Consuming security?
Consuming security?
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消费安全？
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2010
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通讯作者：
Angélica Thumala
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B. Goold;I. Loader;Angélica Thumala
如果我们将安全消费视为消费，我们对私人安全的理解会发生什么变化？在这篇文章中，我们列出了一个项目的参数，该项目在理论上和实践上都致力于做到这一点。我们开始提醒人们，私人安全必然涉及买卖行为，并指出消费社会学如何阐明这一现象的核心但被忽视的事实。然后，我们开发了一个调查安全消费的框架。这集中注意个人的购物行为;个人间接消费的组织安全实践;以及可能促使安全消费或自身被安全消费的社会和政治安排。我们认为，这种看待问题的方式要求对安全商品市场繁荣或崩溃的条件进行更多的比较研究，并对不同安全商品的社会意义和轨迹进行密切的分析。作为例证，我们将重点放在四类商品上，即我们称之为平凡的、失败的、新奇的和证券化的。文章的总体主张是，私人安全的研究目前需要更大的概念和经验的审查是怎么回事时，“安全”消费。
How does our understanding of private security alter if we treat security consumption as consumption? In this article, we set out the parameters of a project which strives—theoretically and empirically—to do just this. We begin with a reminder that private security necessarily entails acts of buying and selling, and by indicating how the sociology of consumption may illuminate this central—but overlooked—fact about the phenomenon. We then develop a framework for investigating security consumption. This focuses attention on individual acts of shopping; practices of organizational security that individuals indirectly consume; and social and political arrangements that may prompt the consumption of, or themselves be consumed by, security. This way of seeing, we contend, calls for greater comparative enquiry into the conditions under which markets for security commodities flourish or founder, and close analysis of the social meanings and trajectories of different security goods. By way of illustration we focus on four such categories of good—those we term commonplace, failed, novel and securitized. The overarching claim of the article is that the study of private security currently stands in need of greater conceptual and empirical scrutiny of what is going on when ‘security’ is consumed.