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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Comfort, cleanliness and convenience
    sub title: the social organization of normality
  name:
    name part: Shove, Elizabeth
    name part: 1959-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  table of contents: 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,…
  note: Elizabeth Shove.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Lifestyles
  subject:
    topic: Health behavior
  subject:
    topic: Consumption (Economics)
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Consumers
    topic: Psychology
  classification: HQ2042 .S56 2003
  classification: 306
  related item:
    title info:
      title: New technologies/new cultures series
  identifier: 1859736254 (cloth)
  identifier: 1859736300 (Pbk)
  identifier: 2003006204
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 030314
    record change date: 20151025123518.0
    record identifier: in00001779761