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According to Maffesoli (1988, 1991, 1996), we are currently witnessing a resurgence of basic forms of community, a move away from rational, contractual social relationships...

The dominant position in feminist studies exemplified by scholars such as Susan Bordo (1997) claims that consumer culture oppresses women by holding them to impossible...

Select the ‘flat’ body block or the ‘flat’ shirt block for the kimono adaptation (depends on fit required). Extend to dress length if required. The...

Perhaps the most influential approach towards the study of fashion within the social sciences has been that associated with writers such as Veblen, Simmel and,...

This is the greeting given to telephone callers to Diesel Industries HQ in Molvena, Italy. Diesel makes no secret of its globalising philosophy: its founder,...

Ailsa Falconer is Edinburgh’s Inspiring Capital City Region brand manager. She is the first brand manager the city has employed in its long and august...

If one were to apply modernist terminology, one would say that education in ancient Athens, but for certain extenuating circumstances, was basically a private than...

To many people, sports nutrition is about carbo-loading for a competition หมาล่า, or having the latest sports food or supplement. However, the ‘big-ticket item’ with...

Peering into other people’s food trolleys is a voyeuristic game we can all play when queuing at the checkout (as French gastronome Brillat-Savarin put it,...

In most sports, athletes periodise their training. There may be a base phase after the off-season in which high volumes of training are used to...