Articles
Fashion and the College Transition: Liminality, Play, and the Structuring Power of the Habitus, Advances in Consumer Research (2008)
Fashion has long been a signifier of social divisions within the education system as well...
Capital, Consumption, Communication, and Citizenship: The Social Positioning of Taste and Civic Culture in the United States (with Lewis Friedland, Dhavan V. Shah, Nam-Jin Lee, Lucy Atkinson, and Thomas Hove), The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2007)
In this paper, we analyze the field of cultural consumption in the United States, drawing...
Downshifting Consumer = Upshifting Citizen? (with Michelle R. Nelson and Hye-Jin Pack), The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2007)
Critics suggest that contemporary consumer culture creates over-worked and over-shopped consumers who no longer engage...