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Book Synopsis Consuming Symbolic Goods by : Wilfred Dolfsma
Download or read book Consuming Symbolic Goods written by Wilfred Dolfsma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of consumption has increasingly drawn attention from economists. While the ‘sole purpose of production is consumption’, as Adam Smith has claimed, economists have up to recently generally ignored the topic. This book brings together a range of different perspectives on the topic of consumption that will finally shed the necessary light on a largely neglected theme, such as Why is the consumption of symbolic goods different than that of goods that are not constitutive of individuals’ identity? How does the consumption of symbolic goods affect social processes and economic phenomena? Will taking consumption (of symbolic goods) seriously impact economics itself? The book discusses these issues theoretically, and, through analyses of such cases as food, religion, fashion, empirically as well. It also discusses the possible role in the future of consumption. This book was previously published as a special issue of Review of Social Economy
Book Synopsis Consuming Symbolic Goods by : Wilfred Dolfsma
Download or read book Consuming Symbolic Goods written by Wilfred Dolfsma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of consumption has increasingly drawn attention from economists. While the ‘sole purpose of production is consumption’, as Adam Smith has claimed, economists have up to recently generally ignored the topic. This book brings together a range of different perspectives on the topic of consumption that will finally shed the necessary light on a largely neglected theme, such as Why is the consumption of symbolic goods different than that of goods that are not constitutive of individuals’ identity? How does the consumption of symbolic goods affect social processes and economic phenomena? Will taking consumption (of symbolic goods) seriously impact economics itself? The book discusses these issues theoretically, and, through analyses of such cases as food, religion, fashion, empirically as well. It also discusses the possible role in the future of consumption. This book was previously published as a special issue of Review of Social Economy
Book Synopsis Culture and Consumption by : Grant David McCracken
Download or read book Culture and Consumption written by Grant David McCracken and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1990-11-22 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book compiles and integrates highly innovative work aimed at bridging the fields of anthropology and consumer behavior." —Journal of Consumer Affairs " . . . fascinating . . . ambitious and interesting . . . " —Canadian Advertising Foundation Newsletter " . . . an anthropological dig into consumerism brimming with original thought . . . " —The Globe and Mail "Grant McCracken has written a provocative book that puts consumerism in its place in Western society—at the centre." —Report on Business Magazine " . . . a stimulating addition to knowledge and theory about the interrelationship of culture and consumption." —Choice "[McCracken's] synthesis of anthropological and consumer studies material will give historians new ideas and methods to integrate into their thinking." —Maryland Historian "The book offers a fresh and much needed cultural interpretation of consumption." —Journal of Consumer Policy "The volume will help balance the prevailing cognitive and social psychological cast of consumer research and should stimulate more comprehensive investigation into consumer behavior." —Journal of Marketing Research " . . . broad scope, enthusiasm and imagination . . . a significant contribution to the literature on consumption history, consumer behavior, and American material culture." —Winterhur Portfolio "For this is a superb book, a definitive exploration of its subject that makes use of the full range of available literature." —American Journal of Sociology "McCracken's book is a fine synthesis of a new current of thought that strives to create an interdisciplinary social science of consumption behaviors, a current to which folklorists have much to contribute." —Journal of American Folklore This provocative book takes a refreshing new view of the culture of consumption. McCracken examines the interplay of culture and consumer behavior from the anthropologist's point of view and provides new insights into the way we view ourselves and our society.
Book Synopsis The Field of Cultural Production by : Pierre Bourdieu
Download or read book The Field of Cultural Production written by Pierre Bourdieu and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of art, literature and aesthetics
Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Literary Media by : Astrid Ensslin
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Literary Media written by Astrid Ensslin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Literary Media examines the fast-moving present and future of a media ecosystem in which the literary continues to play a vital role. The term ‘literary media’ challenges the tendency to hold the two terms distinct and broadens accepted usage of the literary to include popular cultural forms, emerging technologies and taste cultures, genres, and platforms, as well as traditions and audiences all too often excluded from literary histories and canons. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars and practitioners, the Companion provides a comprehensive guide to existing terms and theories that address the alignment of literature and a variety of media forms. It situates the concept in relation to existing theories and histographies; considers emerging genres and forms such as locative narratives and autofiction; and expands discussion beyond the boundaries by which literary authorship is conventionally defined. Contributors also examine specific production and publishing contexts to provide in-depth analysis of the promotion of literary media materials. The volume further considers reading and other aspects of situated audience engagement, such as Indigenous and oral storytelling, prize and review cultures, book clubs, children, and young adults. This authoritative collection is an invaluable resource for scholars and students working at the intersection of literary and media studies.
