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Author : Peter Kenneth Lunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780335096718
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (967 download)
Download or read book Mass Consumption and Personal Identity written by Peter Kenneth Lunt and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helga Dittmar
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135420157
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-Being written by Helga Dittmar and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advertising, materialism and consumption are central aspects of contemporary Western culture. We are bombarded with idealised images of the perfect body, desirable consumer goods, and affluent lifestyles, yet psychology is only just beginning to take account of the profound influence these consumer culture ideals have on individuals’ sense of identity and worth. Consumer Culture, Identity, and Well-Being documents the negative psychological impact consumer culture can have on how individuals view themselves and on their emotional welfare. It looks at the social psychological dimensions of having, buying and wanting material goods, as well as the pursuit of media-hyped appearance ideals. In particular, it focuses on: the purchasing of material goods as a means of expressing and seeking identity, and the negative consequences of this psychological buying motivations in conventional buying environments and on the Internet the unrealistic socio-cultural beauty ideals embodied by idealized models. Throughout, different approaches from social psychology are integrated, such as self-completion, self-discrepancy and value theory, to create a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding the impact of internalising core consumer culture ideals on how individuals see themselves and the implications this has for their psychological and physical health. This book is of interest to anybody who wants to find out more about the psychological effects of living in modern consumer societies on children, adolescents, and adults. More specifically, it will be of interest to students and researchers in social psychology, sociology, media studies, communication and other social sciences, as well as to psychologists, health workers, and practitioners interested in the topics of identity, consumption pathologies, body image, and body-related behaviours.
Author : Peter Kenneth Lunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780335096725
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (967 download)
Download or read book Mass Consumption and Personal Identity written by Peter Kenneth Lunt and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lizabeth Cohen
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307555364
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book A Consumers' Republic written by Lizabeth Cohen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life. Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the American Dream. Material goods came to embody the promise of America, and the power of consumers to purchase everything from vacuum cleaners to convertibles gave rise to the power of citizens to purchase political influence and effect social change. Yet despite undeniable successes and unprecedented affluence, mass consumption also fostered economic inequality and the fracturing of society along gender, class, and racial lines. In charting the complex legacy of our “Consumers’ Republic” Lizabeth Cohen has written a bold, encompassing, and profoundly influential book.
Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0631156054
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Material Culture and Mass Consumerism written by Daniel Miller and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997-12-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring materialism and social relationships in modern culture Material Culture and Mass Consumption offers an in-depth exploration of objects, objectification, ideology, and materialism in modern society. Drawing from Hegel, Marx, Munn, and Simmel, the discussion delves into the physicality of the material world and attempts to understand materialism as a form of cultural expression. Targeting mass production as the root of mass consumption, rather than the result, this book positions material goods at odds with genuine social interaction and questions these relationships from the abstract to the intensely specific.
Author : Marie Moran
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473911079
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)
Download or read book Identity and Capitalism written by Marie Moran and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a splendid book that dispels myths about ′identity′ and presents a cultural-materialist case for the study of such keywords and their preoccupations under the hegemony of neoliberal capitalism." - Professor Jim McGuigan, Loughborough University ′Identity’, particularly as it is elaborated in the associated categories of ‘personal’ and ‘social’ identity, is a relatively novel concept in western thought, politics and culture. The explosion of interest in the notion of identity across popular, political and academic domains of practice since the 1960s does not represent the simple popularisation of an older term, as is widely assumed, but rather, the invention of an idea. Identity and Capitalism explores the emergence and evolution of the idea of identity in the cultural, political and social contexts of contemporary capitalist societies. Against the common supposition that identity always mattered, this book shows that what we now think of routinely as ‘personal identity’ actually only emerged with the explosion of consumption in the late-twentieth century. It also makes the case that what we now think of as different social and political ‘identities’ only came to be framed as such with the emergence of identity politics and new social movements in the political landscapes of capitalist societies in the 60s and 70s. Marie Moran provides an important new exploration of the articulation of the idea of identity to the social logic of capitalism, from the ‘organised capitalism’ of the mid-twentieth century, up to and including the neoliberal capitalism that prevails today. Drawing on the work of Raymond Williams, the cultural materialist approach developed here provides an original means of addressing the political debates about the value of identity in contemporary capitalist societies.
