A social and economic theory of consumption
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | Houndmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York |
Publication Dates: | 2011. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | x, 237 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780230244108 (hbk.) 0230244106 (hbk.) |
Index Number: | F014 |
CLC: | F014.5 |
Call Number: | F014.5/I299 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-228) and index. The sociology of consumption: a brief history -- Markets and the neo-liberal utopia of omnipotent markets -- Commodities and consumption: general and specific features -- Want, need and commodity -- Consumption and the necessary economic conditions for consumption -- The use and meanings of money -- Mechanisms of consumption choice and their general cultural framework -- Consumption as ideological discourse -- Consumption as use: our relationship to commodities. |