Wyzwania, z jakimi mierzy się socjolog w badaniach konsumpcji
Challenges for a Sociologist in Research on Consumption

Summary/Abstract: In the following paper, the specifics of consumption have been illustrated as a socio‑economic phenomenon encompassing the areas of social and economic life that overlap each other. This gives rise to difficulties with the unequivocal determination of the boundaries between the fields of science that deal with such research. The pursuit of becoming familiar with the entire research concerned with consumption leads to the need to apply an interdisciplinary approach. The author of the following paper formulates thesis that the principal role in the interdisciplinary approach on consumption is played by a sociologist with regard to the competences that are associated with the possibility of combining various research methods within the framework of a single project. Theoretical foundations of the interdisciplinary approach have been presented along with examples of its application in research on consumption. Particular attention has been paid to the methodological challenges that sociologists face in research on micro and macro‑social dimensions of consumption.

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