Consumer Culture/ History, Theory and Politics Sassatelli,Roberta
Material type: TextPublication details: London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2007Description: 248ISBN: 141291180XDDC classification: 306.3Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 306.3 SAS/C (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 16/02/2021 | P32888 |
THE RISE OF CONSUMER CULTURE
Chapter 1: Capitalism and the Consumer Revolution Consumption, Production and Exchange The Genesis of Consumer Capitalism From Courts to Cities, from Luxuries to Fashion
Chapter 2: The Cultural Production of Economic Value Commodity Flows, Knowledge Flows The Invention of the Consumer and the cultural trajectories of good Consumer Society as Historical Type THEORIES OF CONSUMER AGENCY Chapter 3: Utility and Social Competition The Sovereign Consumer The Limits of Economic Rationality Fashion, Style and Conspicuous Consumption Beyond Emulation
Chapter 4: Needs, Manipulation and Simulation From Commodity Fetishism to Critical Theory Nature, Authenticity and Resistance Post-Modern Pessimism Social Relations and Consumption Chapter 5: Taste, Identity and Practices Taste and Distinction Cultural Classification and Identity Appropriating Commodities Ambivalence and Practice THE POLITICS OF CONSUMPTION
Chapter 6: Representation and Consumerism The Anti-Consumerist Rhetoric and the Apology of Consumption Advertising Cultures and their Languages The Functions and Meanings of Ads Ideology, Social Differences and Consumerism Chapter 7: Commodities and Consumers Commoditization and De-commoditization Goods, Values and the Boundaries of Commoditization The Normalization of Consumption
Chapter 8: Contexts of Consumption Leisure, Commercial Institutions and Public Places The Home, the Commercialization of Feelings and Cultural Consumption Local Consumption in Mc donaldized settings Alternative Consumption and Social Movements
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