The Authority of the Consumer

ISBN-13: 9780415089180 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 294 str.

Russell Keat; Nicholas Abercrombie; Nigel Whitley

Opis

The Authority of the Consumer explores the implications of consumer society - charting its meanings in particular contexts and debating the merits or drawbacks of this way of understanding the relationship between providers and recipients. Some have seen this development as involving a radical shift of authority - away from the provider/producer and towards the recipient/consumer. But they have differed in their responses to this shift, either welcoming it in terms of democratization, anti-elitism or empowerment, or decrying it as commercialization, populism or loss of integrity. Others have been more sceptical. These issues are explored in this important and wide-ranging book. The authors have drawn from several disciplines in the social sciences and humanities and include several non-academics. Keat has also published Enterprise Culture, with Urry (Routledge, 1991); Politics of Social Theory (Blackwell, 1981); and Understanding Phenomenology (Blackwell, 1991). Abercrombie has published Contemporary British Society (Polity, 1988); and Social Change in Contemporary Britain (Polity, 1991).

O autorze

Nicholas Abercrombie, Russell Keat