Consumer culture : history, theory and politics /: history, theory and politics. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Consumo, cultura e società.
• Further Information: Note: Roberta Sassatelli.
• Other Names: Sassatelli, Roberta
• Contents: 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 Mcdonaldized settings; Alternative Consumption and Social Movements;
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (248 pages)
• Subjects: 306.3; Consumption (Economics); Consumers -- Attitudes; Marketing -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446224991; 1446224996
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.