Social categorisation and group identification: How African-Americans shape their collective identity through consumption

Innovation by Demand: An interdisciplinary approach to the study of demand and its role in innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 88-111

  Molnár, Virág ^a   Lamont, Michèle ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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