Concept information
Preferred term
sociology of waste
Definition
- As the study of society, sociology is intrinsically concerned with empirical observation of society, revealing patterns and divisions across space, gender, class, race, and ethnicity. The discipline is especially suited to analyzing socioeconomic divisions, social mobility, and deviance, all of which may be illuminated through studies of waste. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage; Sociology of Waste]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- avoided cost
- crime and garbage
- culture, values, and garbage
- economics of consumption
- economics of waste collection and disposal
- externalities
- freeganism
- garbage art
- garbage dreams
- garbage, minimalism, and religion
- garbage! the revolution starts at home
- garblogging
- Greenpeace
- history of material culture
- international economics of consumption
- international economics of waste collection and disposal
- material culture today
- materialist values
- needs and wants
- race and garbage
- rubbish theory
- socialist societies
- surveys and information bias
- waste as food
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/sociology_of_waste
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