Consumer Culture: Consumer Culture, Second Edition
Autor Celia Luryen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mai 2011
The second edition of Consumer Culture explores the nature and role of consumption in modern societies. Celia Lury's up-to-date revision of this successful classic establishes the importance of new object-based studies for consumer culture, and incorporates new chapters on branding and the rise of ethical consumption.
Drawing on a wide range of studies, and using contemporary illustrations from the media and popular culture, Lury examines the emergence of consumer culture and the changing relations between the production and consumption of cultural goods. She argues that consumer culture has become increasingly stylized and now provides an important context for everyday creativity.
This new edition of Consumer Culture explores the way in which the position of individuals within social groups and their position in social groups structured by class, gender, race, and age affects the nature of their participation in consumer culture. The powerful role consumption plays in our lives is revealed and consumer culture is seen to provide new ways of creating social and political identities.
Drawing on a wide range of studies, and using contemporary illustrations from the media and popular culture, Lury examines the emergence of consumer culture and the changing relations between the production and consumption of cultural goods. She argues that consumer culture has become increasingly stylized and now provides an important context for everyday creativity.
This new edition of Consumer Culture explores the way in which the position of individuals within social groups and their position in social groups structured by class, gender, race, and age affects the nature of their participation in consumer culture. The powerful role consumption plays in our lives is revealed and consumer culture is seen to provide new ways of creating social and political identities.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780813550671
ISBN-10: 081355067X
Pagini: 238
Ilustrații: 16
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:Second Edition, Second Edition, Revised and Updated
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10: 081355067X
Pagini: 238
Ilustrații: 16
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:Second Edition, Second Edition, Revised and Updated
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Notă biografică
CELIA LURY is a professor of sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Cuprins
Introduction: What is Consumer Culture?
1. Material Culture and Consumer Culture
2. Exchanging Things: The Economy and Culture
3. Objects, Subjects and Signs
4. Capital, Class and Consumer Culture
5. Circuits of Culture and Economy: Gender, Race and Reflexivity
6. Brands: Markets, Media and Movement
7. Consuming Ethics, or What Goes Around, Comes Around
8. Consumer Culture, Identity and Politics: When Are You (Not) a Consumer?
Bibliography
Index
1. Material Culture and Consumer Culture
2. Exchanging Things: The Economy and Culture
3. Objects, Subjects and Signs
4. Capital, Class and Consumer Culture
5. Circuits of Culture and Economy: Gender, Race and Reflexivity
6. Brands: Markets, Media and Movement
7. Consuming Ethics, or What Goes Around, Comes Around
8. Consumer Culture, Identity and Politics: When Are You (Not) a Consumer?
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
"In a now vast literature Celia Lury's new edition stands out for its clarity and critical intelligence. In addition to offering a guide through the thicket of new and old approaches, this book provides readers with a map to explore how consumption shapes personal and group identities."
"Consumer Culture is a gem of a book. Celia Lury writes with insight, timeliness, and a thorough mastery of the subject. The general reader, the scholar, and the student will read Consumer Culture with the disturbing kind of satisfaction that comes from learning just how deeply consumerism has become a way of life."
"Consumer culture is everywhere but we rarely see it. In second revised edition, Celia Lury takes a number of vivid scenes from our daily lives and provides helpful cultural grounding for questioning our ordinary experiences as consumers. Well organized and well written, the book provides an articulated picture of an increasingly fundamental aspect of contemporary cultures, stressing the role that ethics, subjectivity and difference have in shaping what consumer culture is today. Offering theoretical definitions and practical examples, this is a user-friendly book which will attract many readers and help them through the predicament of consumer choice and its increasingly relevant symbolic centrality for subjectivity constitution."
"A concise yet theoretically dense overview of the main issues that scholars and researchers of consumer culture will be focusing on for years to come. Essential."
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The second edition of Consumer Culture explores the nature and role of consumption in modern societies. Celia Lury's up-to-date revision of this successful classic establishes the importance of new object-based studies for consumer culture, and incorporates new chapters on branding and the rise of ethical consumption. Drawing on a wide range of studies, and using contemporary illustrations from the media and popular culture, Lury examines the emergence of consumer culture and the changing relations between the production and consumption of cultural goods.