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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... Western societies, butalso globally too.According toa global study from the World Institute for Development Economics Research ofthe United Nations the richest1 per centofthe world'spopulation owns40percent ofthe planet's wealth. The ...
... Western societies, butalso globally too.According toa global study from the World Institute for Development Economics Research ofthe United Nations the richest1 per centofthe world'spopulation owns40percent ofthe planet's wealth. The ...
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... Western economies may wellbe obsessed witha 'growth fetish',yet itishard to imagineareturn toa 'stationary state'or move toa 'postgrowth society'as advocatedinthe pastby John Stuart Mill, MaynardKeynes and others(Hamilton, 2003) ...
... Western economies may wellbe obsessed witha 'growth fetish',yet itishard to imagineareturn toa 'stationary state'or move toa 'postgrowth society'as advocatedinthe pastby John Stuart Mill, MaynardKeynes and others(Hamilton, 2003) ...
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... Western debateson postmodernism, whichwere useful background to the discussions inChina, but also intermsofthe chapters on consumerculture. Thedramatic growth ofthe Chinese economy since the 1990shas encouragedthe development of ...
... Western debateson postmodernism, whichwere useful background to the discussions inChina, but also intermsofthe chapters on consumerculture. Thedramatic growth ofthe Chinese economy since the 1990shas encouragedthe development of ...
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... Western world'(Gott, 1986). Butitisall to easy tosee postmodernism asa reactionary, mechanical reflection of social changes and to blame the academics and intellectuals for coining the termas part of their distinction games. Eventhough ...
... Western world'(Gott, 1986). Butitisall to easy tosee postmodernism asa reactionary, mechanical reflection of social changes and to blame the academics and intellectuals for coining the termas part of their distinction games. Eventhough ...
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... Western societies we needto movebeyondthe falseoppositions of foundationalismand relativism, of single epistemology and plural ontology, and investigate specific social and cultural processes andthe dynamics of the productionof ...
... Western societies we needto movebeyondthe falseoppositions of foundationalismand relativism, of single epistemology and plural ontology, and investigate specific social and cultural processes andthe dynamics of the productionof ...
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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