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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... Lifestyle and Consumer Culture 7 City Culturesand Postmodern Lifestyles 8 Consumer Culture and Global Disorder 9 Common Culture or Uncommon Cultures? 10 The Globalization of Diversity 11 Modernityandthe CulturalQuestion Bibliography ...
... Lifestyle and Consumer Culture 7 City Culturesand Postmodern Lifestyles 8 Consumer Culture and Global Disorder 9 Common Culture or Uncommon Cultures? 10 The Globalization of Diversity 11 Modernityandthe CulturalQuestion Bibliography ...
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... lifestyles with their emphasis upon youth, fitness and beauty to this group seemed plausible. This became explicitlyformulated inapaper entitled 'Ageing and Inequality: Consumer Culture andtheRedefinition of Middle Age'presented atthe ...
... lifestyles with their emphasis upon youth, fitness and beauty to this group seemed plausible. This became explicitlyformulated inapaper entitled 'Ageing and Inequality: Consumer Culture andtheRedefinition of Middle Age'presented atthe ...
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... lifestyle construction andbodily renewal became linkedto mobility: the promise of social mobility and personal transformation, along with the freedom of physical mobility, the capacity to moveinsearch of employment, leisure or new ...
... lifestyle construction andbodily renewal became linkedto mobility: the promise of social mobility and personal transformation, along with the freedom of physical mobility, the capacity to moveinsearch of employment, leisure or new ...
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... lifestyle advertising andbrand images ofeveryday consumer culture goods suchastrainers and jeans, turning hidden conditions of production into an ethicaland political issue (Benderand Greenwald,2003; Brecher and Costello, 1994; Klein ...
... lifestyle advertising andbrand images ofeveryday consumer culture goods suchastrainers and jeans, turning hidden conditions of production into an ethicaland political issue (Benderand Greenwald,2003; Brecher and Costello, 1994; Klein ...
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... lifestyles. The Forbes website hasa section on lifestyle with details of luxury homes (youcan take aphotographic tour ofthehomes offifteenof the world's richest people), most expensive cars, megayachts, most expensive private islands ...
... lifestyles. The Forbes website hasa section on lifestyle with details of luxury homes (youcan take aphotographic tour ofthehomes offifteenof the world's richest people), most expensive cars, megayachts, most expensive private islands ...
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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