Providing a theoretically informed discussion of the specificities of sociology of consumption, Consumers and Consumption in Comparison focuses on three main approaches: Consumption and social inequality; Consumption and gender; and Consumption and social movements.

Introduction – Consumption in the social sciences; Pål Strandbakken, Eivind Jacobsen, Arne Dulsrud, and Silje Elisabeth Skuland
Chapter 1. Financial well-being and the welfare state: Effects of the cost-of-living crisis in the UK and Norway; Christian Poppe, Jamie Evans, and Elaine Kempson
Chapter 2. Feeding the family with a disability or long-term health condition: Lone-parent families at risk of food insecurity in England and Denmark; Julia Brannen, Rebecca O’Connell, and Kia Ditlevsen
Chapter 3. Exploring the individual-level factors influencing trust in consumer rights protection: A cross-national study in Europe; Andreea Ioana Alecu
Chapter 4. Neo-materialist movement organisations’ scaling through strategies and consumer collective action: Comparing three European food movement scenes; Stefan Wahlen, Francesca Forno, and Mikko Juhani Laamanen
Chapter 5. Conditions for sustainable food consumption: A comparative study of Europeans’ valuations of chicken meat; Gunnar Vittersø, Mattia Andreola, Unni Kjærnes, Sabina Kuraj, Alexander Schjøll, and Hanne Torjusen
Chapter 6. Comparing male and female wardrobes: Gender dynamics in the practice of dressing; Vilde Anine Rydal Haugrønning and Ingrid Haugsrud
Chapter 7. ‘Gamers’ crafted by consumption: The influence of consumption on gender identities in video games; Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes
Chapter 8. Between distributed agency and choice architecture: Comparing nudge and practice theoretical approaches to changing consumption; Johanna Sofia Adolfsson, Arve Hansen, and Ulrikke Wethal
Chapter 9. Contested imaginaries of preferable food futures: A comparative analysis of the digital food provisioning platforms ODA and REKO-ringen; Marie Hebrok and Nina Heidenstrøm