Format:
1 online resource (350 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415106894
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9780203975398
Series Statement:
Material Cultures Series
Content:
A multi-disciplinary overview providing new theories, critical analyses and the latest reasearch on this very fashionable topic. Includes chapters on consumption studies in anthropology, economics, history, sociology and many more areas
Note:
BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- 1 CONSUMPTION AS THE VANGUARD OF HISTORY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 2 STUDIES IN THE NEW CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR -- I The emergence and transformation of consumer behaviour research -- THE BEGINNINGS OF A DISCIPLINE OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH -- THE EMERGENCE OF THE NEW CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR -- II A review of the new consumer behaviour literature -- CONSUMPTION SYMBOLISM -- PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS -- CONSUMPTION FESTIVALS AND RITUALS -- CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES -- CULTURAL STUDIES -- III Two case-studies -- GIFTS AND GIFT-GIVING -- CONSUMPTION AND THE SELF -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 3 THE SOCIOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION -- I The significance of the study of consumption for sociology -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SOCIOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION -- THE PROSPECTS FOR A SOCIOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION -- II A review of the sociological literature -- THE SELECTION AND PURCHASE OF GOODS: SHOPPING -- THE USE OF PERISHABLE GOODS: FOOD AND DRINK -- THE USE OF MATERIAL GOODS -- THE USE OF INTANGIBLE GOODS AND SERVICES -- III Consumption: Why the meaning is not a message -- TOURISM: MODERN CONSUMERISM ILLUSTRATED -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 4 FROM POLITICAL ECONOMY TO CONSUMPTION -- I The traditions we inherit -- THE NEOCLASSICAL ORTHODOXY -- ALTERNATIVES WITHIN POLITICAL ECONOMY -- II Recent developments -- POST-FORDISM AND FLEC-SPEC -- THE GENERATION OF NEEDS -- PRIVATE AFFLUENCE AND PUBLIC SQUALOR -- CONSUMPTION AND STRATIFICATION -- FROM HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL ANALYSIS -- III Systems of provision -- ON THE RETAILING OF FOOD -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 5 CONSUMPTION WITHIN HISTORICAL STUDIES -- I The significance of consumption for history -- INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND -- HISTORIOGRAPHICAL CHANGE -- II A review of the historical literature -- THE EXISTENCE AND EXTENT OF MASS MARKETS
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CONSUMPTION IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THINGS AND PERSONS -- CONSUMPTION, CAPITALISM AND MODERNITY -- III Two case-studies -- HOUSES AND HOUSEHOLDS -- CUSTOMISING TRANSPORT -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 9 THEORIES OF CONSUMPTION IN MEDIA STUDIES -- I Consumption in media studies -- EFFECTS, USES AND DECODINGS -- PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORIES OF THE AUDIENCE: SCREEN THEORY -- FACTS, FICTIONS AND POPULAR CULTURE -- THE 'NEW' AUDIENCE RESEARCH: REVISIONISM AND INTERPRETIVISM -- II The consumption of television as a commodity -- SIGNS OF CONSUMPTION -- OPPORTUNITIES TO CONSUME -- THE COMMODIFICATION OF TELEVISION: AUDIENCES, CONSUMERS AND CITIZENS -- TELEVISION AND POPULAR TASTE -- III Case-studies -- TELEVISION, TECHNOLOGY AND GENDER -- FAMILY TELEVISION -- THE HOUSEHOLD USES OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
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Use of probate inventories -- Work on England -- Work on Continental Europe -- Work on North America -- A single consumer revolution? -- Consumer goods, consumer knowledges and aspirations -- THE MEANINGS, SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPERATIVES OF CONSUMPTION -- Cultural meanings and social functions of goods -- Studies of meanings and discourses of consumption -- Accommodating consumption -- Migration and consumption -- III Case study -- DEPARTMENT STORES AND CONSUMER CULTURE -- CONCLUDING COMMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 6 GEOGRAPHIES OF CONSUMPTION -- INTRODUCTION -- SURVEY -- Sites -- Chains -- Space and place -- CASE-STUDIES -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 7 PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO CONSUMPTION -- Locating the problem of consumption within psychology -- PSYCHOLOGY AND CONSUMPTION: DISCIPLINARY ISSUES -- THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC PSYCHOLOGY -- ELABORATING ATTITUDE THEORY IN RELATION TO DECISION-MAKING -- EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS -- CULTURALIST APPROACHES TO ECONOMIC PSYCHOLOGY -- APPLYING ECONOMIC PSYCHOLOGY -- LOOKING TO THE FUTURE -- Research traditions in economic psychology: a literature review -- SAVINGS AND DEBT -- POSSESSIONS AND OWNERSHIP -- ECONOMIC BELIEFS -- ECONOMIC SOCIALISATION -- EVERYDAY ECONOMIC DECISION-MAKING -- EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS -- Emerging research traditions: two case-studies -- CASE-STUDY I THE MEANING OF DOMESTIC TECHNOLOGIES, BY SONIA LIVINGSTONE -- CASE-STUDY II EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 8 CONSUMPTION STUDIES AS THE TRANSFORMATION OF ANTHROPOLOGY -- I The significance of consumption for anthropology -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION -- THE CONSEQUENCES OF AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION -- II A review of the anthropological literature -- DEFERRED AND LIMITED CONSUMPTION -- CONSUMPTION AND ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY
Additional Edition:
Print version Miller, Daniel Acknowledging Consumption Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c1995 ISBN 9780415106894
Language:
English
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