Constructing The New Consumer Society

Author : John Holmwood,Hilary Radner,Gerhard Schulze,Pekka Sulkunen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349253371

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Constructing the New Consumer Society by John Holmwood,Hilary Radner,Gerhard Schulze,Pekka Sulkunen Pdf

This book argues that the coming of the 'a new consumerism' in the affluent societies marks a distinct phase of modernity. Limits of production no longer confine consumption to what is necessary or instrumental. Demands for increasing production no longer shape ideology and culture as they did previously. Important contemporary themes of morality, the body, citizenship and inequality are here placed in a new theoretical light. The book provides examples of new codes of happiness in consuming products, culture and entertainment. Issues of nutrition, consumer policy, environmental risk and health are discussed in the light of these new codes.

Author : Sulkunen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0333631315

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Construction of the New Consumer by Sulkunen Pdf

This work argues that the coming of a new consumerism in the affluent societies marks a distinct phase of modernity. Limits of production no longer confine consumption to what is necessarty or instrumental. Demands for increasing production no longer shape ideology and culture as they did previously.

Author : Elaine L Ritch,Julie McColl
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781839095566

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New Perspectives on Critical Marketing and Consumer Society by Elaine L Ritch,Julie McColl Pdf

Digital communication has altered the flow of global information,evolved consumer values and changed consumption practices worldwide.New Perspectives on Critical Marketing and Consumer Society provides an illuminating, challenging and thought-provoking guide for all upper-level students of marketing,branding and consumer behaviour.

Author : Neva R. Goodwin,Frank Ackerman,David Kiron
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781597267908

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The Consumer Society by Neva R. Goodwin,Frank Ackerman,David Kiron Pdf

The developed countries, particularly the United States, consume a disproportionate share of the world's resources, yet high and rising levels of consumption do not necessarily lead to greater satisfaction, security, or well-being, even for affluent consumers.The Consumer Society provides brief summaries of the most important and influential writings on the environmental, moral, and social implications of a consumer society and consumer lifestyles. Each section consists of ten to twelve summaries of critical writings in a specific area, with an introductory essay that outlines the state of knowledge in that area and indicates where further research is needed. Sections cover: Scope and Definition Consumption in the Affluent Society Family, Gender, and Socialization The History of Consumerism Foundations of Economic Theories of Consumption Critiques and Alternatives in Economic Theory Perpetuating Consumer Culture: Media, Advertising, and Wants Creation Consumption and the Environment Globalization and Consumer Culture Visions of an Alternative This book is the second volume in the Frontier Issues in Economic Thought series, which provides surveys of the most significant writings in emergent areas of economics -- an invaluable aid in fast-growing fields where genuine new ground is being broken. The series brings together economists, sociologists, psychologists, and philosophers to develop analyses that challenge and enrich the dominant neoclassical paradigm.The Consumer Society is an essential guide to and summary of the literature of consumption and will be of interest to anyone concerned with the deeper economic, social, and ethical implications of consumerism.

Author : Mark Liechty
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691221748

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Suitably Modern by Mark Liechty Pdf

Suitably Modern traces the growth of a new middle class in Kathmandu as urban Nepalis harness the modern cultural resources of mass media and consumer goods to build modern identities and pioneer a new sociocultural space in one of the world's "least developed countries." Since Nepal's "opening" in the 1950s, a new urban population of bureaucrats, service personnel, small business owners, and others have worked to make a space between Kathmandu's old (and still privileged) elites and its large (and growing) urban poor. Mark Liechty looks at the cultural practices of this new middle class, examining such phenomena as cinema and video viewing, popular music, film magazines, local fashion systems, and advertising. He explores three interactive and mutually constitutive ethnographic terrains: a burgeoning local consumer culture, a growing mass-mediated popular imagination, and a recently emerging youth culture. He shows how an array of local cultural narratives--stories of honor, value, prestige, and piety--flow in and around global narratives of "progress," modernity, and consumer fulfillment. Urban Nepalis simultaneously adopt and critique these narrative strands, braiding them into local middle-class cultural life. Building on both Marxian and Weberian understandings of class, this study moves beyond them to describe the lived experience of "middle classness"--how class is actually produced and reproduced in everyday practice. It considers how people speak and act themselves into cultural existence, carving out real and conceptual spaces in which to produce class culture.

