Consuming People : From Political Economy to Theatres of Consumption

ISBN-13: 9780415316200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 194 str.

A. Fuat Firat; Nikhilesh Dholakia

Opis

Consumption is widely regarded as one of the most important phenomena in contemporary society but there has been very little analysis of how consumption patterns evolve, transform and proliferate. This work provides a treatment of consumption on a global scale from a cultural, philosophical and business perspective. Beginning with an analysis of how a dominant form of consumption pattern took hold in modern, capitalist, market economies, it explores the contemporary changes and paradoxes in our consumption patterns during the transitional period from the modern to the postmodern. The text focuses, in particular, on the forces shaping American consumption patterns, from corporations to Hollywood.

Spis treści

1. The Consuming Society 2. Consumption Patterns 3. Making of the Consumer 4. Consumption in Modern Society 5. The Social Construction of Consumption Patterns in Modern Society 6. (Post)Modernity and Consumption 7. Postmodern Consumption 8. Global Consumption 9. Consuming People 10. The New Theater of Consumption

O autorze

Nikhilesh Dholakia, A. Fuat Firat