Sociology Faculty Scholarship
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-24-2018
Publication Title
Qualitative Inquiry
Publisher
Sage Journals
Keywords
shopping, mall, architecture, collaborative autoethnography, globalism, ethnography
Abstract
Many of us have conflicted attitudes toward suburban shopping malls in the United States. Malls are environmentally irresponsible, reinforce a dependence on cars, fortify economic and social stratification, generate private-property, emphasize consumption, and are architecturally disappointing. Malls are also the places where we bought school shoes, where we garnered our first jobs, where we may see a diversity of products and people and tastes, and, remarkably, malls can still surprise us. This article is an overview of mall criticism and a narrative from reluctant mall enthusiasts. We sit at an equivocal place—in between the complexity and contradiction of the suburban shopping mall—while enjoying lunch.
Repository Citation
Corroto, Carla, "We Have Seen It All. At the Mall" (2018). Sociology Faculty Scholarship. 3.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/socio_fac/3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800418789451
Version
Post-Print
Publisher's Statement
Under SAGE's Green Open Access policy, upon the article being accepted for publication, the Accepted Version of the article may be posted in the author's institutional repository.
Peer Reviewed
1