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:
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... symbolic hierarchies. It is onlyby attemptingto understand thechanging practices interdependencies and power balances ofculture specialistswhich influence theproduction of specialist culture,in the restricted sense of cultural models ...
... symbolic hierarchies. It is onlyby attemptingto understand thechanging practices interdependencies and power balances ofculture specialistswhich influence theproduction of specialist culture,in the restricted sense of cultural models ...
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... directattention totheact of naming asanimportant strategy of groups engaged in struggleswith other groups;theuseof new termsbyoutsider groups who haveaninterest in destabilizing existing symbolic hierarchies to produce a reclassification ...
... directattention totheact of naming asanimportant strategy of groups engaged in struggleswith other groups;theuseof new termsbyoutsider groups who haveaninterest in destabilizing existing symbolic hierarchies to produce a reclassification ...
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Mike Featherstone. in destabilizing existing symbolic hierarchies to produce a reclassification of the field more in line with their own interests: the conditions which are breaking downthebarriers between subfields oftheartsand academic ...
Mike Featherstone. in destabilizing existing symbolic hierarchies to produce a reclassification of the field more in line with their own interests: the conditions which are breaking downthebarriers between subfields oftheartsand academic ...
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... symbols of theselifestyles. There is lessinterestin constructingacoherent style than in playingwith, and expanding,the ... symbolic hierarchies, andtheplayback of cultures. A similar argument can bemadewith reference totheterm 'lifestyle ...
... symbols of theselifestyles. There is lessinterestin constructingacoherent style than in playingwith, and expanding,the ... symbolic hierarchies, andtheplayback of cultures. A similar argument can bemadewith reference totheterm 'lifestyle ...
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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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