Book Synopsis Reading, Wanting, and Broken Economics by : Simon R. Frost
Download or read book Reading, Wanting, and Broken Economics written by Simon R. Frost and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining historical study, theorization, and experimental fiction, this book takes commodity culture and book retail around 1900 as the prime example of a market of symbolic goods. With the port of Southampton, England, as his case study, Simon R. Frost reveals how the city's bookshops, with their combinations of libraries, haberdashery, stationery, and books, sustained and were sustained by the dreams of ordinary readers, and how together they created the values powering this market. The goods in this market were symbolic and were not "consumed" but read. Their readings were created between other readers and texts, in happy disobedience to the neoliberal laws of the free market. Today such reader-created social markets comprise much of the world's branded economies, which is why Frost calls for a new understanding of both literary and market values.
Book Synopsis Challenges for the Italian Boating Industry by : Luana Carcano
Download or read book Challenges for the Italian Boating Industry written by Luana Carcano and published by EGEA spa. This book was released on 2011-02-08T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike any other Italian manufacturing sector, Italy's recreational boating industry has recorded skyrocketing growth rates for years, ultimately achieving a world leadership position in the construction of motor yachts. But now the global crisis has imposed profound structural changes and significant evolutionary dynamics on the industry's competitive environment. The book aims to answer some of the industry's most hotly-debated issues, including: - What are the key features that led to this success? - What business models characterize Italian shipyards? - Which elements distinguish the Italian industry from its foreign competitors? Which future challenges must the industry overcome in order to maintain its leadership position?
Book Synopsis Queering Russian Media and Culture by : Galina Miazhevich
Download or read book Queering Russian Media and Culture written by Galina Miazhevich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how queerness and representations of queerness in media and culture are responding to the shifting socio-political, cultural and legal conditions in post-Soviet Russia, especially in the light of the so-called ‘antigay’ law of 2013. Based on extensive original research, the book outlines developments historically both before and after the fall of the Soviet Union and provides the background to the 2013 law. It discusses the proliferating alternative visions of gender and sexuality, which are increasingly prevalent in contemporary Russia. The book considers how these are represented in film, personal diaries, photography, theatre, protest art, fashion and creative industries, web series, news media and how they relate to the ‘traditional values’ rhetoric. Overall, the book provides a rich and detailed, yet complex insight into the developing nature of queerness in contemporary Russia.
Book Synopsis Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture by : Dominic Power
Download or read book Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture written by Dominic Power and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting-edge perspectives on the functioning of cultural industries are offered in this volume, which explores the media, entertainment and artistic sectors. Contributors place these industries in the new economy and suggest ways in which they can contribute to urban and regional economic and social development.
Book Synopsis Green Consumerism by : Juliana Mansvelt
Download or read book Green Consumerism written by Juliana Mansvelt and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorful bracelets, funky brooches, and beautiful handmade beads: young crafters learn to make all these and much more with this fantastic step-by-step guide. In 12 exciting projects with simple steps and detailed instructions, budding fashionistas create their own stylish accessories to give as gifts or add a touch of personal flair to any ensemble. Following the successful "Art Smart" series, "Craft Smart" presents a fresh, fun approach to four creative skills: knitting, jewelry-making, papercrafting, and crafting with recycled objects. Each book contains 12 original projects to make, using a range of readily available materials. There are projects for boys and girls, carefully chosen to appeal to readers of all abilities. A special "techniques and materials" section encourages young crafters to try out their own ideas while learning valuable practical skills.
Book Synopsis Crafting Qualitative Research: Working in the Postpositivist Traditions by : Pushkala Prasad
Download or read book Crafting Qualitative Research: Working in the Postpositivist Traditions written by Pushkala Prasad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courses in management research have traditionally focused on quantitative techniques, and no available text adequately covers the many different perspectives within the qualitative model or shows which qualitative techniques work best in different settings. "Crafting Qualitative Research" fills this need. In clear and readable prose, this comprehensive text offers a detailed guide to the rich diversity of qualitative research traditions, with examples and applications specifically designed for the field of management. Each of the book's four main sections includes a descriptive "tree" diagram that lays out the historical origins of that section's traditions. Each chapter is devoted to a specific methodology and includes historical origins and development; techniques and applications; current controversies and emerging issues; and a summary box highlighting that method's utility. With its detailed and easy-to-understand coverage, this will be the text of choice for any instructor who wants to include the qualitative approach in a research methods course, as well as a useful resource for anyone doing research in the post-positivist traditions.
Book Synopsis Institutional Economics and the Formation of Preferences by : Wilfred Dolfsma
Download or read book Institutional Economics and the Formation of Preferences written by Wilfred Dolfsma and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Wilfred Dolfsma has provided us with an important and pioneering investigation of the social construction of pop music as a symbolic good, drawing on institutional and social economic thinking regarding how socio-cultural values underlie the value/price system for music goods. A necessary resource for all those seeking to understand symbolic goods and the identities they help create.' - John B. Davis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Marquette University, US The formation of preferences is an elusive subject that many social scientists, and especially economists, have tended to avoid. In this original new book, Wilfred Dolfsma combines institutional economics with insights from the other social sciences to analyse the way in which preferences are formed in a social context.
