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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... traditional order and implies the progressive economic and administrative rationalization and differentiation of the social world (Weber, Tönnies, Simmel): processes which brought into being the modern capitalistindustrial state and ...
... traditional order and implies the progressive economic and administrative rationalization and differentiation of the social world (Weber, Tönnies, Simmel): processes which brought into being the modern capitalistindustrial state and ...
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... traditional socialstructures and values. Modernizationtheory isalsoused to refertothestages ofsocial developmentwhich arebased upon industrialization, shegrowthof science and technology, the modern nation state, the capitalist world ...
... traditional socialstructures and values. Modernizationtheory isalsoused to refertothestages ofsocial developmentwhich arebased upon industrialization, shegrowthof science and technology, the modern nation state, the capitalist world ...
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... modernism) in the cultural realm. ForBell modernismisa corrosive force, unleashing an adversarial culturewhich in conjunction withthe hedonistic culture ofmass consumption subverts traditional bourgeois values and the Puritan ethic. Bell's.
... modernism) in the cultural realm. ForBell modernismisa corrosive force, unleashing an adversarial culturewhich in conjunction withthe hedonistic culture ofmass consumption subverts traditional bourgeois values and the Puritan ethic. Bell's.
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Mike Featherstone. consumption subverts traditional bourgeois values and the Puritan ethic. Bell's analysis is based on the notion of the disjunction of the three realms, the polity,cultureand economy, sothereisno senseinlooking forabase ...
Mike Featherstone. consumption subverts traditional bourgeois values and the Puritan ethic. Bell's analysis is based on the notion of the disjunction of the three realms, the polity,cultureand economy, sothereisno senseinlooking forabase ...
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... Traditional formsof associationin thefamily and privatelife aswellas the promise of happinessand fulfilment, the 'yearningfor a totallydifferent other' which thebestproducts of highculture strovefor,are presented as yielding toan ...
... Traditional formsof associationin thefamily and privatelife aswellas the promise of happinessand fulfilment, the 'yearningfor a totallydifferent other' which thebestproducts of highculture strovefor,are presented as yielding toan ...
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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