New Forms of Consumption

Consumers, Culture, and Commodification
Herausgeber: Gottdiener, Mark

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

New forms of consumption such as those facilitated by cyberspace, themed environments, the commodification of sex, and the increasing role of leisure in society all play new and interesting roles in daily life that combine consumerism with the most contemporary social forms. This book examines the recent ways in which consumerism has been studied with special emphasis given to these and other newly emerging topics.

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Produktdetails

• Postmodern Social Futures
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780847695706
• ISBN-10: 0847695700
• Artikelnr.: 20996154

Autorenporträt

Edited by Mark Gottdiener - Contributions by Jorge Arditi; Matthew D. Bramlett; Karen A. Cerulo; Daniel Thomas Cook; E Melanie DuPuis; Mark Gottdiener; Eugene Halton; Beverly Mullings; Minjoo Oh; Seth Ovadia; George Ritzer; Chris Rojek; Cotten Seiler; Noa

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Theoretical Perspectives Chapter 3 Approaches
to Consumption: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives Chapter 4 The
Process of McDonaldization is not Uniform nor are Its Settings, Consumers,
or the Consumption of Its Goods and Services Chapter 5 Mass Tourism or the
Re-enchantment of the World? Issues and Contradictions in the Study of
Travel Chapter 6 Shopping and Postmodernism: Consumption, Production,
Identity and the Internet Part 7 Case Studies Chapter 8 Brain-Suck Chapter
9 The Rise of "The Toddler" as Subject and as Merchandising Category in the
1930's Chapter 10 The Body and the Country: A Political Ecology of
Consumption Chapter 11 Packaging Violence: Media, Story Sequencing and the
Perception of Right and Wrong Chapter 12 The Commodifcation of Sports: The
Example of Personal Seat Liscenses in Professional Football Chapter 13 The
Commodification of Rebellion: Rock Culture and Consumer Capitalism Chapter
14 Fantasy Tours: Exploring the Global Consumption of Carribean Sex
Toursims Chapter 15 Commodification and Theming of the Sacred: Changing
Patterns of Tourist Consumption in the "Holy Land" Chapter 16 The
Consumption of Space and the Spaces of Consumption