Research groups

The group aims to broaden and consolidate the analysis of consumer behaviour and the concept of material culture. For this purpose the group manages the Observatory on the consumption of families (OSCF). The group is also active on the theoretical level with reflections on the concept of goods, on the concept of material culture and on the concept of body. The group connects its reflections and its investigations also with the issues related to the social change and to the sociology of health and well-being. To this end, through the Observatory on the consumption of families (OSCF), the group carries out a national survey, on an annual basis from 2009 to 2013 and on a two-yearly basis starting from 2016, it has published periodically the newsletters, sent to a list of several hundred operators in the sector, and, starting from 2017, it publishes a report with the Publisher FrancoAngeli in Milan. Once again through the Observatory, the group started collaborations with some consumer associations and with Coldiretti, which generated a survey on the families of the city of Verona, the results were collected in a research report and were the subject of a conference press and of a conference open to citizens.