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The Influence of Professions on the Perception and Narrativization of Olfactory Practices

Student: Luzanova Elizaveta

Supervisor: Elena Rozhdestvenskaya

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Sociology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2018

In recent decades, the methodological interest of sociologists began to cause social experiments that reflect the role of smell in public life. The sociological interest in this area is to study how social behavior is related to the olfactory plot. The founder of the study of the sociology of smell was G. Zimmel. The major modern scholarly works on this subject belong, Th. Veblen, C. Classen, D. House, E. Sinnott. Among the Russian scientists in this area explores A. Levinson. The study of this work was aimed at the sphere of professional activity as a space where the rules and restrictions on the olfactory culture apply. Depending on the professions, the restrictions vary. They will be the subject of this study. In order to maximize the contrast were selected representatives of the following classes, which have different regulations olfactory consumption, namely, office staff, representatives of food service, health workers. For this study, a qualitative methodology was chosen using semi-structured interviews. The interview guide was developed in three main areas – olfactory consumption as a structure of experience, regulation of olfactory consumption as articulated rules, reflection and the position of the Respondent on the institutional-supported rules of the professional field. In the empirical part of this work the analysis of respondents ' narratives about olfactory practices and their regulation was carried out. On the basis of this analysis, conclusions were drawn on the proposed assumptions about the growing trends towards the inclusion of olfactory regime in the regulatory requirements; the tendency to increase social competence in the appropriateness of the use of odors; the possible liberal regime of olfactory consumption in relation to the femine practices.

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