Consumer Culture and PostmodernismSAGE, 2007 M07 11 - 232 pages The first edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put ′consumer culture′ on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. This expanded new edition includes:
The result is a book that shakes the boundaries of debate, from one of the foremost writers on culture and postmodernism of the present day. |
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... University SERIES EDITORIAL BOARD Roy Boyne, University ofDurham Mike Hepworth, University ofAberdeen Scott Lash, Goldsmiths College, University of London Roland Robertson, University ofAberdeen Bryan S.Turner, National Universityof ...
... University SERIES EDITORIAL BOARD Roy Boyne, University ofDurham Mike Hepworth, University ofAberdeen Scott Lash, Goldsmiths College, University of London Roland Robertson, University ofAberdeen Bryan S.Turner, National Universityof ...
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... University in February 1988,Trent University, Peterborough, OntarioinMarch 1988and at the Amalfi European Prize for Sociology Conferencein Amalfi, Italy in May 1988. A further versionwas given atthe Centro de Investigacao yEstudos de ...
... University in February 1988,Trent University, Peterborough, OntarioinMarch 1988and at the Amalfi European Prize for Sociology Conferencein Amalfi, Italy in May 1988. A further versionwas given atthe Centro de Investigacao yEstudos de ...
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... University of Tilburg in December 1985.It appeared in Ernst Meijer (ed.), Everyday Life: Leisure andCulture, Tilburg: Dutch Centre for Leisure Studies, 1987and in Theory, Culture& Society,4(1), 1987. 7. 'City Culturesand ...
... University of Tilburg in December 1985.It appeared in Ernst Meijer (ed.), Everyday Life: Leisure andCulture, Tilburg: Dutch Centre for Leisure Studies, 1987and in Theory, Culture& Society,4(1), 1987. 7. 'City Culturesand ...
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... universities, hospitals etc., along withlowratesofincome taxandthe promise of economic growth.One consequence has beenthe widening of the gap betweenthe richand the poor within Western societies, butalso globally too.According toa ...
... universities, hospitals etc., along withlowratesofincome taxandthe promise of economic growth.One consequence has beenthe widening of the gap betweenthe richand the poor within Western societies, butalso globally too.According toa ...
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... universities and can work in English (unlike their national counterparts), as well as being at home moving around the circuit ofglobal cities.They also helpfuelthearmyof migratingservice workers (cleaners, cooks, nanniesand sex workers ...
... universities and can work in English (unlike their national counterparts), as well as being at home moving around the circuit ofglobal cities.They also helpfuelthearmyof migratingservice workers (cleaners, cooks, nanniesand sex workers ...
Contents
Towardsa Sociology ofPostmodern Culture 4 Cultural Change and Social Practice | |
The Aestheticization of Everyday Life | |
Lifestyle and Consumer Culture 7 City Culturesand Postmodern Lifestyles 8 Consumer Culture and Global Disorder 9 Common Culture or Uncommo... | |
The Globalization of Diversity | |
Index | |
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