Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience: The Social Organization of Normality

By Elizabeth Shove. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Home sounds: experiential practices and performativities of hearing and listening (2013, background): “The hum of the fridge presented a household dilemma both undermining and sustaining the homemaking practices and performativities made possible by the cooling, freezing, ordering and storage of food (Shove 2003).”
One More Awareness Gap? The Behaviour–Impact Gap Problem (2012, background): “A radical change in M. Csutora (*) Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary e-mail: Maria.csutora@uni-corvinus.hu environmental impact requires a radical change in lifestyle (Shove, 2003).”
Practice-ing behaviour change: Applying social practice theory to pro-environmental behaviour change (2011, background): “…of social marketing, that it ‘works with’ rather than against existing lifestyles and patterns of consumption, others, and most prominently Shove (2003, 2004, 2010), argue that such an approach is fundamentally flawed and in fact serves to legitimize, rather than challenge, a whole…”
Climate Change and Society: The Chimera of Behaviour Change Technologies (2012, background): “Water consumption itself is not necessarily perceived as integral to the accomplishment of taken-for-granted activities; instead, it is one part of a complex inter-relation of the material, the conventional and the temporal which constitute ordinary social practices (Shove, 2003).”
Transition heuristic frameworks in research on agro-food sustainability transitions (2020, background): “Many authors highlighted the need for integration of transition frameworks in order to better understand and nurture sustainability transitions (Markard and Truffer 2008; Meelen and Farla 2013; Shove 2003).”
Trade unions and climate change : The jobs versus environment dilemma (2011, background): “For instance, taking a shower holds connotations of freshness, becoming revitalised, being clean, and being modern (Shove, 2003).”
Standby Consumption in Households Analyzed With a Practice Theory Approach (2009, background): “This particular norm may be considered to constitute a fourth C (connectedness) that can be added to the three Cs (comfort, cleanliness, and convenience) that Elizabeth Shove (2003) demonstrated contribute to the development of new energy-consuming practices.”
A critical appraisal of Sustainable Consumption and Production research: The reformist, revolutionary and reconfiguration positions (2015, background): “In line with this call, the reconfiguration position argues that SCP-research and policy should focus on the transformation of socio-technical systems and daily life practices in domains such as mobility, food, and energy provision and use (Shove, 2003; Elzen et al., 2004; Tukker et al., 2007).”
Efficient technologies or user behaviour, which is the more important when reducing households’ energy consumption? (2013, background): “An influential example of this is Shove, who wrote a book on how social norms of comfort, cleanliness, and convenience have changed over the last centuries with the introduction of new technological possibilities (Shove 2003).”
Energy comes home (2007, background): “Thus, the article will pursue social and cultural explanations of private energy consumption (cf. Wilk and Wilhite 1985, Wilhite et al. 1996, Lutzenhiser 1988, Shove 2003).”
Calculation, qualculation, calqulation: shopping cart arithmetic, equipped cognition and the clustered consumer (2008, background): “…– historical accounts of (respectively) self-service arrangements and material forms of advertising, and Shove’s studies on the consumption of freezers (Shove, 2000), showers (Shove, 2003), walking sticks (Shove and Pantzar, 2005), etc.; see also Callon et al.’s (2007) book on ‘market devices’.”