Book Synopsis The World of Goods by : Mary Douglas
Download or read book The World of Goods written by Mary Douglas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-28 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well-understood that the consumption of goods plays an important, symbolic role in the way human beings communicate, create identity, and establish relationships. What is less well-known is that the pattern of their flow shapes society in fundamental ways. In this book the renowned anthropologist Mary Douglas and economist Baron Isherwood overturn arguments about consumption that rely on received economic and psychological explanations. They ask new questions about why people save, why they spend, what they buy, and why they sometimes-but not always-make fine distinctions about quality. Instead of regarding consumption as a private means of satisfying one’s preferences, they show how goods are a vital information system, used by human beings to fulfill their intentions towards one another. They also consider the implications of the social role of goods for a new vision for social policy, arguing that poverty is caused as much by the erosion of local communities and networks as it is by lack of possessions, and contrast small-scale with large-scale consumption in the household. A radical rethinking of consumerism, inequality and social capital, The World of Goods is a classic of economic anthropology whose insights remain compelling and urgent. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Richard Wilk. "Forget that commodities are good for eating, clothing, and shelter; forget their usefulness and try instead the idea that commodities are good for thinking." – Mary Douglas and Baron Isherwood
Book Synopsis Looking for Non-publics by : Elihu Katz
Download or read book Looking for Non-publics written by Elihu Katz and published by Puq. This book was released on 2012 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Non-public" was used for the first time in May, 1968, by those working professionally in the cultural domain in France. At the time, they were gathered in Villeurbanne at the head office of the TNP (French National Popular Theatres), and they used this notion in a very militant way to describe all those who were excluded from culture, and whom they considered to have a fundamental right to all cultural offers. In this book, nine researchers from France, Quebec and Mexico tackle these questions through both qualitative and quantitative contributions dealing with various cultural sectors in which the question of non-publics remains unanswered. In fact, the non-public is not so much a group of non-participants but individuals blatantly incapable of appreciating a culture that is unfamiliar, even foreign. For over a century, the popular education movement, in its initial project to bring public and culture closer together, has emphasized this cultural gap, which even today, justifies the necessity for cultural mediation policies. The near-militant voluntarism of the active players in cultural mediation engenders certain expectations: after a large investment in cultural creation is it not justifiable to aspire to reach the largest possible audience?"
Book Synopsis Social Theories of the Press by : Hanno Hardt
Download or read book Social Theories of the Press written by Hanno Hardt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword / James W. Carey Preface 1 Mass Communication Research and Society: An Introduction 1 2 Communication and Change: Karl Marx on Press Freedom 19 3 The Nerves of Society: Albert Schaffle on Symbolic Communication 43 4 The News of Society: Karl Knies on Communication and Transportation 67 5 The Linkages of Society: Karl Bucher on Commerce and the Press 85 6 The Mirrors of Society: Ferdinand Tonnies on the Press and Public Opinion 107 7 The Conscience of Society: Max Weber on Journalism and Responsibility 127 8 The "American Science" of Society: Albion Small, Edward Ross, and William Sumner on Communication and the Press 143 9 Communication and Social Thought: Decentering the Discourse of Mass Communication Research 169 Notes and References 185 Index 203 About the Author 211.
Book Synopsis The Business of Sustainability by : Chris Laszlo
Download or read book The Business of Sustainability written by Chris Laszlo and published by Berkshire Publishing Group. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Business of Sustainability is a core resource for policy makers, members of the development community, entrepreneurs, and corporate executives, as well as business and economics students and their professors. It contains rich analysis of how sustainability is being factored into industries across the globe, with enlightening case studies of businesses serving as agents of change. Contributing authors provide a groundbreaking body of research-based knowledge. They explain that the concept of sustainability is being re-framed to be positive about business instead of being tied to the old notion of a trade-off between business and society (that is, if business wins, society and the environment must lose), and they explore how economic development can contribute to building our common future.
Book Synopsis Computational Social Science by : Wei Luo
Download or read book Computational Social Science written by Wei Luo and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected papers from the International Conference on New Computational Social Science, focusing on the following five aspects: Big data acquisition and analysis, Integration of qualitative research and quantitative research, Sociological Internet experiment research, Application of ABM simulation method in Sociology Research, Research and development of new social computing tools. With the rapid development of information technology, especially sweeping progress in the Internet of things, cloud computing, social networks, social media and big data, social computing, as a data-intensive science, is an emerging field that leverages the capacity to collect and analyze data with an unprecedented breadth, depth and scale. It represents a new computing paradigm and an interdisciplinary field of research and application. A broad comprehension of major topics involved in social computing is important for both scholars and practitioners. This proceedings presents and discusses key concepts and analyzes the state-of-the-art of the field. The conference not only gave insights on social computing, but also affords conduit for future research in the field. Social computing has two distinct trends: One is on the social science issues, such as computational social science, computational sociology, social network analysis, etc; The other is on the use of computational techniques. Finally some new challenges ahead are summarized, including interdisciplinary cooperation and training, big data sharing for scientific data mashups, and privacy protect.
