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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues, concepts and theories through which people have tried to understand consumer culture ... More

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This book enables readers to realize the significance of their shopping memories and milestones. From a cultural perspective, Jenny Shaw explores how ... More

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An international, multidisciplinary group of scholars examines the thesis of George Ritzer's popular book The McDonaldization of Society.

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"The Consumer Society Reader" is the most substantial collection of classic and contemporary readings on consumption and consumer society for ... More

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This book explores the personal savings and credit discourses surrounding post-war British consumer culture. This cultural history highlights the ... More

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A follow-up to Grant McCracken's groundbreaking Culture and Consumption, this new book trades the usual platitudes about the consumer society for a ... More

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This lucid introduction to the sociology of consumerism examines the relationship between production and consumption in late capitalist societies. ... More

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John Urry has been discussing and writing on these and similar questions for the past fifteen years. In Consuming Places, he gathers together his ... More

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In this book, one of the leading social theorists and cultural commentators of modern times, turns his gaze on consumption. George Ritzer, author of ... More

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The author of the bestselling "Words That Work" examines what Americans say they want, how their actions often contradict those claims, and what that ... More

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Consumer Culture is written as an introductory textbook for students who are interested in the nature and role of consumption in modern societies. ... More

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Published to coincide with a major V&A exhibition, "Brand New" takes a look at contemporary consumer culture and the proliferation of brand ... More

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How do consumers process information? How do they make choices and decisions? How are decisions translated into actions of consumption? How can ... More

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"The Consumer Society" provides brief summaries of the most important and influential writings on the environmental, moral, and social implications ... More

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This major contribution to the study of social distinction offers a systematic discussion of the theoretical frameworks that deal with symbolic ... More

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The literature of marketplace behaviour, long dominated by economic and psychological discourse, has matured in the last decade to reveal the vast ... More

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Buy This Book is an important contribution to the history and understanding of consumption and advertising. This book brings together an outstanding ... More

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"Ordinary Consumption" promotes a distinctive approach to the understanding of the central practices of consumer society, a book with a controversial ... More

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This work argues that the coming of "a new consumerism" in the affluent societies marks a distinct phase of modernity. Limits of production no longer ... More

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Juliet Schor breaks a taboo by exposing Americans' shopping habits to moral society. Schor disapproves of unfettered private consumption, not only ... More

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Why do fashion houses pay exorbitant rents for retail space in London and New York from which they sell very few clothes? Why are some mothers happy ... More

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The fads, fashions, and media in popular consumer culture frequently make recreational and ideological "fun" of poverty and lower class living. It is ... More

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This book enables readers to realize the significance of their shopping memories and milestones. From a cultural perspective, Jenny Shaw explores how ... More

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