Consumer Culture
ISBN: 9780745643304 | 0745643302
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Polity
Pub. Date: 10/1/2010
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The second edition of Consumer Culture brings this successful introductory textbook right up-to-date for students who are interested in the nature and role of consumption in modern societies. It introduces the importance of new object-based studies for consumer culture, as well as adding new chapters on branding and the rise of ethical consumption. Drawing on a wide range of studies, and using contemporary illustrations from the media and popular culture, the author examines the rise of consumer culture and the changing relations between the pr... MORE
| Introduction: What is consumer culture? | |
| Material Culture and Consumer Culture | |
| Exchanging things: the economy and culture | |
| Objects, subjects and signs | |
| Capital, class and consumer culture | |
| Circuits of culture: gender, race and reflexivity | |
| Brands: markets, media and movement | |
| Consuming ethics, or What goes around, comes around | |
| Cons... MORE | |
| Bibliography | |
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