Comfort, cleanliness and convenience: the social organization of normality/

Main Author: Shove, Elizabeth, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford New York: Berg, 2003
Series:New technologies/new cultures series
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245 1 0 |a Comfort, cleanliness and convenience:   |b the social organization of normality/  |c Elizabeth Shove 
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300 |a xiii, 221 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 25 cm. 
490 0 |a New technologies/new cultures series  |x 1472-2895 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-213) and index. 
505 1 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Lifestyles 
650 0 |a Health Behavior 
650 0 |a Consumption (Economics)  |x Social aspects 
650 0 |a Consumers  |x Psychology 
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