A Social and Economic Theory of Consumption

David Kivinen, Keijo Rahkonen, Jukka Gronow (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

237 Seiten

2010
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-24410-8 (ISBN)

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Kaj Ilmonen was a pioneer in the third wave of the sociology of consumption. This book provides a balanced overview of the sociology of consumption, arguing that the enthusiasm of 'the third wave' exaggerated the role of the symbolic and imaginary at the expense of the materiality of human societies.

Alan Warde is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester.

Foreword 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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.12.2010
Zusatzinfo	X, 237 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-230-24410-6 / 0230244106
ISBN-13	978-0-230-24410-8 / 9780230244108
Zustand	Neuware