Author : Prof Dr Alejandro Néstor García Martínez
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472443175

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Being Human in a Consumer Society by Prof Dr Alejandro Néstor García Martínez Pdf

This book offers a new perspective on sociological studies of the consumer society, introducing neglected normative questions relating to the good life and human flourishing - subjects more commonly discussed in fields of moral, political, and social philosophy. With attention to a wide range of subjects, including postemotional law and responsibility, dehumanised consumption and prosumerism, fashion, embodiment, conspicuous consumption, and sustainability, this book analyzes the structural and cultural transformations that can be identified in consumer society. It also offers a critical view of whether consumption is leading to an increased isolation, individualization or commodification of human beings, suggesting an analytical framework for understanding consumer culture and human praxis.

Author : Colin Campbell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030836818

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Consumption and Consumer Society by Colin Campbell Pdf

This collection of high quality, largely previously published essays, analyses a range of controversies in the field of the sociology of culture and consumption. Campbell made a major contribution to the development of this field and he has a clear and coherent theoretical position which he employs to comment on interesting disputes among scholars seeking to understand consumer culture. Containing a brand new expansive essay reflecting on consumption in the age of a pandemic and drawing out some of the conceptual and practical implications of the relationship between wants and needs, science and norms, this synthesis will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers of consumption, consumer and cultural sociology.

Author : Maurie J Cohen,Halina Szejnwald Brown,Philip J Vergragt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317246213

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Social Change and the Coming of Post-consumer Society by Maurie J Cohen,Halina Szejnwald Brown,Philip J Vergragt Pdf

Consumer society is an unquestionably complex social construct. However, after decades of unremitting dominance there are signs emerging that it is starting to falter, both as a coherent and durable system of social organization and as a strategy for societal advancement. Debates concerning how we can transition beyond present energy- and materials-intensive consumer society are beginning to gain greater salience. Social Change and the Coming of Post-Consumer Society aims to develop more complete appreciation of the relevant processes of social change and to identify effective interventions that could enable a transition to supersede consumer society. Bringing together leading interdisciplinary experts on social change, the book identifies and analyzes several ongoing small- and modest-scale social experiments. Possibilities for macro-scale change from the interlinked perspectives of culture, economics, finance, and governance are then explored. These contributions expose the systemic problems that are emblematic of the current condition of consumer society, specifically the unsustainability of prevailing consumption practices and lifestyles and the persistence of inequalities. These observations are summarized and extended in the final chapter of the book. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable consumption, sustainability transitions, environmental sociology, and sustainable development.

Author : John Clarke,Janet Newman,Nick Smith,Elizabeth Vidler,Louise Westmarland
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847878649

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Creating Citizen-Consumers by John Clarke,Janet Newman,Nick Smith,Elizabeth Vidler,Louise Westmarland Pdf

`This is an illuminating and topical study, which skilfully blends together theoretical and empirical analysis in search of the "citizen-consumer". It should become a key text for all with an interest in public service reform and the "choice" agenda, as well as consumerism and citizenship′ - Ruth Lister, Professor of Social Policy, University of Loughborough Political, popular and academic debates have swirled around the notion of the citizen as a consumer of public services, with public service reform increasingly geared towards a consumer society. This innovative book draws on original research with those people in the front-line of the reforms - staff, managers and users of public services - to explore their responses to this turn to consumerism. Creating Citizen-Consumers explores a range of theoretical, political, policy and practice issues that arise in the shift towards consumerism. It draws on recent controversies about choice to examine the tensions of modernising public services to meet the demands of a consumer society. The book offers a fresh and challenging understanding of the relationships between people and services, and argues for a model based on interdependence, respect and partnership rather than choice. This original book makes a distinctive contribution to debates about the future of public services. It will be of interest to those studying social policy, cultural studies, public administration and management across the social sciences, as well as for those working in public services. John Clarke is a Professor of Social Policy at the Open University. Janet Newman is a Professor of Social Policy at the Open University. Nick Smith is a Research Officer in the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent. Elizabeth Vidler is a Project Officer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. Louise Westmarland is a Lecturer in Criminology at the Open University.

