Consumer culture and society. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Wendy A. Wiedenhoft Murphy.
• Authors: Wiedenhoft Murphy, Wendy A
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Historical Contexts and Theoretical Tensions; Historical Context; Positioning the Concept of Consumption: Tensions and Contradictions; Organization of the Book; Part I: Conceptual Framework; Chapter 2: The Objects of Consumption: Commodities and Mass Consumer Society; The Production of Commodities; The Value of Commodities; The Meaning of Commodities; Obsolescence and Waste; The Commoditization of Everything?; Chapter 3: The Subjects of Consumption: Passive Dupes or Active Agents?; Emulation, Distinction, or Rebellion?; Passive Dupes; Utility or Hedonism?; Chapter 4: The Means of Consumption: Spaces and Places; The City, Arcades, and Department Stores; Shopping Malls and Big Box Stores; Wal-Mart: Killing the Category Killers?; Amazon.com and E-Commerce; The Privatization of Public Space; Part II: Applying the Conceptual Framework: Case Studies; Chapter 5: Food; Food as an Object of Consumption; Food and the Subjects of Consumption; Food and Places of Consumption; Chapter 6: Tourism; Tourism and the Objects of Consumption; Tourism and the Subjects of Consumption; Tourism and the Places of Consumption; Chapter 7: Education; Higher Education as a Place of Consumption; Higher Education as an Object of Consumption; Higher Education and the Subjects of Consumption; Part III: Ethical Concerns and Consumer Activism; Chapter 8: Political Consumerism and the Consumer Movement; Political Consumerism: A Brief History; The Consumer Movement; Political Consumerism: A New Era; Chapter 9: Credit and Debt; Liberalization of Financial Markets and the Credit Industry; Debtor-Creditor Relationships; Debt Forgiveness and Relief; Chapter 10: Alternative Forms of Consumption; Frugality, Sacrifice, Austerity and Postmaterialism; The Voluntary Simplicity Movement; The Do-It-Yourself Movement; Local Currency Movement; Consumer Cooperatives; Collaborative Consumption and the Sharing Economy; Co-Creation, Presumers, and Prosumption: Free Consumer Labor; Reduce, Reuse, and Dematerialism; Chapter 11: Conclusion; The Globalization of Mass Consumer Culture; China; India;
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 339.47; Consumption (Economics)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483358147; 9781483358161
• Related ISBNs: 9781483358154
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