Shopping
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7077895 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sharon Zukin (0009-0001-6476-1779, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeoss113 |
| OpenAlex | W4234810598 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
As the public face of consumption, shopping includes an array of social, economic, and cultural activities connected with consumers' selection and procurement of goods and services. In contrast to consumption, which, historically, is synonymous with satisfaction of basic biological needs, shopping is a distinctly modern ensemble of actions, perceptions, and emotions. Shopping develops in a money economy, on a sophisticated industrial base, along with the integration of local places into larger markets providing a range of innovative, and often exotic, product choices. Choice is, indeed, a keyword of shopping, for the process of identifying needed or desired products and selecting among them magnifies the role of individual decision‐making and taste. But collective norms and pressures are equally important. Whether the parameters of a man's, a woman's, or, increasingly, a child's shopping are set by money, access to information, or the example set by their peers, shopping expresses both individual desires and collective dreams
Advertising · Business · Commerce · Conspicuous consumption · Consumption (sociology · Economics · Economy · Face (sociological concept · Goods and services · Microeconomics · Perception · Process (computing · Procurement · Product (mathematics · Set (abstract data type · Sharing economy · Sociology · Taste · Computer Science · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Psychology · Wine Industry and Tourism · Marketing
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |