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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... range of goods. Visions of abundance became associated with free of movement and social mobility and attached toparticular symbolicand actual places,with 'America' becomingthekey example from the final decadesof the nineteenth century ...
... range of goods. Visions of abundance became associated with free of movement and social mobility and attached toparticular symbolicand actual places,with 'America' becomingthekey example from the final decadesof the nineteenth century ...
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... range oflocal inflectionsaround theworld. The Chinese example suggests an interesting sociology of knowledge account ofthereception of postmodern. A process, which was incidentallyfurthered in its earlierphasebythe regular visitsof ...
... range oflocal inflectionsaround theworld. The Chinese example suggests an interesting sociology of knowledge account ofthereception of postmodern. A process, which was incidentallyfurthered in its earlierphasebythe regular visitsof ...
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... range of cultural objects, experiences and practices which theorists areadducing and labelling postmodern, before we candecide on its politicalpedigree ordismiss itasmerely a short swingof the pendulum. Inthefirst placethe broad rangeof ...
... range of cultural objects, experiences and practices which theorists areadducing and labelling postmodern, before we candecide on its politicalpedigree ordismiss itasmerely a short swingof the pendulum. Inthefirst placethe broad rangeof ...
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... range of meanings. Common to them all isthecentralityof culture. In the most restricted sense,modernism pointsto the styles weassociatewith the artisticmovements whichoriginated around the turnofthe century and which have dominated the ...
... range of meanings. Common to them all isthecentralityof culture. In the most restricted sense,modernism pointsto the styles weassociatewith the artisticmovements whichoriginated around the turnofthe century and which have dominated the ...
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... range of goods, then from the perspective of some twentiethcentury neoMarxists this development isregarded as producinggreater opportunities for controlled arid manipulated consumption. The expansion of capitalist production, especially ...
... range of goods, then from the perspective of some twentiethcentury neoMarxists this development isregarded as producinggreater opportunities for controlled arid manipulated consumption. The expansion of capitalist production, especially ...
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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