Roberta Sassatelli

Sociologist with an interdisciplinary perspective.

My work focuses on the sociology of culture, consumption, the body and gender, with particular attention to processes of value construction, subjectivity, and the transformations of contemporary capitalism, also in relation to critical theories of commodities and modernity. My research combines social theory, historical perspective and ethnography, exploring themes such as embodiment, material culture, and the normative dimensions of consumption. Currently co-editor of European Journal of Sociology/Archives Européennes de Sociologie, I have recently worked on body and gender, moral capitalism, personalization and affective labour, the cultural role of economic elites, and the conspicuous dimensions of sustainable consumption.