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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... emotional and aesthetic satisfactions derived from consumer experiences, not merely in terms of some logic of psychological manipulation. Rather sociology shouldseek tomove beyond thenegative evaluation of consumer pleasuresinherited ...
... emotional and aesthetic satisfactions derived from consumer experiences, not merely in terms of some logic of psychological manipulation. Rather sociology shouldseek tomove beyond thenegative evaluation of consumer pleasuresinherited ...
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... emotional control and decontrol, instrumental calculation and hedonism – which were formerly threatening to theimperativeto uphold aconsistent identitystructure and deny transgressions. Consuming. dreams,images. and. pleasure. As Raymond ...
... emotional control and decontrol, instrumental calculation and hedonism – which were formerly threatening to theimperativeto uphold aconsistent identitystructure and deny transgressions. Consuming. dreams,images. and. pleasure. As Raymond ...
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... emotional explorationand relationship building (cf. Bell's 1976 discussionof the paradox ofmodern consumersocieties: tobea 'Puritan byday and a playboy bynight'). Thisfractionwithin thenew middle class,the cultural specialistsand ...
... emotional explorationand relationship building (cf. Bell's 1976 discussionof the paradox ofmodern consumersocieties: tobea 'Puritan byday and a playboy bynight'). Thisfractionwithin thenew middle class,the cultural specialistsand ...
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... , especially inthe middle classes, who weredeveloping bodily and emotional controlsas partofcivilizing processes(Elias, 1978b,1982), sites ofcultural disorder suchasfairs,the city, the slum, the seaside resort, become the source of.
... , especially inthe middle classes, who weredeveloping bodily and emotional controlsas partofcivilizing processes(Elias, 1978b,1982), sites ofcultural disorder suchasfairs,the city, the slum, the seaside resort, become the source of.
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... emotional experiences, it is importanttostress that this does notrepresent the eclipseof controls. Itneeds discipline and control to strollthrough goodson display,to lookand not snatch, tomove casuallywithout interrupting the flow ...
... emotional experiences, it is importanttostress that this does notrepresent the eclipseof controls. Itneeds discipline and control to strollthrough goodson display,to lookand not snatch, tomove casuallywithout interrupting the flow ...
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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