Comfort, cleanliness and convenience...
Shove, Elizabeth, (1959-.)

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  • Comfort, cleanliness and convenience : = the social organization of normality /
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    Title/Author: Comfort, cleanliness and convenience :/ Elizabeth Shove.
    Reminder of title: the social organization of normality /
    Author: Shove, Elizabeth,
    Published: Oxford, England ;BERG, : c2003.,
    Description: xiii, 221 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
    Series: New technologies/new cultures series,
    [NT 15003449]: Consumption, everyday life and sustainability -- Natural resources and consumer choices -- Cycles of consumption and escalators of demand -- Trajectories and transitions -- Reconfiguring practice -- Method and approach -- The science of comfort: constructing normality -- Defining comfort: a state of mind, an attribute or an achievement? -- Playing God with the indoor climate -- Quantifying comfort -- Qualifying comfort -- Constructing comfort -- The co-evolution of comfort: interdependence and innovation -- Dimensions and dynamics -- Difference and coherence: acquiring and using air-conditioning -- Diffusion, diversity and lighting -- Comfort as collective practice: the siesta -- Reconfiguring comfort -- Regimes of comfort: systems in transition -- Levels, layers and landscapes -- Convergence, abstraction and reversal -- Escalating and standardizing concepts of comfort -- Introducing cleanliness: morality, technology and practice -- Questions of cleanliness -- Morality, technology and practice -- Humours, miasmas and germs -- Dirt and discrimination -- Commodifying cleanliness -- Qualifying cleanliness -- Behind the bathroom door: revolving rationales -- Bathroom consumption -- Reasons and rationales -- Understanding bathing and showering -- Bathtime stories -- Power showering in theory and practice -- Laundering: a system of systems -- Laundering as work -- Escalating standards or redefining service? -- Why wash? -- What is washed? -- When is the laundry done? -- What does 'doing the laundry' involve? -- The laundry as a system of systems -- Laundry habits: integrating practices -- Classifications and categories -- Innovation and tradition -- Millers of meaning and practice -- System and service -- Reconsidering cleanliness -- Reconfiguring routine -- Redefining service -- Convenience, co-ordination and convention -- Convenience and the pace of life -- Co-ordination and fragmentation -- Convenience devices -- Rush and calm -- Convenience and convention -- Ratchets, pinwheels, cogs and spirals -- Regimes, services and the reorganization of normality -- Models and mechanisms.
    Subject: Consumers - Psychology. -
    Online resource: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip041/2003006204.htmlhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip041/2003006204.html
    Online resource: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol059/2003006204.htmlhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol059/2003006204.html
    Online resource: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol052/2003006204.htmlhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol052/2003006204.html
    ISBN: 1859736254 (hbk.) :
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