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Taste as a Social Weapon@@@Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste.
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This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1986-07-01. It has received 512 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Taste (sociology) & Judgement.read more
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Mexicans' Consumption of Taxed Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and the Psychosocial Determinants of Consumption in the Context of the 2014 Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax - A Mixed Methods Study
TL;DR: The purpose of this study was to explore what are Mexicans’ beliefs, attitudes, social norms, and behaviors in relation to SSBs in the context of the SSB tax, and why and how behaviors have been modified.
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The pull of soccer and the push of Xhosa boys in an HIV and drug abuse intervention in the Western Cape, South Africa
Melissa Medich,Deborah Mindry,Mark Tomlinson,Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus,Jason Bantjes,Dallas Swendeman +5 more
TL;DR: Examination of an intervention using soccer and job training to engage and deliver activities for HIV prevention, substance abuse, and gender-based violence in a South African township highlights how changing risky, normative behaviours among young men is a negotiated process entailing men's relationships with women and with other men.
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Finnish professional criminals and their organisations in the 1990SA
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on Finnish professional criminals and their organisations in Finland and in cross-border crime operations and compared the differences and similarities of professional criminals with organized crime groups.
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All the world's a stage: How Irish immigrants negotiated life in England in the 1950s/1960s using Goffman's theory of impression management:
TL;DR: The authors used oral history to consider the relative merits of symbolic interactionism in revealing new insights regarding the Irish immigration experience in England during the 1950s and 1960s, and used this information to understand the Irish population in Ireland during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Digitality and materiality of new media: online TV watching in china
TL;DR: Looking at how people make choices and decisions regarding TV watching in everyday life, this study illustrates that materiality and digitality are complementary, instead of one substituting the other, and are highly intertwined in the hybrid media environment around which meaningful experiences are conditioned and produced.