Consumer Culture: History, Theory and PoliticsSAGE, 2007 M04 30 - 248 páginas "A thorough and wide-ranging synthetic account of social scientific research on consumption which will set the standard for the second generation of textbooks on cultures of consumption." - Alan Warde, University of Manchester "The multi-disciplinary nature of the book provides new and revealing insights, and Sassatelli conveys brilliantly the heterogeneity and ambivalent nature of consumer identities, consumer practices and consumer cultures... Newcomers to consumer culture will find this an invaluable primer and introducton to the major concepts and ideas, while those familiar with the field will find Sassatelli′s sharp analysis and discussion both refreshing and inspiring." - James Skinner, Journal of Sociology "This is a model of what a text book ought to be. Over the past decade the original debates about consumption have been overlaid by a vast amount of detailed research, and it seems unimaginable that a single text couuld do justice to all of these. To do so would involve as much a commitment to depth as to breadth. I was quite astonished at how well Sassatelli succeeds in balancing the two... Ultimately, it′s the book that I would trust to help people digest what we now have discovered about consumption and start from a much more mature and reflective foundation to consider what more we might yet do." - Daniel Miller, Material World Showing the cultural and institutional processes that have brought the notion of the ′consumer′ to life, this book guides the reader on a comprehensive journey through the history of how we have come to understand ourselves as consumers in a consumer society and reveals the profound ambiguities and ambivalences inherent within. While rooted in sociology, Sassatelli draws on the traditions of history, anthropology, geography and economics to provide:
An exemplary introduction to the history and theory of consumer culture, this book provides nuanced answers to some of the most central questions of our time. |
Contenido
| 1 | |
| 9 | |
| 13 | |
Chapter 2 | 32 |
Part II | 53 |
Chapter 3 | 57 |
Chapter 4 | 74 |
Chapter 5 | 91 |
Chapter 6 | 117 |
Chapter 7 | 139 |
Chapter 8 | 163 |
Epilogue | 193 |
Further Reading and Resources | 199 |
References | 204 |
| 230 | |
Part III | 113 |
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Términos y frases comunes
19th century activity advertising American Appadurai Baudrillard become Belk Bourdieu Campbell capital capitalist Chapter characterized choice commercial commodities commoditization consider conspicuous consumption consumer capital consumer culture consumer practices consumer society consumer sovereignty consumerism contemporary contexts of consumption creative critical de-commoditization desires discourses domestic Douglas economic emphasis ethic example exchange fact fashion forms function gender global groups hedonism ibid identity images important increasingly individual industry institutions instrumental rationality leisure lifestyles linked London luxury mass material culture McDonald’s McDonaldization meanings mediated Miller modern moral neoclassical economics objects organization orig particular perspective Pierre Bourdieu pleasure political political consumerism practices of consumption production and consumption productivist promote purchase rational relations relationship retail rituals role Routledge Sassatelli Simmel social actors sociology space specific sphere spread structure studies style sumer sumption symbolic taste theory tion traditional Trentmann tural variety vision Western women
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