Consumption and the Chicago Tradition

For the sociologists of the Chicago School, or those formed in that tradition, consumption of goods and services provides a degree of contextuality that locates actors in social and physical space and time. These places and spaces are contextualized through culture, consumption, land values, and myriad other social forces. Consumption adds character to the individual, but also creates external effects in the local neighborhood. For Chicago School sociologists, consumption essentially operates in two ways. First, the location of businesses drives land values that cause a shift in the local population composition. Second, consumption of goods, products, and services characterizes populations according to urban versus rural status, ethnicity, neighborhood, gender, and age. Later theorists in the Chicago mold duly noted the reflexive nature of social networks and local ecology on consumption patterns and identity construction

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• Of Time and Space

  Andrew Abbott•Social Forces•1997

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• Louis Wirth on Cities and Social Life

  Richard Dewey, Louis Wirth et al.•Social Forces•1965

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• The Cumulative Texture of Local Urban Culture

  Gerald D Suttles•American Journal of Sociology•1984

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• Human Ecology

  Robert Ezra Park•American Journal of Sociology•1936

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