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Lifestyle transformation and reduced consumption: a transformative learning process
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7215-2623
2022 (English)In: sozialpolitik.ch, E-ISSN 2297-8224, no 1, article id Article 1.2Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Overconsumption habits and structures have a huge environmental impact. The ar-ticle uses a qualitative interview study of environmentally conscious Swedish citizens undertaking a lifestyle transformation process to reduce their overall consumption in the context of mass consumption society. The purpose is to emphasise the importance of a transformative learning perspective to understand pathways and challenges for transforming towards less consumerist lifestyles. The study demonstrates five mutually bolstering aspects of learning experiences in this lifestyle transformation process: 1) factual and theoretical learning; 2) practical, corporal and tacit learning; 3) personal and emotional learning; 4) social relational learning; and 5) critical learning. It stresses the importance of a social dimension including the interplay of macro, meso and micro levels.

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Universität Fribourg, Departement Sozialwissenschaften Studienbereich, Soziologie, Sozialpolitik und Sozialarbeit , 2022. no 1, article id Article 1.2
Keywords [en]
Social dimension, downsizing, consuming less, social practices, voluntary simplicity
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Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-99373DOI: 10.18753/2297-8224-186OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-99373DiVA, id: diva2:1663448
Available from: 2022-06-02 Created: 2022-06-02 Last updated: 2022-06-07Bibliographically approved

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