Consumption and Consumer Society: The Craft Consumer and Other Essays

ISBN-13: 9783030836801 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 248 str.

Colin Campbell

Spis treści

Introduction.- The desire for the new: its nature and social location as presented in theories of fashion and modern consumerism.- Consuming Goods and the Good of Consuming.- Conspicuous Confusion? A Critique of Veblen’s Theory of Conspicuous Consumption.- The Meaning of objects and the meaning of actions: a critical note on the sociology of consumption and theories of clothing.- Shopping, Pleasure and the Sex War.- Consumption and the Rhetorics of Need and Want.- I Shop therefore I Know that I Am: The Metaphysical Basis of Modern consumerism.- The Craft Consumer: Culture, craft and consumption in a postmodern society.- The curse of the new: how the accelerating pursuit of the new is driving hyper-consumption.- A Matter of Necessity: Reflections on Need and Want in a Time of Lockdown.

O autorze

Colin Campbell is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of York, UK. He is the author of a dozen books and over one hundred articles dealing with issues in the sociology of religion, consumerism, cultural change, and sociological theory. He is probably best-known as the author of The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism (Macmillan 1987, Palgrave Macmillan 2018), although he is also known for his work in the sociology of religion (see Toward A Sociology of Irreligion, Macmillan 1971) and cultural change (The Easternization of the West, Paradigm Publishers, 2007) and social theory (see The Myth of Social Action, CUP, 1996. His latest work is Has Sociology Progressed? (Palgrave Pivot, 2019).