Increased economic power has positioned China within the global elite, yet China’s legitimacy remains low with regard to hierarchies of taste. Drawing from Bourdieu and Elias, the paper offers an account of the global dynamics of status contests, and the role played by cultural capital and notions of civility and vulgarity. Specifically, we examine how U.S., UK and Chinese media represent Chine...

The present study examined Asian and Caucasian differences in alcohol consumption and the self-reported socio-cultural and physiological correlates of consumption. The subjects were 83 Asian (38 male, 45 female) and 96 Caucasian (48 male, 48 female) students who were asked to complete questionnaires on: (1) demographic information, (2) general attitudes and values, (3) level of alcohol consumpt...

The consumption of animal flesh food in Ethiopia has associated with cultural practices. Meat plays pivotal and vital parts in special occasions and its cultural symbolic weight is markedly greater than that accorded to most other food. Processing and cooking of poultry is a gender based duty and has socio-cultural roles. Ethiopians are dependent on limited types of animals for meats due to the...

in contemporary societies, socio-cultural transformations with theoretical developments in sociology have been dealt with consumption as an important topic of sociological research. however, it seems that consumption of cultural and artistic goods and productions, due to their generality and more accessibility, has more importance for study of social distinctions and cultural changes. cultural ...

Biomedical health professionals express increasing concern that rising consumption of soft drinks and processed foods in Mayan and Latin American eating patterns may lead to detrimental nutritional and health consequences. Scholars debate whether the pervading presence of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in developing countries represents "Coca-Colonization," synonymous with cultural imperialism, or cultura...

OBJECTIVE This cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate which components of acculturation relate to drinking games participation among Hispanic college students. We also sought to examine whether the relationships between acculturation and drinking games would differ from the associations between acculturation and other alcohol-related outcomes. METHOD A sample of 1,397 Hispanic stu...

Social Media has altered the way in which people interact, collaborate and communicate. In particular, social network sites (SNS) have grown tremendously popular and are creating new forms of Web use. The social interactive nature of SNS enables people to share cultural tastes and content across the Web. Cultural goods are hedonic experiential goods and are used in SNS as a means of acquiring a...

This paper explores the relationship between smartphone practices and lifestyle in urban Iran. Recently, the use of smartphones has dramatically been increased in Iran, and this trend is expected to influence users’ lifestyle in the everyday context. Therefore, to test this hypothesis, I follow the notion of “lifestyle” which was advanced by Pierre Bourdieu to offer an analysis of this changing...

The pattern of energy consumption is affected by social, economic and cultural conditions in society.  On the other hand, energy policy has been particularly important in recent years in terms of increasing the role of energy and the environment in the economic, political and social activities of different societies. The research method is survey. The statistical sample includes 120 citizens of...

Social acceptance of drinking involves social and cultural roles and has important implications for public health. Since extensive evidence indicates that alcohol possesses immunomodulatory properties, scientists have recently debated the influence of alcohol consumption on the immune response, particularly in countries where drinking in a social setting is a part of cultural identity. Experime...