Author : Robert G. Dunn
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781592138708

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Identifying Consumption by Robert G. Dunn Pdf

Identifying Consumption illustrates how an individual’s buying habits are shaped by the dynamics of the consumer marketplace—and thus how consumption and identity inform each other. Robert Dunn brings together the various theories of spending and develops a mode of analysis concentrating on the individual subjectivity of consumption. By doing so, he addresses how we spend and its relationship with status and lifestyle. Dunn provides a comprehensive guide to the study of modern consumer behavior before summarizing and critiquing the major theories of consumption. At this juncture, he proposes a method of analysis that focuses on the significance of status and lifestyle in social relations that can help explain how the consumer marketplace is shaped. He concludes by raising issues about different ways of consuming and the relationship between consumption and identity.

Author : Elaine L. Ritch,Julie McColl
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781839095542

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New Perspectives on Critical Marketing and Consumer Society by Elaine L. Ritch,Julie McColl Pdf

Digital communication has altered the flow of global information, evolved consumer values and changed consumption practices worldwide. New Perspectives on Critical Marketing and Consumer Society provides an illuminating, challenging and thought providing guide for all upper-level students of marketing, branding and consumer behaviour.

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745655826

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Consuming Life by Zygmunt Bauman Pdf

With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals become simultaneously the promoters of commodities and the commodities they promote. They are, at one and the same time, the merchandise and the marketer, the goods and the travelling salespeople. They all inhabit the same social space that is customarily described by the term the market. The test they need to pass in order to acquire the social prizes they covet requires them to recast themselves as products capable of drawing attention to themselves. This subtle and pervasive transformation of consumers into commodities is the most important feature of the society of consumers. It is the hidden truth, the deepest and most closely guarded secret, of the consumer society in which we now live. In this new book Zygmunt Bauman examines the impact of consumerist attitudes and patterns of conduct on various apparently unconnected aspects of social life politics and democracy, social divisions and stratification, communities and partnerships, identity building, the production and use of knowledge, and value preferences. The invasion and colonization of the web of human relations by the worldviews and behavioural patterns inspired and shaped by commodity markets, and the sources of resentment, dissent and occasional resistance to the occupying forces, are the central themes of this brilliant new book by one of the worlds most original and insightful social thinkers.

Author : Lorne Tepperman,Nicole Meredith
Publisher : Rock's Mills Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1772442046

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Consumer Society by Lorne Tepperman,Nicole Meredith Pdf

This ground-breaking book provides the clearest, most comprehensive examination of consumerism and consumer behaviour currently available. Taking an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach and drawing on insights from a wide range of fields, including sociology, psychology, market research, economics, history, and philosophy, the authors consider the origins, current state, and possible future of today's consumer society. Lucid, extensively researched, and carefully crafted, Consumer Society is an indispensable introduction to the fundamental concepts and issues that shape the world we live in. Key topics covered in Consumer Society include: The agents of socialization that introduce individuals to their roles in such a society-parents and other family members, the education system, and the media (including the art, science, and business of advertising) The growing power of brands in today's consumer society Social categories and the consumer behaviours associated with them, including wealthy people and low-income people; men and women; young people and seniors; immigrants and inhabitants of the Global South. Emerging issues in consumer behaviour and the sociology of consumerism, including bending and breaking the rules of the consumer society; buying as a means of social protest; and the future of the consumer society in the face of such challenges as growing inequality, climate change, and resource depletion. A variety of learning resources add value and perspective, including self-tests, lists of key terms, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter.

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473994546

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The Consumer Society by Jean Baudrillard Pdf

Jean Baudrillard's classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book makes a vital contribution to current debates on consumption. The book includes Baudrillard's most organized discussion of mass media culture, the meaning of leisure, and anomie in affluent society. A chapter on the body demonstrates Baudrillard's extraordinary prescience for flagging vital subjects in contemporary culture long before others. This English translation begins with a new introductory essay.

Author : Greg Whitwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Consumers
ISBN : 0869140582

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Making the Market by Greg Whitwell Pdf