Do mundane daily choices, such as what brands people buy in a supermarket, reflect aspects of values and ideologies? This article presents a large-scale field study performed to determine whether traits associated with a conservative ideology, as measured by voting behavior and religiosity, are manifested in consumers' routine, seemingly inconsequential product choices. Our analysis of market s...

We develop a dynamic, 2-party citizen-candidate model in which candidates are distinguished by both their ideology and their valence. We provide sufficient conditions under which (i) the median voter is decisive and (ii) there exists a unique symmetric, stage-undominated, stationary perfect Bayesian equilibrium. In our dynamic setting, reputational concerns endogenize incentives to compromise. ...

Abstract Ideology plays a central role in consumer decisions, actions, and practices. While there have been numerous studies of ideological formations specific consumption contexts, an integrative theoretical framework on ideology has missing. The presented this article integrates systemic, social group, reality perspectives from theory with prior research to conceptualize as ideas ideals that ...

Covid-19 has exerted a significant impact on people’s life and health. Former coronavirus-related studies are mainly done through the lens of cognitive linguistics, especially Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphor Theory. This study focuses ideational grammatical metaphors in American news, taking New York Times as corpus for qualitative quantitative analysis. The combines current issues concernin...

In this paper I argue that Foucaultian genealogy offers a critical approach to practices of remembering and forgetting which is crucial for resisting oppression and dominant ideologies. For this argument I focus on the concepts of counter-history and counter-memory that Foucault developed in the 1970’s. In the first section I analyze how the Foucaultian approach puts practices of remembering an...

This article explores mothers’ narratives of ‘prepping’ behaviours. Prepping involves the management stockpiled household items in anticipation marketplace disruption. In this article, we use anticipated food shortages following UK’s exit from EU (‘Brexit’) as our context. Drawing on interview data, highlight how mothers embed prepping into their ongoing pursuit intensive motherhood, bound high...

For many of today’s social theorists and cultural critics, questions of identity are a central concern. In this paper I examine one highly influential strand of theorising about identity, associated primarily with the discipline of Cultural Studies. Here, whilst identity is certainly a key focus, it is also one which some have begun to question. Marjorie Ferguson and Peter Golding, for instance...