Consumer Culture And Modernity

Author : Don Slater
Publisher : Polity
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745603033

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues, concepts and theories through which people have tried to understand consumer culture throughout the modern period, and puts the current state of thinking into a broader context. Thematically organized, the book shows how the central aspects of consumer culture - such as needs, choice, identity, status, alienation, objects, culture - have been debated within modern theories, from those of earlier thinkers such as Marx and Simmel to contemporary forms of post-structuralism and postmodernism. This approach introduces consumer culture as a subject which - far from being of narrow or recent interest - is intimately tied to the central issues of modern times and modern social thought. With its reviews of major theorists set within a full account of the development of the subject, this book should be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students in the many disciplines which now study consumer culture, including communications and cultural studies, anthropology and history.

Author : Don Slater
Publisher : Polity
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745603041

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues, concepts and theories through which people have tried to understand consumer culture throughout the modern period, and puts the current state of thinking into a broader context. Thematically organized, the book shows how the central aspects of consumer culture - such as needs, choice, identity, status, alienation, objects, culture - have been debated within modern theories, from those of earlier thinkers such as Marx and Simmel to contemporary forms of post-structuralism and postmodernism. This approach introduces consumer culture as a subject which - far from being of narrow or recent interest - is intimately tied to the central issues of modern times and modern social thought. With its reviews of major theorists set within a full account of the development of the subject, this book should be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students in the many disciplines which now study consumer culture, including communications and cultural studies, anthropology and history.

Author : Nita Mathur
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8132111273

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Consumer Culture, Modernity and Identity by Nita Mathur Pdf

This book offers analysis of articulation of consumer culture and modernity in everyday lives of people in a transnational framework. It pursues three broad themes: lifestyle choices and construction of modern identities; fashion and advertising; and subaltern concerns and moral subjectivities. It juxtaposes empirical studies with theoretical traditions in addressing questions such as: How do people imagine modernity and identity in consumer culture? What does modernity or ‘being modern’ mean to people in different societies? Are modernity and tradition antithetical to or develop an interface with each other? The chapters in the book trace manifestations and trajectories of consumer culture and modernity as they connect to develop a sense of renewed identity.

Author : Zahra Pamela Karimi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415781831

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Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran by Zahra Pamela Karimi Pdf

This book explores the transformation of home culture and domestic architecture in twentieth century Iran. While highlighting the role of architects and urban planners since the turn of the century, the book also studies the interplay between foreign influences, gender roles, consumer culture, and women's education as they intersect with taste, fashion, and interior design.

Author : Mike Featherstone
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849202329

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Consumer Culture and Postmodernism by Mike Featherstone Pdf

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: a fully revised preface that explores the developments in consumer culture since the first edition a major new chapter on ′Modernity and the Cultural Question′ an update on postmodernism and the development of contemporary theory after postmodernism an account of multiple and alternative modernities the challenges of consumer culture in Japan and China. 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.

Author : Joanne Entwistle,Don Slater
Publisher : Sage Publications
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761968369

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Consumer Culture by Joanne Entwistle,Don Slater Pdf

Author : Nita Mathur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Consumers
ISBN : 9351507939

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Consumer Culture, Modernity and Identity by Nita Mathur Pdf

'Consumer Culture, Modernity and Identity' offers analysis of articulation of consumer culture and modernity in everyday lives of people in a transnational framework. It pursues three broad themes: lifestyle and construction of modern identity; fashion and identity; and subaltern concerns and moral subjectivities. It juxtaposes empirical studies with theoretical traditions in addressing questions such as: How do people imagine modernity and identity in consumer culture? What does modernity or 'being modern' mean to people in different societies? Are modernity and tradition antithetical to or develop an interface with each other?

Author : Sam Binkley
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822339897

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Getting Loose by Sam Binkley Pdf

DIVExamines the changing character of American consumer culture in the 1960s, 70s, and late 20th century generally, driven by changing forms of identity, notably a "loosening" of the self, by which Binkley means to evoke a wide range of identity pr/div

Author : Mike Featherstone
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803984154

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Consumer Culture and Postmodernism by Mike Featherstone Pdf

Implicit within claims that society itself is in some sense postmodern is an argument about the priority of consumption as a determinant of everyday life. In this view, mass media advertising and market dynamics lead to a constant search for new fashions, new styles, new sensations and experiences. Material goods are consumed as `communicators'; they are valued as signifiers of taste and of lifestyle. This volume examines the viability of this portrait of contemporary society. Mike Featherstone explores the roots of consumer culture, how it is defined and differentiated and the extent to which it represents the arrival of a `postmodern' world. He examines the theories of consumption and postmodernism among contemporary social theorists such