Author : Steven Miles
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761952152
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (521 download)
Download or read book Consumerism written by Steven Miles and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-08-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to the historical and theoretical foundations of consumerism. It then moves on to examine the experience of consumption in the areas of space and place, technology, fashion, `popular' music and sport. Throughout, the author brings a critical perspective to bear upon the subject, thus providing a reliable and stimulating guide to a complex and many-sided field.
Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134843119
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Acknowledging Consumption written by Daniel Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-20 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-disciplinary overview providing new theories, critical analyses and the latest reasearch on this very fashionable topic. Includes chapters on consumption studies in anthropology, economics, history, sociology and many more areas.
Author : Maureen O'Dougherty
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822328940
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Consumption Intensified written by Maureen O'Dougherty and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThis work traces ways in which consumer culture defined the Brazilian middle class during the 1980s-1990s./div
Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415242691
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Consumption: Disciplinary approaches to consumption written by Daniel Miller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jukka Groncow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136604928
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Ordinary Consumption written by Jukka Groncow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sociology of consumption has concentrated unduly on the more spectacular and visual aspects of contemporary consumer behaviour, thereby constructing an unbalanced and misleading view. This collection emphasises ordinary rather than extraordinary items, routine and repetitive behaviour rather than conscious decision-making. It studies practical contexts of use rather than decisions to purchase and analyses collective identification rather than personal identity. Each essay argues one or more of these points, for the most part using new empirical material from several different national contexts. The topics analysed include shopping in Taiwan, second-home ownership in France, environmental considerations concerning food choice in Denmark, the take up of new domestic technologies in Finland and kitchen design in England. Key concepts like tradition, routine and habit are clarified and new conceptual distinctions are made, with the book defending theoretical approaches deriving from Simmel, Weber, Durkheim and Bourdieu. Ordinary Consumption promotes a distinctive approach to the understanding of the central practices of consumer society, it is a book with a controversial message, one which will be a source of debate about the appropriate agenda for future research.
Author : Americus Reed II
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788117735
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Identity Theory in Marketing written by Americus Reed II and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Research on Identity Theory in Marketing features cutting-edge research that delves into the origins and consequences of identity loyalty and organizes these insights around five basic identity principles that span nearly every consumer marketing subdomain. This Handbook is a comprehensive and state of the art treatment of identity and marketing: An authoritative and practical guide for academics, brand managers, marketers, public policy advocates and even intellectually curious consumers.
Author : Magnus Boström
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666902454
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)
Download or read book The Social Life of Unsustainable Mass Consumption written by Magnus Boström and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Life of Unsustainable Mass Consumption draws on a variety of theories and research to contribute to our understanding of unsustainable mass consumption. It addresses the role of identities, social relations, interactions, belonging, and status comparison, and how perceived time scarcity is both a cause and an effect of consumption. It examines the power of consumer norms and how overconsumption is normalized and shows how consumption is embedded in the time-space arrangements of everyday life. Magnus Boström contextualizes such drivers within the larger institutional and infrastructural forces underlying mass consumption, including the economy, growth politics, and the problematic promises of consumer culture. Boström further draws on lessons from lived experiments of consuming less and discuss how insights about the flaws of consumer culture can help shape a growing critique and countermovement – a collective detox from consumerism.
Author : Magnus Boström
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190629037
Total Pages : 953 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism written by Magnus Boström and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 953 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.
Author : Penny Sparke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136474099
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Design and Culture written by Penny Sparke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of An Introduction to Design and Culture has been revised and updated throughout to include issues of globalization, sustainability and digital/interactive design. New for this edition is a chapter which covers key changes in design culture. Design culture has changed dramatically in the 21st century, the designer-hero is now much less in evidence and design has become much more interdisciplinary. Drawing on a wealth of mass-produced artefacts, images and environments including sewing machines, cars, televisions, clothes, electronic and branded goods and exhibitions, author Penny Sparke shows how design has helped to shape and reflect our social and cultural development. This introduction to the development of modern (and postmodern) design is ideal for undergraduate students.
Author : Rosalind H. Williams
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520043558
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Dream Worlds, Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth-century France written by Rosalind H. Williams and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Tanner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137308508
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Vanity: 21st Century Selves written by C. Tanner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role does 'vanity' play in the lives of 21st century subjects? Exploring a range of fields including public health, information technology, media studies and feminist approaches to the body and beauty, this book offers a broad analysis of how 'vanity' shapes contemporary Western societies and its understandings of selfhood.
