Consumer culture : history, theory and politics /
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| Author / Creator: | Sassatelli, Roberta. |
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| Uniform title: | Consumo, cultura e società. English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, c2007. |
| Description: | vi, 237 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6430002 |
Table of Contents:
- The Rise of Consumer Culture
- Capitalism and the Consumer Revolution
- Consumption, Production and Exchange
- The Genesis of Consumer Capitalism
- From Courts to Cities, from Luxuries to Fashion
- 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
- Utility and Social Competition
- The Sovereign Consumer
- The Limits of Economic Rationality
- Fashion, Style and Conspicuous Consumption
- Beyond Emulation
- Needs, Manipulation and Simulation
- From Commodity Fetishism to Critical Theory
- Nature, Authenticity and Resistance
- Post-Modern Pessimism
- Social Relations and Consumption
- Taste, Identity and Practices
- Taste and Distinction
- Cultural Classification and Identity
- Appropriating Commodities
- Ambivalence and Practice
- The Politics of Consumption
- 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
- Commodities and Consumers
- Commoditization and De-commoditization
- Goods, Values and the Boundaries of Commoditization
- The Normalization of Consumption
- Contexts of Consumption
- Leisure, Commercial Institutions and Public Places
- The Home, the Commercialization of Feelings and Cultural Consumption
- Local Consumption in Mcdonaldized settings
- Alternative Consumption and Social Movements