Author : Barbara Sato
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 082233044X

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The New Japanese Woman by Barbara Sato Pdf

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Author : James P. Grehan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295801636

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Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth-Century Damascus by James P. Grehan Pdf

Damascus was for centuries a center of learning and commerce. Drawing on the city's dazzling literary tradition-a rich collection of poetry, chronicles, travel accounts, and biographical dictionaries-as well as on Islamic court records, James Grehan explores the material culture of premodern Damascus, reconstructing the economic infrastructure, social customs, and private consumer habits that dominated this cosmopolitan hub in the 1700s. He sketches a lively history of diet, furniture, fashion, and other aspects of daily life, providing an unusual and intimate account of the choices, constraints, and compromises that defined consumer behavior. Coffee, tobacco, and light firearms had arisen as new luxury items in preceding centuries, and Grehan traces the usage of such goods in order to get a picture of the overall standard of living in the premodern Middle East. He looks particularly at how wealth and poverty were defined and how consumption patterns expressed notions of taste, class, and power, illuminating the prominent role played by Damascus in shaping the economy and culture of the Middle East. In assessing the magnitude of social change in modern times, we have few benchmarks from the period preceding the onset of modernity in the nineteenth century. This informative study will make possible more precise cultural and economic comparisons between different parts of the world as it stood on the brink of a radically new economic and political order. The book's focus on a little-examined period and region will appeal to scholars and students of urban social history and Arab popular culture.

Author : Regina Lee Blaszczyk,Uwe Spiekermann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319507453

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Bright Modernity by Regina Lee Blaszczyk,Uwe Spiekermann Pdf

Color is a visible technology that invisibly connects so many puzzling aspects of modern Western consumer societies—research and development, making and selling, predicting fashion trends, and more. Building on Regina Lee Blaszczyk’s go-to history of the “color revolution” in the United States, this book explores further transatlantic and multidisciplinary dimensions of the topic. Covering history from the mid nineteenth century into the immediate past, it examines the relationship between color, commerce, and consumer societies in unfamiliar settings and in the company of new kinds of experts. Readers will learn about the early dye industry, the dynamic nomenclature for color, and efforts to standardize, understand, and educate the public about color. Readers will also encounter early food coloring, new consumer goods, technical and business innovations in print and on the silver screen, the interrelationship between gender and color, and color forecasting in the fashion industry.

Author : Mona Abaza
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047410478

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The Changing Consumer Cultures of Modern Egypt by Mona Abaza Pdf

In a collage of images the author attempts to convey the transformation of consumer culture and how it is related to the urban reshaping of the city of Cairo to meet with the demands of globalisation. Evidently Cairo ́s urban reshaping is taking place by pushing away the unwanted slums residents, which constitute the majority of the city ́s population.

Author : Peter Gurney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441120175

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The Making of Consumer Culture in Modern Britain by Peter Gurney Pdf

It is commonly accepted that the consumer is now centre stage in modern Britain, rather than the worker or producer. Consumer choice is widely regarded as the major source of self-definition and identity rather than productive activity. Politicians vie with each other to fashion their appeal to 'citizen-consumers'. When and how did these profound changes occur? Which historical alternatives were pushed to the margins in the process? In what ways did the everyday consumer practices and forms of consumer organising adopted by both middle and working-class men and women shape the outcomes? This study of the making of consumer culture in Britain since 1800 explores these questions, introduces students to major debates and cuts a distinctive path through this vibrant field. It suggests that the consumer culture that emerged during this period was shaped as much by political relationships as it was by economic and social factors.

Author : Rob Turnock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857717320

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Television and Consumer Culture by Rob Turnock Pdf

The radical expansion of television broadcasting in the post-war years and beyond both reflected and promoted a cultural revolution sweeping across British society. Reaching out to a mass audience for the first time, the new television industry made visible the transition from drab austerity and seeming cultural consensus to the brash, heady glitz and individualism of the new consumer age."Television and Consumer Culture" explores television's institutional, technological and programming developments during this period, revealing how genres as different as action adventure series, serious dramas, situation comedies and quiz and game shows simultaneously promoted both consumer culture and class conflict. Drawing on historical analysis and sociological theory, and looking at issues such as celebrity, scheduling, intimacy and sociability, Turnock argues that television during this era established and promoted itself as a culturally powerful force, a fact that has implications for the way that media power is understood to operate today.