ISBN:
9781317337850
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (349 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Consumer behavior ; Social aspects
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Electronic books
Abstract:
"Cover" -- "Half Title" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Table of Contents" -- "List of illustrations" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Introduction: we are all consumers" -- "Consumption stories" -- "Imagining âthe consumerâ" -- "Theorizing everyday life" -- "Paradoxes of consumption" -- "Beyond reason: affects and âgutâ feelings" -- "1 How we became consumers: theories of consumption" -- "From the economic to the symbolic" -- "A brief history of consumption: Marx, Veblen, Simmel" -- "Marxâs understanding of consumption" -- "Veblen and social emulation" -- "Simmel and urban consumption" -- "The Romantic ethic and the modern consumer" -- "The Frankfurt School and the âmass culture industryâ" -- "Culture and consumption in âlateâ capitalism" -- "Conclusion: towards the symbolic" -- "2 You are what you buy? Consumption and identity" -- "Introduction" -- "Positional consumption" -- "Bourdieu: âdistinctionâ and âhabitusâ" -- "Habitus, life-style, and the effects on the body" -- "âLifestylesâ" -- "Consumption, authenticity, and identity" -- "To have is to be . . .?" -- "A question of identity?" -- "3 Globalization and McDisneyfication: producing the global consumer" -- "The Starbucks EffectTM" -- "âMcDisneyficationâ?" -- "Rationalization, production, and consumption: Fordism and Post-Fordism" -- "McDonaldâs, McJobs, and Burgernomics" -- "McDonaldization" -- "Disneyization" -- "And now . . . Disneyfication?" -- "Globa-cola or Loca-cola? Globalized consumption, localized cultures" -- "Globa-cola: the McDonaldization of culture?" -- "Conclusion: the ânew means of consumptionâ?" -- "4 Bodyshopping: the commodification of experience and sensation" -- "Introduction: consumption as everyday, embodied experience" -- "The multisensory consumer: retail and marketing" -- "Consuming bodies, producing bodies
Abstract:
"Shaping the body" -- "Consumption as embodied experience" -- "Conclusion: bodily restraint and excess" -- "5 Nature, Inc" -- "Introduction: from SeaWorldTM to âSee the Worldâ" -- "Experiencing nature: tourism and the âgazeâ" -- "Spectacular consumption" -- "âSee the Worldâ: tourism as desiring nature" -- "6 The âknowingâ consumer: the science of shopping and the arts of appropriation" -- "Introduction" -- "Knowing the consumer: retail psychology and the sciences of manipulation" -- "The âknowingâ consumer" -- "Michel de Certeau and the arts of appropriation" -- "âThe art of being in-betweenâ: youth consumption and subcultures" -- "Conclusion: how youth culture became mainstream culture" -- "7 Cathedrals, palaces, and paradises: modernity and the spaces of consumption" -- "Introduction" -- "Histories of shopping spaces" -- "âWindow-lickingâ: desire, phantasie -- imagination" -- "8 Malls as everyday sites of spectacle and enchantment" -- "Introduction" -- "Gendered spaces of consumption: then and now" -- "Mallrats and modern flâneurs" -- "Spaces of observation, fantasy, and control" -- "Spectacular consumption" -- "Conclusion: the malling of the world" -- "9 âJust do itâ: the poetics and politics of brands and logos" -- "Poetics of the brand" -- "Politics of the brand" -- "A quick commercial break" -- "10 The ethics of consumption" -- "Consumption stripped bare" -- "Planned obsolescence" -- "Sustainability, affluenza, and the consumption of natural resources" -- "The clash of first and third worlds" -- "The world impact of Western-style consumption" -- "References" -- "Key terms" -- "Appendix A: imagining bodies otherwise" -- "Appendix B: questions for discussion
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