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A Guide to the Systems of Provision ApproachThe SoP Approach: Theoretical Background and Empirical Practice

A Guide to the Systems of Provision Approach: The SoP Approach: Theoretical Background and... [This chapter starts with an overview of the theoretical foundations of the SoP approach. The consumer is considered to be located within an extensive web of, often contested, social relations of production and material cultures of consumption. For the SoP approach, it is the interaction of these complex components, dependent on the context and the commodity or provision in question, which needs to be unpacked to understand fully the nature of consumption. The chapter then moves to set out the fundamentals on which SoP research can typically begin to be built. These are: agents in the chain of provisioning and associated context; structures to include the institutional forms attached to the specific SoP and the broader social factors within which it operates (such as gender, class, race); processes which again relate to the specific activities attached to the SoP as well as to more systemic and abstract forms such as globalization, neoliberalization and privatization; relations across the elements of the SoP; and material cultures (covered in detail in Chap. 3). The chapter considers how these complexities can be addressed methodologically, and shows how the SoP approach critically draws upon but diverges from other systems-based approaches.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Guide to the Systems of Provision ApproachThe SoP Approach: Theoretical Background and Empirical Practice

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-54142-2
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29 –52
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10.1007/978-3-030-54143-9_2
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[This chapter starts with an overview of the theoretical foundations of the SoP approach. The consumer is considered to be located within an extensive web of, often contested, social relations of production and material cultures of consumption. For the SoP approach, it is the interaction of these complex components, dependent on the context and the commodity or provision in question, which needs to be unpacked to understand fully the nature of consumption. The chapter then moves to set out the fundamentals on which SoP research can typically begin to be built. These are: agents in the chain of provisioning and associated context; structures to include the institutional forms attached to the specific SoP and the broader social factors within which it operates (such as gender, class, race); processes which again relate to the specific activities attached to the SoP as well as to more systemic and abstract forms such as globalization, neoliberalization and privatization; relations across the elements of the SoP; and material cultures (covered in detail in Chap. 3). The chapter considers how these complexities can be addressed methodologically, and shows how the SoP approach critically draws upon but diverges from other systems-based approaches.]

Published: Jan 5, 2021

Keywords: Material Culture; Global Value Chains; Capitalism; Commodity Relations; GCC Approach

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