The consumer society reader / edited by Martyn J. Lee.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lee, Martyn J., 1961-
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2000.
Subjects:
Consumer behavior > Social aspects.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects.
Physical Description:xxvi, 325 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Estranged labour ; The fetishism of the commodity and its secret / Karl Marx
  • Beyond use value / Jean Baudrillard
  • Conspicuous consumption / Thorstein Veblen
  • The puzzle of modern consumerism / Colin Campbell
  • The uses of goods / May Douglas and Baron Isherwood
  • Introduction to distinction / Pierre Bourdieu
  • Lifestyle and consumer culture / Mike Featherstone
  • Object domains, ideology and interests / Daniel Mlller
  • Object as image: the Italian scooter cycle / Dick Hebidge
  • "Making do": uses and tactics / Michel de Certeau
  • Looking backwards / Don Slater
  • Assembling a new world of facts / Stuart Ewen
  • Was there love on the dole? / Gary Cross
  • A child's cartography / Sharon Zukin
  • The dependence effect / John Kenneth Galbraith
  • "Growthmanship" / Vance Packard
  • Textiles: the fabric of life / Ernest Dichter
  • A new language? / Jean Baudrillard
  • Aesthetic abstraction of the commodity: surface, package, advertising image / Wolfgang Fritz Haug
  • The bonding of media and advertising / William Leiss, Stephen Kline, and Sut Jhally
  • The characteristic mode of consumption of fordism / Michel Aglietta
  • Theorizing the transition / David Harvey
  • The politics of consumption / Frank Mort
  • The commodities of culture / John Fiske
  • Dupes and Guerrillas: the dialectics of cultural consumption / John Clarde
  • Sovereign consumption / Jim McGuigan
  • The promotional condition of contemporary culture / Andrew Wernick.