it can be argued that people are not hypocritical, since the practices and perceptions are actually united within the given context. It is concluded that the lack of civic justifications in the context of everyday life calls for new ways of making animal welfare relevant in this context in order to support consumers in moving towards products with high standards of animal welfare
Agricultural economics · Agricultural science · Archaeology · Business · Consumption (sociology) · Context (archaeology) · Economics · Geography · Social science · Sociology · Environmental Science · Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Organic Food and Agriculture
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The social challenges of not eating meat
Living in the shadow of market competition
Eating animals
I don’t think that’s like a healthy way to be healthy”
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Maintaining Meat
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Nudging, formulating new products, and the lifecourse
Depoliticisation in Livestock Farming Governance
Bypassing the animal
Market coordination and the making of conventions
Politics, products, and markets
In the company of animals
Weighing In
Cognitive dissonance
The Uses of Argument
Why Ethical Consumers Don’t Walk Their Talk
Bridging the intention–behaviour gap
The Psychology of Eating Animals
The myth of the ethical consumer – do ethics matter in purchase behaviour?
Sustainable practices
Forms of valuing nature
Focus Groups as Qualitative Research
Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology
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Applying practice theory to the study of consumption
Cooking with Bimby in a moment of recruitment
Practice-ing behaviour change
Some Insights on the Gap
Citizens’ Views on Farm Animal Welfare and Related Information Provision
Ethics and Action
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Sustainable Food Consumption
Theories of practices
Consuming conventions
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Quality certification, regulation and power in fair trade
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Thinking inside the neoliberal box
Animals and Modern Cultures
Multiple Models to Inform Climate Change Policy
Polar Bears and Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs
Consumption and Theories of Practice
Beyond the ABC
The Taste of Happiness
Back to Nature
Between Food and Flesh
Climate Change or Social Change? Debate within, amongst, and beyond Disciplines
Seeing Like a Survey
Focus groups as social enactments
The Sociology of Critical Capacity
Pragmatic sociology as political ecology
Quality standards, conventions and the governance of global value chains
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |