The Unmanageable Consumer

Author : Yiannis Gabriel,Tim Lang
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847878328

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`This book was radically challenging when it was first published, and is only more so today as the concept of consumer collapses under the weight of its many meanings' - Madeleine Bunting, Columnist, The Guardian Western-style consumerism appears unstoppable. Yet it is has failed to deliver greater happiness and is now facing major environmental, population and political challenges. This book examines the key Western traditions of thinking about and being a consumer. Each chapter posits a consumer model with examples from the international community. Readers are invited to enter an exciting and radical analysis of contemporary consumerism which suggests that consumerism is fragile and consumers unpredictable. Updated with new material, this Second Edition looks at the impact of new technologies on consumerism and the consolidation of consumerism and 'consumer' language in spheres like education and health. The authors discuss the spread of consumerism to developing countries like India and the effect of demographic change and migration. The fallout from 9/11 and United States military hegemony is examined, as is the influence on consumerism of Islamic fundamentalism, the anti-globalization movement, environmental concerns and depleting natural resources. This book is of interest to advanced undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students taking courses on behaviour, buyer behaviour, customer behaviour, consumers and society and retailing. Any one interested in better understanding consumerism will also find this book a fascinating read.

Author : Yiannis Gabriel,Tim Lang
Publisher : SAGE Publications Ltd
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 080397745X

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Consumption and concepts of the consumer sit at the centre of numerous current debates - academic, political and environmental. This highly readable and stimulating book - a tour-de-force in the breadth of its coverage and analysis - shows how different traditions of thought have constructed different representations of the consumer. Each of these has its own coherence but rarely addresses alternative positions. A key concern of the authors is to identify, disentangle and juxtapose approaches to contemporary consumption which are seldom found in a single text. Yiannis Gabriel and Tim Lang present a number of distinctive portraits of the consumer - as Chooser; as Communicator; as Identity-seeker; as Explorer; as Hedo

Author : Yiannis Gabriel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Consumer behavior
ISBN : 1446213048

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The Unmanageable Consumer by Yiannis Gabriel Pdf

T̀his book was radically challenging when it was first published, and is only more so today as the concept of consumer collapses under the weight of its many meanings' - Madeleine Bunting, Columnist, The Guardian. This book examines the key Western traditions of thinking about and being a consumer. Each chapter focuses on a different consumer model and readers are invited to enter an exciting analysis of contemporary consumerism. Updated with new material, this Second Edition looks at the impact of new technology on consumerism and the consolidation of consumerism and c̀onsumer language in sph.

Author : Mickey W. Mantle,Ron Lichty
Publisher : Addison-Wesley
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780132981255

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Managing the Unmanageable by Mickey W. Mantle,Ron Lichty Pdf

“Mantle and Lichty have assembled a guide that will help you hire, motivate, and mentor a software development team that functions at the highest level. Their rules of thumb and coaching advice are great blueprints for new and experienced software engineering managers alike.” —Tom Conrad, CTO, Pandora “I wish I’d had this material available years ago. I see lots and lots of ‘meat’ in here that I’ll use over and over again as I try to become a better manager. The writing style is right on, and I love the personal anecdotes.” —Steve Johnson, VP, Custom Solutions, DigitalFish All too often, software development is deemed unmanageable. The news is filled with stories of projects that have run catastrophically over schedule and budget. Although adding some formal discipline to the development process has improved the situation, it has by no means solved the problem. How can it be, with so much time and money spent to get software development under control, that it remains so unmanageable? In Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams , Mickey W. Mantle and Ron Lichty answer that persistent question with a simple observation: You first must make programmers and software teams manageable. That is, you need to begin by understanding your people—how to hire them, motivate them, and lead them to develop and deliver great products. Drawing on their combined seventy years of software development and management experience, and highlighting the insights and wisdom of other successful managers, Mantle and Lichty provide the guidance you need to manage people and teams in order to deliver software successfully. Whether you are new to software management, or have already been working in that role, you will appreciate the real-world knowledge and practical tools packed into this guide.

Author : Peter Corrigan
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446238844

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The Sociology of Consumption by Peter Corrigan Pdf

This lucid introduction to the sociology of consumerism examines the relationship between production and consumption in late capitalist societies. The historical and theoretical discussion provides the student with the tools to examine key themes in the sociology of consumption. After a detailed historical overview of the advent of consumer society, Peter Corrigan examines theoretical accounts of consumption and consumer practice, including: Veblen and conspicuous consumption; Mary Douglas on the world of goods; Jean Baudrillard on the system of objects; and Pierre Bourdieu on cultural capital. This historical and theoretical discussion provides the student with the tools to examine key themes in the sociology of consumption.

Author : Yiannis Gabriel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Consumer behavior
ISBN : OCLC:1200623775

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Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335224166

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Work, Consumerism and the New Poor by Zygmunt Bauman Pdf

Reviewers’ comments on the first edition “Zygmunt Bauman presents a cogently argued and compelling thesis... an important book from a distinguished scholar, that adds a new dimension to the poverty debate.”British Journal of Sociology “It will be of great interest and value to students, teachers and researchers in sociology and social policy… [Bauman] provides a very forceful and sophisticated statement of the case; and a very well written one too. As a wide ranging analysis of our present discontents it is an admirable example of the sort of challenge which sociology at its best can offer to us and our fellow citizens to re-assess and re-think our current social arrangements.”Work, Employment and Society “This is a stylish and persuasive analysis of the transition between the age of the ‘society of producers’ to that of the ‘society of consumers’.”Political Studies It is one thing to be poor in a society of producers and universal employment; it is quite a different thing to be poor in a society of consumers, in which life projects are built around consumer choices rather than on work, professional skills or jobs. Where ‘being poor’ was once linked to being unemployed, today it draws its meaning primarily from the plight of a flawed consumer. This has a significant effect on the way living in poverty is experienced and on the prospects for redeeming its misery. Work, Consumerism and the New Poor traces this change over the duration of modern history. It makes an inventory of its social consequences, and considers how effective different ways of fighting poverty and relieving its hardships are. The new edition of this seminal work features: Updated coverage of key thinkers in the field Discussion of recent work on redundancy, disposability and exclusion Current thinking on the effects of capital flows on different countries and the changes on the shop floor through, for example, business process re-engineering New material on security and vulnerability Key reading for students and lecturers in sociology, politics and social policy, and those with an interest in contemporary social issues.

Author : Juliana Mansvelt
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 076197430X

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Geographies of Consumption by Juliana Mansvelt Pdf

An overview of the research into consumer behaviour and the use of space, including the internet, identity, connections through commodity chains, commercial culture and morality.

Author : Yiannis Gabriel,Tim Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Consumer behavior
ISBN : 1473924537

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The Unmanageable Consumer Ed. 3 by Yiannis Gabriel,Tim Lang Pdf

Examining the key Western traditions of thinking about and being a consumer, this 20th Anniversary Edition continues to explore 10 consumer models and encourages analysis of contemporary consumerism.

Author : Tad Skotnicki
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503627741

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The Sympathetic Consumer by Tad Skotnicki Pdf

When people encounter consumer goods—sugar, clothes, phones—they find little to no information about their origins. The goods will thus remain anonymous, and the labor that went into making them, the supply chain through which they traveled, will remain obscured. In this book, Tad Skotnicki argues that this encounter is an endemic feature of capitalist societies, and one with which consumers have struggled for centuries in the form of activist movements constructed around what he calls The Sympathetic Consumer. This book documents the uncanny similarities shared by such movements over the course of three centuries: the transatlantic abolitionist movement, US and English consumer movements around the turn of the twentieth century, and contemporary Fair Trade activism. Offering a comparative historical study of consumer activism the book shows, in vivid detail, how activists wrestled with the broader implications of commodity exchange. These activists arrived at a common understanding of the relationship between consumers, producers, and commodities, and concluded that consumers were responsible for sympathizing with invisible laborers. Ultimately, Skotnicki provides a framework to identify a capitalist culture by examining how people interpret everyday phenomena essential to it.

Author : Martyn J. Lee
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 063120797X

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The Consumer Society Reader by Martyn J. Lee Pdf

The Consumer Society Reader is the most substantial collection of classic and contemporary readings on consumption and consumer society for students of cultural studies and sociology of culture. From Karl Marx to Jean Baudrillard, the volume introduces students and researchers to the topics, themes, and preoccupations of twentieth-century consumer culture.

Author : Olga Kravets,Pauline Maclaran,Steven Miles,Alladi Venkatesh
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781473998773

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The SAGE Handbook of Consumer Culture by Olga Kravets,Pauline Maclaran,Steven Miles,Alladi Venkatesh Pdf

The question of consumption emerged as a major focus of research and scholarship in the 1990s but the breadth and diversity of consumer culture has not been fully enough explored. The meanings of consumption, particularly in relation to lifestyle and identity, are of great importance to academic areas including business studies, sociology, cultural and media studies, psychology, geography and politics. The SAGE Handbook of Consumer Culture is a one-stop resource for scholars and students of consumption, where the key dimensions of consumer culture are critically discussed and articulated. The editors have organised contributions from a global and interdisciplinary team of scholars into six key sections: Part 1: Sociology of Consumption Part 2: Geographies of Consumer Culture Part 3: Consumer Culture Studies in Marketing Part 4: Consumer Culture in Media and Cultural Studies Part 5: Material Cultures of Consumption Part 6: The Politics of Consumer Culture

Author : Joel Stillerman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745696911

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The Sociology of Consumption by Joel Stillerman Pdf

The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach offers college students, scholars, and interested readers a state-of-the-art overview of consumption the desire for, purchase, use, display, exchange, and disposal of goods and services. The book’s global focus, emphasis on social inequality, and analysis of consumer citizenship offer a timely, exciting, and original approach to the topic. Looking beyond the U.S. and Europe, Stillerman engages examples from his and others’ research in Chile and other Latin American countries, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and East and South Asia to explore the interaction between global and local forces in consumption. The text explores the lived experience of being a consumer, demonstrating how social inequalities based on class, gender, sexuality, race, and age shape consumer practices and identities. Finally, the book uncovers the important role consumption has played in fueling local and international activism. This welcome new book will be ideal for classes on consumer culture across the social sciences, humanities, and marketing.

Author : Simmons, Richard,Powell, Martin
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847421821

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The consumer in public services by Simmons, Richard,Powell, Martin Pdf

This book challenges existing stereotypes about the 'consumer as chooser'. It shows how we must develop a more sophisticated understanding of consumers, examining their place and role as users of public services. The analysis shows that there are many different 'faces' of the consumer and that it is not easy to categorise users in particular environments. Drawing on empirical research, The consumer in public services critiques established assumptions surrounding citizenship and consumption. Choice may grab the policy headlines but other essential values are revealed as important throughout the book. One issue concerns the 'subjects' of consumerism, or who it is that presents themselves when they come to use public services. Another concerns consumer 'mechanisms', or the ways that public services try to relate to these people. Bringing these issues together for the first time, with cutting-edge contributions from a range of leading researchers, the message is that today's public services must learn to cope with a differentiated public. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of social policy and public administration. It will also appeal to policy-makers leading 'user-focused' public service reforms, as well as those responsible for implementing such reforms at the frontline of modern public services.

Author : Pasi Falk,Colin Campbell
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446238752

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The Shopping Experience by Pasi Falk,Colin Campbell Pdf

This shrewd and probing book seeks to theorize shopping as an autonomous realm. It avoids the reductionist characteristics of economics and marketing. At the same time it avoids the moralizing tone of many contemporary discussions of shopping and consumption. It also contains an appendix which gives a brief history and selected literature of shopping.