Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Programme Committee -- Chairmen -- Discussants -- Part I. Fundamental Problems and the Epistemology of Value Research -- Fundamental Values of Western Democracies / Schwan, Alexander -- The Explanation of Values. Problems and Approaches / Opp, Karl-Dieter --...

1.Introduction: The Institution and the Imaginary in a Nordic Light; Søren Askegaard and Jacob Östberg -- 2. Democracies of taste Ruled by the Law of Jante? Rudiments of a Nordic Sociology of Consumption; Henri A. Weijo -- 3. Market Wonderland: An Essay about a Statist Individualist Consumer...

Asia, mobilities, consumption power and the Arctic / Young-Sook Lee -- A critique on the non-critical application of Veblen's conspicuous consumption : a perspective on Asian mobilities in the Arctic / Young-Sook Lee -- Chinese tourism consumption vis-à-vis tourism development strategies in the...