2021, issue 46, Stefan Wahlen, Marlyne Sahakian and Arne Dulsrud:Consumption is, in everyday understandings, often reduced to market-relations – captured in the somewhat opaque notion of consumer demand. A sociological take on consumption reveals the many ways in which consumption can be understood: as cultural and symbolic, as shaped by systems of provision, or tied up with mundane and daily practices that can be difficult to change. Consumption represents a lens through which we can explore social structures and social change.
