Chapter 1: Rivalry In and Out of Sport -- Chapter 2: The Games We Play -- Chapter 3: They Said What? -- Chapter 4: Are You Team Apple or Team Samsung? -- Chapter 5: Rebels or Star Fleet? -- Chapter 6: Introduction of a Hierarchy of Out-Group Derogation -- Chapter 7: Here We Are, There We Go.

1. Introduction -- 2. Social Inequality and the Plurality of Life-Styles -- 3. Inequality Processes and Vertical Social Stratification -- 4. Social Network Analysis and the Sociology of Economics -- 5. From Heterodoxy to Orthodoxy and Vice Versa -- 6. The Order of Social Sciences -- 7. Bounded...

Erik Völker untersucht ausführlich verschiedene Möglichkeiten, die soziologische Theorie der Praktiken (Praxeologie) in die ökonomische Konsumforschung zu integrieren. Im Gegensatz zur klassischen, utilitaristischen ökonomischen Theorie geht die Praxeologie von einer Habitualisierung...

Chapter 1: Status as concept and social fact -- Part I: Theoretical perspectives -- Chapter 2: The manipulation of status: Causes and effects -- Chapter 3: Status and cognition: Decision making, policy implementation, and fallacies and biases in status ordered fields -- Part II: Empirical cases...